Thursday, March 31, 2011

National Leaders capaign for CPIM candidates in Assam


CPIM politburo member Brinda Karat on Tuesday urged the people to vote for the 17 party candidates contesting polls in Assam and give them a chance to serve the people, asking them to vote for honest candidates.

"We are not here to form a government but to serve the people. Do not go by parties but look at the integrity of the candidates who can serve you," Karat said at a public rally organised to campaign for party candidate Robin Tamuly.

CPI(M) candidates can bring about a change in the constituencies and people should vote for their integrity and honest intentions, she said.

"Corruption has become synonymous with Congress and the people of Assam have got its taste in the multi-crore North Cachar Hills funds diversion scam and it is time that honest candidates are elected," she said. She also alleged that there was no development or progress during the BJP rule. "Therefore, we urge the people not to go by the prospects of the parties but look at the individuals who can help them," Karat added. 

 Sitharam Yechury flays anti people policies of Congress Governments


Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Priority for public weal - CPI (M) Tamilnadu Election Manifesto


The Communist Party of India (Marxist) promises to accord priority only to the public weal and adhere to the political culture of honesty and integrity. 

The manifesto of the party, released in connection with the coming elections to the Tamil Nadu Assembly by its State secretary G. Ramakrishnan here on Sunday, focused on major issues like unprecedented price rise and corruption. It would also strive to get the Mullaperiyar Dam level raised to 142 ft and find a solution to various river waters issues. And it would demand early implementa-tion of the Sethusamudram project, which had been virtually shelved. 

Referring to the 2G spectrum allocation scandal, it said not only former Telecom Minister A. Raja, who happened to be a DMK member, but also the family members of Chief Minister and DMK president M. Karunanidhi were accused of involvement in the scam. Besides, the manifesto lambasted the DMK government for the alleged breakdown in law and order.The acute power shortage in the State was crippling agriculture and industry. And the DMK Government had come out with no sensible plan to tide over the power situation. Hence, the CPI (M) promised steps to protect the small and minor industries, fight against FDI in retail sector, ensure food security as a fundamental right, remove power cuts and fight criminalisation of politics. It would demand filling up all the vacancies in government and public sector and a minimum remuneration of Rs.10,000 per month, providing unemployment dole of Rs.1,000 per month, and granting Rs.1000 as pension for those in the unorganised sector.

The party would also strive to get regularised all those employed in the public and government sectors. It would try to get Rs.1,500 per quintal of paddy and 3,000 per tonne of sugarcane. It would urge the government to write off all agricultural loans and ensure agricultural inputs were available at subsidised rates. Besides, it would try to get implemented all the land reforms laws , distribute fallow land of the Government among the poor and agricultural labour and demand a minimum employment for 150 days a year with a minimum daily wage of Rs.250.

Among others in its manifesto, the Left party said it will strive against the “devastating” policies of globalisation, privatisation and liberalisation and work for people-oriented policies. 

Meanwhile, CPI (M) senior leaders — general secretary Prakash Karat, politburo member Sitaram Yechury and Brinda Karat, will campaign at various places in Tamil Nadu on different dates, Mr. Ramakrishnan said.

(Courtesy : The Hindu)

Left Parties memorandum to EC

A Left parties delegation consisting of Nilotpal Basu (Central Secretariat member, CPI-M), D. Raja (MP & National Secretary, CPI), S. P. Tiwari (Central Committee member, AIFB), Dharmendra Verma (Central Committee member, AIFB) and Abani Roy (MP & Secretary, RSP) met the Election Commission of India on March 28, 2011 and submitted the following memorandum.

Dear Sir,

We are constrained to draw your attention to the very serious development where a Member of Parliament from the Trinamul Congress, Shri K. D. Singh, was carrying cash amounting to Rs. 57 lakhs. He was reported to have been traveling on March 24 in a private airplane from Delhi to Guwahati which is a poll-bound state and the Trinamul Congress is contesting a large number of seats.

We are also surprised by his reported claim that this money was legitimately drawn from a bank for his own business purposes. We are unaware of business activities in the present times which require such a major volume of cash movement. We are also surprised that the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) who held Mr. Singh and his associates along with the money and allowed to let him go. And, most importantly, the money itself was not confiscated. We think that this is rather strange because even if the source is known, nobody can vouch for the manner of end use.

