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CPM holds rally over farmers’ suicide, lambasts Trinamul

4 February 2012

SONARPUR, 4 FEB: South 24-Parganas district CPI-M today held a rally at Bhangar in protest against farmers' suicide in Bengal since Trinamul came to power in the state eight months ago.
CPI-M cadres carried 32 cots in which bodies are carried for funeral from Ghatakpukur to Chandaneswar in the Bhangar police station area. Party supporters, led by Mr Abdur Rezzak Mollah, the former minister for land and land reforms, Mr Kanti Ganguly, the former minister for Sunderban Development affairs and Mr Sujan Chakraborty, the district secretary of the CPI-M, marched around 10 km in the area. Coming down heavily on the chief minister Mr Mollah said: “She claimed those who committed suicide were not farmers. Now she has to explain who were they? Were they businessmen, computer engineers or involved in any other profession?” The CPI-M leadership announced that the party had decided to organise rallies, street-corner and mass meetings against burning questions like death of farmers and neo-natal babies in every district of the state.
However, Mr Kanti Ganguly had explained the visit of the chief minister at Gosaba as a tour of the Sunderbans and said the present government would fail to start the development work in the islands of Sunderbans. “During our time we had constructed 23 bridges over the rivers of Sunderbans and the Centre had sanctioned more than Rs 5,000 crore for the repair of the embankments damaged by Aila. But the Trinamul-led Zilla Parishad had completely failed to utilise the money,” he added. sns