06-22-2007, 10:05 PM
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Well, that is one way to make WB on level with other indian states, the better way is ofcourse to throw out the commies from WB!
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> Replicate West Bengal model at Centre, says Karat
Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI: <b>Leaders of the Left parties on Thursday asserted that efforts to replicate the West Bengal model on a national scale would emerge through concerted and united efforts.
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âWe cannot leave with West Bengal. Democratic and progressive parties would have to work together and the Left has to work unitedly. Through joint struggles and agitations we have to work â¦â Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Prakash Karat said at a function here to mark the completion of 30 years of the Left Front Government in West Bengal.
He said the Left Front Government was the target of all-round attack and disclosed that when the coalition first came to power in 1977, the CPI (M) did not think it could last so long, primarily on account of the historical role of the Congress Governments at the Centre that dismissed the E.M.S. Namboodiripad-led communist Government in Kerala.
He said as early as this year, the Bharatiya Janata Party had demanded the dismissal of the West Bengal Government following developments in Nandigram. âWe have to be cautious and we know the character of the Trinamool Congress, the Congress and the BJP. All of them joined hands against us recently in panchayat, local bodies elections,â Mr. Karat said.
The CPI (M) general secretary said the State Government would pursue the policy of balanced development by attracting investments from big industrial houses like the Tatas and also strengthen the working class movement. Both would go together.
CPI general secretary A.B. Bardhan too felt it was time for West Bengal to industrialise and conceded that the Government did make some mistakes. He, however, said the Left Front has to learn from the mistakes and move ahead since it had reached the maximum growth on the basis of agriculture. âDuring one phase there was de-industrialisation in West Bengal, now it is time to industrialise,â he said adding that Kolkata and its surrounds was ranked second after Mumbai for having industries five decades ago.
That the people of the State voted back the Left Front Government for the last three decades clearly discounts the âanti-incumbencyâ theory because of which it continues to work for the welfare of the toiling classes.
All India Forward Bloc general secretary Debabrata Biswas said it was time the Left parties worked for a national alternative and said united struggle would be required to turn this into a reality.
He criticised some Left intellectuals and others for pouring scorn on the Left Frontâs functioning and charged that the aim was to destabilise the Government.
Revolutionary Socialist Party leader and MP Abani Roy too felt that the Left parties should take responsibility and lead in forming a Government at the Centre and elsewhere and these parties alone represented the working class and were committed to upholding their interest.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> Well, that is one way to make WB on level with other indian states, the better way is ofcourse to throw out the commies from WB!
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> Replicate West Bengal model at Centre, says Karat
Special Correspondent
NEW DELHI: <b>Leaders of the Left parties on Thursday asserted that efforts to replicate the West Bengal model on a national scale would emerge through concerted and united efforts.
</b>
âWe cannot leave with West Bengal. Democratic and progressive parties would have to work together and the Left has to work unitedly. Through joint struggles and agitations we have to work â¦â Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Prakash Karat said at a function here to mark the completion of 30 years of the Left Front Government in West Bengal.
He said the Left Front Government was the target of all-round attack and disclosed that when the coalition first came to power in 1977, the CPI (M) did not think it could last so long, primarily on account of the historical role of the Congress Governments at the Centre that dismissed the E.M.S. Namboodiripad-led communist Government in Kerala.
He said as early as this year, the Bharatiya Janata Party had demanded the dismissal of the West Bengal Government following developments in Nandigram. âWe have to be cautious and we know the character of the Trinamool Congress, the Congress and the BJP. All of them joined hands against us recently in panchayat, local bodies elections,â Mr. Karat said.
The CPI (M) general secretary said the State Government would pursue the policy of balanced development by attracting investments from big industrial houses like the Tatas and also strengthen the working class movement. Both would go together.
CPI general secretary A.B. Bardhan too felt it was time for West Bengal to industrialise and conceded that the Government did make some mistakes. He, however, said the Left Front has to learn from the mistakes and move ahead since it had reached the maximum growth on the basis of agriculture. âDuring one phase there was de-industrialisation in West Bengal, now it is time to industrialise,â he said adding that Kolkata and its surrounds was ranked second after Mumbai for having industries five decades ago.
That the people of the State voted back the Left Front Government for the last three decades clearly discounts the âanti-incumbencyâ theory because of which it continues to work for the welfare of the toiling classes.
All India Forward Bloc general secretary Debabrata Biswas said it was time the Left parties worked for a national alternative and said united struggle would be required to turn this into a reality.
He criticised some Left intellectuals and others for pouring scorn on the Left Frontâs functioning and charged that the aim was to destabilise the Government.
Revolutionary Socialist Party leader and MP Abani Roy too felt that the Left parties should take responsibility and lead in forming a Government at the Centre and elsewhere and these parties alone represented the working class and were committed to upholding their interest.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->