In such circumstances, we would like to draw your attention to the ongoing discussion with the EC bilaterally, as well as, in the all-party meeting on the subject of use of money power as a growing electoral malpractice. It is in the last all-party meeting on March 9, 2011 that the Hon’ble Commission had observed that any press report about alleged possible misconduct regarding electoral malpractices will be taken suo moto cognizance of and enquiry will be ordered forthwith.

Therefore, monitoring of the trail of the money found in the possession of Shri Singh and a thorough enquiry of his whereabouts and activities is urgently called for.

We hope that the EC will act urgently on this very serious development and redeem its commitment of ensuring elections uncontaminated by money power.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

CPIM Leaders calls off fast


Communist Party of India (Marxist) State secretary B.V. Raghavulu and three other senior leaders called off their six-day-old fast on Tuesday. The decision follows a meeting between Mr. Raghavulu and Ministers P. Satyanarayana and P. Balaraju at Gandhi Hospital where the CPI (M) leaders had been lodged after being shifted from the hunger strike camp, a couple of days ago.

The Ministers who met the CPI (M) leaders at the behest of Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy reportedly conceded a few demands and assured that they would convene a meeting of experts on March 25 for discussions on some more demands. Mr. Raghavulu said there were demands on which there was no clarity yet. But he had to call off the fast “to give some time to the government” on the demands it had accepted. “We should also respect the views of intellectuals including some former IAS officers who are with us throughout,” he said.

Mr. Raghavulu and three other leaders S. Veeraiah, Midiam Babu Rao and G. Nagaiah were offered coconut water by party's Polit Bureau member Brinda Karat at the culmination of the party's Chalo Assembly rally.
 

Addressing a large gathering at the Indira Park, Mr. Raghavulu said the agitation was a partial success. “We consider the government's initiative as a step forward, but are prepared to wage struggles if the government is found wanting in implementation of its assurances,” he said. He faulted the government for its efforts to use force to scuttle protests which was a democratic right of the aggrieved sections. Any attempt to deny people their rights would further strengthen their resolve to intensify their agitations.

The CPI (M), he said, would forthwith work for building of a broader platform involving all stakeholders, including political parties and mass organisations, to take up issues of the common man. The party had no objection to extend its support as and when other parties came forward to champion burning issues. Ms. Karat complimented the party leaders for their struggle which made the government to debate on the problems faced by the SCs and STs in the Assembly. The assurances given by the government indicated a partial success of the agitation and the party should be geared up for taking up more intensive struggles in future.
 (Courtesy : The Hindu)

CPIM candidates list forTamil Nadu Assembly polls announced

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Tuesday announced the names of its candidates for the 12 Assembly constituencies allotted to it by the AIADMK-led alliance for the April 13 elections.
The list includes three sitting MLAs — K. Balabharathi, P. Dilli Babu and R. Leema Rose and four State secretariat members. The names of the candidates were finalised at the CPI (M)'s State Committee meeting held at Thiruchirappalli.

The constituencies and candidates are as follows: Perambur- A. Soundararajan; Chidambaram – K. Balakrishnan ; Tirupur (South) – K. Thangavel; Periyakulam (reserved) – A. Lasar; Dindigul – K. Balabharathi; Harur (reserved) P. Dilli Babu; Vilavancode – R. Leema Rose; Vikkravandi – R. Ramamurthy ; Palayamkottai – V. Pazhani; Madurai South R. Annadurai; Maduravoyal – K. Beem Rao and Keezhvelur (reserved) Nagai Maali alias V.P. Mahalingam.

Announcing the candidates' names State secretary G. Ramakrishnan said that all 12 candidates had worked for the party and had been consistently raising issues concerning people. The party's Perambur constituency candidate A. Soundararajan is also the CITU State general secretary. K. Balakrishnan is the Kisan Sabha State president. A. Lasar is also State president of the Agricultural Labourers Union. Ms. Balabharathi is the party State committee member. Another sitting MLA P. Dilli Babu is the party's Dharmapuri district secretary. R. Leema Rose is the party's Nagercoil district secretariat member. The CPI (M) has fielded a Dalit, K. Beem Rao, from Maduravoyal Assembly constituency, Mr. Ramakrishnan said.

A Lazer

A Sounderrajan

V Palani


Ramamoorthi

Bala Barathi

Thangavelu

Nagai Mali

Bheem Rao

Leema Rose

K Balakrishnan

Annadurai

Dilli Babu
 Photos : Gavaskar Theekathir

Monday, March 21, 2011

IXth Party Congress of Lao People's Revolutionary Party


The 9th National Congress of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) was held from 16th March to 20th March in Vientiane with the participation of 576 delegates representing more than 191,700 party members nationwide. The 9 th Party Congress of Lao peoples Revolutionary Party (LPRP), unanimously reelected Mr Choummaly Sayasone as the Secretary General.
The 9 th Party Congress was wrapped with great achievements, which unanimously approved the resolution of the 9 th Party Congress and a new batch of LPRP Politburo member (11 members) and LPRP CC members (61 members) and an amended statute. The congress took place under the theme:"Enhancing cohesive solidarity of the Lao nation and unity within the Party, upholding the leadership role and capacity of the Party, Devising breakthrough approach for the implementation of the renovation policy, Creating solid basis for lifting our nation from underdevelopment by 2020, and Advancing further towards Socialism destination".
Former Party General Secretary Khamtay Siphandone and the state and government leaders as well as members of the diplomatic corps and some international organizations also attended the opening session of the congress. 

In the opening speech, Politburo member and Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong expressed limitless gratitude and respectful commemoration to late beloved President Kaysone Phomvihane who found the Lao Peoples Army, Lao People's Revolutionary Party, a new regime and starting the principle based renovation policy in the Lao PDR. Comrade Thongsing Thammavong noted that the Congress took place at an important time, when the country received a great number of achievements in the cause of national defence and construction made in the past 35 years.
The years from 2011 to 2015 are a very important period for Laos, as the Party works towards achieving the millennium development goals in 2015, and creating the foundation for Laos to graduate from least developed country status by 2020.
To achieve these goals, the Party has set a target for economic growth of at least 8 percent per year over the next five years and annual per capita income of US$1,700, dropping household poverty to less than 10 percent and eliminating illiteracy among 99 percent of the Lao multi-ethnic people aged 15-24 years.The Party's goals also include annual rice production of 4.2 million tonnes and increasing tourist arrivals to 2.8 million per year to increase tourism revenue. 
The Party also gives priority to integrating Laos with the rest of the region and world as Asean will become a single market and production base in 2015, allowing member nations, both old and new, to integrate their economies and address development disparities.
Choummaly Sayasone
Party General Secretary Choummaly Sayasone presented the VIII Party Central Committee's report at the opening session, while Mr. Somsavat Lengsavad, Politburo member and head of the Secretariat for the IX Party Congress presented the Seventh five year socio-economic development plan ( 2011-2015). The five day congress will considered and approved the political report of the VIII Party Central Committee to the IX Party Congress, the Seventh five year socio-economic development plan ( 2011-2015), and the amended rule of the Party.

Party delegates donate 740m kip for Japan relief effort
Delegates of the 9th National Congress of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party have donated more than 740 million kip (over US$90,000) to help Japan as the country and its people face ongoing impacts of the recent catastrophic earthquake and tsunami.
The donations were received at the Party Central Committee Office in Vientiane after the External Relations Committee of the Party announced last week that it was accepting public donations as part of international humanitarian aid efforts by the Party and Lao people to assist Japan

A K Gopalan: From Satygrahi To Revolutionary


March 22 - AKG Memorial Day

Manini Chatterjee


A K GOPALAN, a foremost mass leader of the communist movement in the country, was also a dedicated soldier in India’s freedom struggle against British rule. His transformation from a satyagrahi to a revolutionary is a fascinating story and in a microcosm reveals, as few individual experiences can, the strengths and weaknesses of the Mahatma Gandhi-led national movement. It shows how the movement galvanised and politicised a whole section of idealistic youth in the fight against imperialism but stopped short of taking up the demands of the mass of exploited workers and peasants – leading men of action and compassion like AKG to embrace revolutionary Marxism. Thus it was that A K Gopalan who spent many a year in British jails fighting for the country’s freedom, was still behind bars on August 15, 1947, this time at the behest of free India’s Congress rulers.


A K Gopalan, or AKG as he is universally known, was born on October 1, 1904 in a reasonably well-to-do Nair family in North Malabar. His father and brother, both of whom were active in the community and took an interest in social reform and education, influenced AKG’s nascent interest in public life from an early age. Though he did not complete his formal education, he started out life as a primary school teacher, a job he enjoyed and was good at. He taught for seven years even as he was increasingly drawn to the national movement whose main activity at that time was propagation of khadi and boycott of foreign goods.


PERIOD OF FERMENT

And then came a period of national ferment. The year was 1930. The Congress had adopted a resolution demanding full independence a year ago. There was a deep crisis in the world capitalist economy. The Indian middle class was being drawn into the mass struggle. Gandhi embarked on his famous Dandi march, electrifying Congress workers all over the country. In Kerala, a jatha was taken out from Calicut to Payyannoor under the leadership of K Kelappan. Receptions were organised all along the route. AKG organised such a mass ovation at a place called Chovva. The jatha was a thrilling experience, the speeches truly inspiring. It proved a turning point in his life. In his autobiography In The Cause Of The People, AKG wrote: “I could not sleep that night, for a conflict between two streams of thought fought itself through my mind. My conscience asked me to forsake everything and join the struggle. This meant bidding farewell to my people and incurring the strong displeasure of my dear father and members of my family. My mother and family would suffer and be deprived of luxuries and comforts. Possibly they would have to live in dependence on others and bear their ill- treatment. I might lose my job and suffer a variety of hardships. On the other hand, I would have the satisfaction that I had fought for the freedom of the people who shuddered under the weight of oppression and who indulged in self-annihilation, loot, robbery and murder out of any inability to sustain themselves. I would be a proud son of mother India who had taken up cudgels to fight for her freedom. Such was the gist of my thought.”


The freedom fighter in him won. He resigned his job, left his family and went secretly from Calicut to Cannanore to offer Satyagraha. He was arrested and jailed the same day – the first of innumerable jail terms. He was shifted from Cannanore jail to Vellore jail, from B class prisoner to A class, and saw firsthand how “ it was a comfortable life for one section and misery for the other.” He instinctively reacted against this class division but a full understanding was to crystallise later. Following the Gandhi-Irwin pact in 1932 the satyagrahis were released from jail to a hero’s welcome.


Out of jail, AKG devoted himself to the Congress movement – travelling miles upon miles to distant villages, picketing taverns and shops selling imported cloth, and addressing hundreds of small and large meetings to draw the common people into the movement. It was a hard life. The Congress had no organisation and little funds. There was not even money to pay for bus fare. AKG recalls walking 25-30 miles every day and going without food for days on end while spreading the message of freedom and hoisting the national flag in far flung hamlets. As he notes in his autobiography: “For want of a change of clothes to wear, I wore the same clothes for 10 or 15 days at a time. Ignorant of our hardship, the fashionable rich used to say, ‘These fellows are dirty. You can smell the stench when they come close.’ This was indeed true. But it was not our fault. It was the stench of the sorry state of our country. ‘Until the Congress became a people’s organisation and until we were accepted by the general public as friends, such hardships were unavoidable.”


TEMPLE ENTRY AGITATION

Though relentlessly active in the picketing activities that marked the Gandhian satyagraha of that time, AKG was beginning to question the efficacy of the method which inspired middle class youth in their thousands but left the poor unmoved. It was at this time that the Congress decided to start a struggle against untouchability and other social evils. At the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) meeting, Kelappan moved a resolution on starting a temple entry satyagraha. Some Congressmen argued that it would divert attention away from the political struggle. But AKG fully backed the resolution and “was happy that a struggle against die-hard conservatism was in the offing.” He was elected captain of the satyagraha volunteers. He led a march of harijans on a public road at a place called Kandoth near Payyannoor. Till then, harijans were not allowed to walk on that road because it was near a temple. As he led the procession, a mob of men and women rushed forward and brutally beat up AKG till he was unconscious. He recalls: “This was the first physical attack I had faced in my political life. But there was the satisfaction that the “ Kandoth assault” found a prominent place in news coverage. It was the best propaganda for the Guruvayoor temple entry satyagraha. The incident opened the eyes of the public. District Board authorities came to inspect the place. They put up a board that all had the right to use the road.”


AKG then plunged into the Guruvayoor temple entry satyagraha, leading a group of volunteers on foot all the way from Cannanore to Guruvayoor. They addressed hundreds of public meetings en route, and for the first time the poorest of the poor, the harijan youth, were drawn into a Congress-led agitation. Volunteers from all over Kerala set up camps at the temple gates and the satyagraha had a huge impact throughout India. But the temple owners remained unmoved. In the meantime, the British authorities were unnerved by the rapid spread of the national movement and in January 1932 decided to crack down. Congress leaders throughout the country were arrested and among them was AKG. He was sentenced to six months rigorous imprisonment.


TORTURED IN JAIL

This second term in jail was very different. The authorities were far more brutal, and the prisoners were routinely beaten and kicked. But it was also a time when AKG met many revolutionaries and debated many political issues including the implications of the Russian revolution. AKG was considered “the cause of all the trouble” in Cannanore jail and was soon transferred to Cuddalore jail where he was first put among the insane prisoners. He recalls: “I was in tears the moment I saw the place and thoroughly shaken up. Yes, I was a mad man to officialdom. It may be madness in the eyes of imperialists to work for the independence of the country of one’s birth. There are many types of madness. I am proud to say that I am a ‘political lunatic.’ It is my wish that this madness does not disappear as long as oppression remains in the world.” After going on hunger strike which lasted six days, he was finally shifted to another room.


The six months in jail with its unspeakable brutalities left him physically broken. But not in spirit. He impatiently brushed aside the advice that he must rest. As he wrote later, “Rest! I could not even think of it. As a dedicated campaigner for freedom how could I think of rest when the entire land was echoing with the sound of lathicharges, when thousands of people were entering the battle arena and when a determined struggle was in progress?”


And he returned full fledged to agitation – defying the police, organising village conferences, addressing meetings, and resuming his duties as satyagraha captain at Guruvayoor. When the satyagraha started flagging, Kelappan began a fast to force the opening of the temple. It was to have a nationwide impact, and AKG was among those who crisscrossed Kerala, covering 1000 miles on foot, to propagate temple entry. Kelappan, however, at Gandhiji’s request called off the fast on the tenth day.


It was not long before AKG was arrested for the third time and sent yet again to Cannanore jail. The jail records had him down as a “dangerous prisoner” and he was soon moved to Bellary jail as a C class political prisoner. The conditions were barbaric. He was physically chained, made to pound flour and kept in solitary confinement. To protest against this unbearable treatment, AKG went on fast and was force-fed through the nose. Finally, he was transferred to Vellore as a B class prisoner. He was released at the end of 1933.


TO WARDS SOCIALISM

It was in Vellore jail that AKG began to lose heart in Gandhian satyagraha and ahimsa as a means towards a genuine liberation. These thoughts became a conviction when he came out jail and saw the civil disobedience movement slowly fizzle out. In AKG’ s own words: “Why is that struggles waged for two and a quarter years with remarkable courage, intelligence and magnificent self-dedication were a failure? …According to leaders like Babu Rajendra Prasad, the people were ready for sacrifice – to go to jail, to under go brutality and hardship – but were not ready to suffer financial loss. That was why the struggle did not succeed. According to them, the struggle failed as the government realised this and confiscated property and imposed heavy fines — this frightened away some. However, most of the people of India do not have wealth to hoard or lose. It is they who should be in the forefront of the freedom struggle. Their only assets are their bodies; they have nothing to lose so they are ready for sacrifice. They do not suffer in the freedom struggle even a percentage of their suffering in daily life. Why then did they not participate in the struggle fully?”


There were many others thinking along these lines and they were to form the Congress Socialist Party (CSP) in Kerala after 1934. The question that bothered them was the absence of workers and peasants in the national movement. Instead of poring into books for answers, AKG decided to study the living conditions of two peasant families. He realised that over the years, the landlords had deceitfully expropriated the land belonging to the poor peasant. ‘Land to the tiller’ was not an abstract slogan but the essence of justice. His close study of the peasant families convinced him that workers and peasants, who had nothing to lose, were the only class which “had the stamina and motivation necessary for the leadership of the freedom struggle and to undergo the attendant suffering. As it was, they suffered atrocities from capitalists and feudal landlords. There was no doubt in my mind that freedom would be impossible without these people in the forefront of the struggle.”


The CSP too concentrated on this class, particularly the industrial workers. AKG, naturally, took to this task with the fervour and passion that marked all his activities. He learned to form unions, organise strikes, and educate workers. These early socialists made mistakes (“we did not know how to conduct a strike,” he candidly admits) but quickly learnt from them. AKG immersed himself wholly in the lives of the workers — eating their diet, speaking their dialect, sharing their miseries, and playing with their children, telling stories to their grannies. Over the next few years, AKG participated and led practically every strike that was to take place in Kerala. Cotton, coir, beedi, tile, soap, municipal service – there was not an industry where the socialists were not involved in organising the workers, and AKG was there everywhere. As he describes it: “The moment a strike was known to have begun, I would rush there. When the strike ended, I moved to another place. To raise strike funds, to enroll volunteers, to detail work to them, to check up on it, to address public meetings, to intercept blacklegs going to work, to reason with them, to contact local people, to gain their help for the strike — this is what I was doing.”


DISILLUSIONED WITH CSP

AKG, as others in the CSP, saw his work among peasants and workers as part of the struggle against British rule. The only way to secure real freedom was to involve this vast section of the Indian people, and the only way to involve them was to raise their demands, fight for their rights against the capitalists and feudal landlords as well as the foreign rulers. They took up other causes too. One of the most remarkable was the mass movement organised against hunger and unemployment, especially the unemployment facing educated youth. A massive jatha travelled all through Kerala and crossed over to Madras. AKG played a leading role. He was once again sentenced and his fourth term in prison was spent in Trichinapalli. For a while, he had left the CSP but on being released from jail, he rejoined the party and was active on all fronts including the successful struggle against the rulers of Travancore. In Kerala, the socialists dominated the Congress and their sustained propaganda and agitation work among the ordinary people made a big difference. According to AKG, “The Congress Socialist Party can deservedly take pride that it was able to strengthen the Congress and turn it into a mass organisation.”


As a member of the AICC, AKG attended the Haripura and Tripuri sessions of the Indian National Congress. Following the Tripuri session, he worked for three months in Bombay where he spent a lot of time with leaders of the Communist Party of India, then headquartered in Bombay, and participated in workers rallies. “This,” he recalls, “evoked in me a revulsion for the polices and programmes of the then leaders of the CSP. It also brought me closer to the Communist Party and strengthened my ties with its leaders”. When the Second World War broke out, AKG was abroad. He had gone to meet Malayali workers in Ceylon, Singapore, Malaya and Burma. He came back just in time attend the AICC session in Wardha. The session itself was disappointing; the role of the central CSP leaders even more so. Differences within the CSP with the advent of the war had intensified. The Marxists within their ranks felt stifled. Communists were thrown out of the party. And as a result, writes AKG, “People like me who had risen from the ranks of the nationalist struggle and joined the CSP got closer to communism and the leaders remained with Gandhism. The socialist parties of Malabar, Tamil Nadu, Orissa and other places started functioning as units of the Communist Party.”


UNDERGROUND AND JAIL BREAK

AKG returned to Malabar but since summons were pending against him, he was sent to work in Tamil Nadu. He worked in Trichinapalli among Southern Railway workers. He also organised secret meetings and study classes. It was a new life for him. In his autobiography, he notes, “From being a satyagrahi, a socialist and a dedicated public worker always willing to court imprisonment I had to switch over to underground work. I was not at all used to secret work. I had till then always worked in the public eye.” But in the Communist Party, he learnt the uses of underground work. “To put us in jail away from the public eye was imperialism’s need; to avoid arrest and to work was ours…. I found the very act of working underground to be a struggle against imperialism.”


For over a year he remained underground till he was arrested on March 24, 1941 and sent to the detenue camp in Vellore jail. It was from here that AKG made his celebrated escape. It is ironic that AKG who had suffered the worst kind of brutalities in his numerous jail terms finally resorted to jailbreak to get out of the benumbing luxuries that were bestowed on first class prisoners. The luxuries included: “Bread and coffee in the morning; at noon, full meals with ghee, curd and all; tea and tiffin at three o’clock; at seven in the evening, a full meal with meat; and finally a cup of milk at bed time. Each prisoner had a chair, an easy chair, a table, a shelf, a mattress, a pillow and four sheets. Every four or five prisoners had a servant (an ordinary prisoner) and linen. Weekly laundering, reading room, radio, tennis, volley ball, a bath twice daily, a feast on festive occasions, occasional dramatic performances, music concerts, made up our everyday living.”


AKG, however, did not care for any of these things. Hitler’s attack on USSR was changing the course of the war, and had led to fervent discussions among the Communists in India, both inside and outside jail. The freedom struggle was going through a decisive phase. AKG felt he must get out. On the night of September 25, 1941, AKG and a couple of others chiselled a hole through the wall of their cell and managed to escape. Life outside was very difficult but he finally managed to reach Kerala. Though many leaders including EMS were released from jail soon after, the police refused to withdraw charges against AKG. It was unsafe to remain in Kerala and so he went to North India, and did a variety of jobs in Kanpur while continuing with underground Communist Party work. He returned to Malabar when the 1946 elections were announced and was the Party’s candidate in Calicut. In face of the vicious anti-communist propaganda by the Congress at the time, he lost but within five years trounced the Congress and entered parliament in the first general elections held after independence.


While the Congress was busy negotiating the transfer of power, there was an outbreak of mass struggles all across India in the post-war period. AKG was active in all the struggles in his region – the Punnapra-Vayalar struggle, the beedi workers strike, the peasant revolt in Chirakkal. The Prakasam ministry in Madras did its best to suppress the struggle in Malabar and arrested the leaders.


AUGUST 15, 1947

On the occasion of Independence Day, the Madras government released all the political prisoners but AKG was not one of them. He was alone, inside jail, unable to celebrate the freedom he had so bravely fought for. His memoirs recall: “On August 14, 1947 I was in solitary confinement in the big Cannanore jail. There were no other detenue prisoners. I could not sleep at night. Cries of ‘ jai’ issued from all four corners of the jail. The echoes of slogans ‘Mahatma Gandhi ki jai’ and ‘Bharat Mata ki jai’ reverberated through the jail. The whole country was waiting for the celebration due after sunrise. How many among them had waited for years for this and fought for it and sacrificed their all in the struggle. I nurtured feeling of joy and sorrow. I was glad that the goal for which I had sacrificed all my youth and for which I was still undergoing imprisonment had been realised. But I was even now a prisoner, I had been imprisoned by Indians — by the Congress government, not by the British. Memories of the Congress from 1927 passed through my mind. I felt proud of the role I had played in the Congress movement in Kerala. A man who was secretary of the Kerala Congress and its president for some time and member of the AICC for a long time was celebrating August15 in jail!”


And yet celebrate he did. The next morning, he walked the length of the jail compound carrying a national flag that he had kept with him. The flag was hoisted from the roof where all the prisoners had gathered. AKG spoke to them of the meaning of freedom. And for the rest of his life, A K Gopalan remained true to the vision of his youth, fighting always and everywhere in the cause of the people.

Andhra Pradesh CPI(M) leaders continue indefinite fast in hospital



Communist Party of India (Marxist) State secretary B.V. Raghavulu and three State secretariat members of the party who are on indefinite fast on the issues of dalit and tribal welfare are continuing their indefinite fast at the Gandhi hospital where they are admitted. CPI state secretary K Narayana and other leaders called on Raghavulu, G Nagaiah, S Veeraiah and Midiam Babu Rao at the state-run Gandhi hospital here where they were admitted.

Com. Raghavulu along with former MP Midiam Babu Rao, G. Nagaiah and S. Veeraiah were forcibly lifted from the fasting venue Indira Park late last night and moved to Gandhi Hospital. The leaders, however, rejected the doctors' plea to allow them to administer saline or any other fluids.

Police shifted the fasting leaders last night from Indira Park where they have been on indefinite fast from March 17.

Condemning the forcible shifting of the leaders, several other CPI(M) leaders today demanded that the government address the about 50 issues raised by the party or quit. CPI (M) central committee member V. Srinivasa Rao criticised the government for trying to suppress the agitation. The CPI(M) workers held protests in Hyderabad and elsewhere in the state against the police action. Raising slogans against the government and the “highhandedness” of the police, they burnt the effigy of the State government.

The CPI(M) and various people's organisations have called for a 'Chalo Hyderabad' on March 22.


Their demands include introduction of a special scheme for development of dalit and tribal localities, bringing in a special law for implementation of the sub-plan for SC/STs, effective implementation of forest rights act, lifting of cases registered by forest department against tribals, payment of compensation to those affected by Polavaram irrigation project and return of their lands.

Other demands include appointment of members and chairman for SC/ST commission, provision of identity cards for tenant farmers, regulation of micro-finance companies, and PDS ration cards for all eligible applicants.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Fast launched by CPI (M) leaders enters third day in Andhra Pradesh



CPI (M) State secretary B.V. Raghavulu has criticised Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy for his statement that there was no need for launching a fast as the demands pertaining to problems faced by Dalits had been referred to the departments concerned.

Mr. Raghavulu said that being the political head of the State, the Chief Minister was expected to take decisions on people's issues “not just transfer requests made on behalf of the people to the departments,” he said.

The indefinite fast launched by Mr. Raghavulu and three CPI (M) State secretariat members G. Nagaiah, S. Veeraiah and Midiam Babu Rao, entered the third day on Saturday. There was a steady stream of visitors comprising political leaders, mass organisations and employees unions to express solidarity with them. They included TDP senior leader K. Yerran Naidu, CPI State secretary K. Narayana and MLC Chukka Ramaiah.

Mr. Yerran Naidu criticised the government's “indifference” in taking steps to redress the long-pending demands.

“People are wondering whether there is an elected government in the State,” he said. The Congress would have to pay a price for ridiculing the agitation launched by the opposition parties to highlight the problems at the grass root level, he said.

Charging the government with “neglecting” the problems of SCs and ST, he alleged that the government, in its recent report, asked the Centre to do away with special component plan and tribal sub-plan in 40 odd departments.

Dr. Narayana said the government should be “ashamed” that problems continued to persist in Dalit and tribal hamlets in spite of several assurances and orders issued by the government.

While the government had not given funds and functions to the nodal agency constituted to oversee implementation of the SCP and TSP, the differences between the Forest and Revenue Departments were denying tribals their due.

(Courtesy : The Hindu)

CPIM constituencies in Tamil Nadu announced



CPIM State committee which met on Saturday in Chennai give a clarion call to defeat Anti-people DMK- Congress alliance in 234 constituencies in Tamil Nadu. CPIM state committee met under the chairmanship of CPIM Central Committe member T K Rangarajan also released the list of constituencies to be contested by CPIM. CPIM State Secretary presented the report. The candidate list will be published on March 22 at Thiruchirappalli. The list of constituencies to be contested are
  1. Dindugal (132)
  2. Keezhvelur (Reserved) (164)
  3. Perapur (12)
  4. Madurai South (192)
  5. Vilavancode (233)
  6. Thiruppur South (114)
  7. Palayamkottai (226)
  8. Periyakulam (Reserved) (199)
  9. Madhuraivayal (7)
  10. Arur (Reserved) (61)
  11. Chidambaram (158)
  12. Vikkiravandi (75)

Saturday, March 19, 2011

CPI(M) leaders in Andhra Pradesh on hungerstrike to press for demands



CPI(M)’s Andhra Pradesh state secretary B V Raghuvulu and three other leaders launched an indefinite fast in Hyderabad from March to press for about 50 demands concerning dalits, tribal community, and farmers.

Mr. Raghavulu, along with party state committee leaders G Nagaiah, S Veeraiah and Midiam Babu Rao, started the fast at Indira Park in Hyderabad. “We have requested the Chief Minister to implement our 50 demands. If there is no positive response from the government, we will intensify our struggle,” Mr. Raghavulu said.

The main demands are introduction of a special scheme for development of dalit and tribal localities, bringing in a special law for implementation of the sub-plan for SC/STs, effective implementation of forest rights act, lifting of cases registered by forest department against tribals, payment of compensation to those affected by Polavaram irrigation project and return of their lands.

The other demands include appointment of members and chairman for SC/ST commission, provision of identity cards for tenant farmers, regulation of micro-finance companies, and PDS ration cards for all eligible applicants.

On Friday 18th MarchTelugu Desam Party president N. Chandrababu Naidu has expressed solidarity with the leaders of Communist Party of India (Marxist) demanding the government to address various problems of people, including setting up a nodal agency to ensure total utilisation of allotted funds for Scheduled Castes Sub Plan (SCSP). Accompanied by several party legislators and leaders, Mr. Naidu visited the agitation camp on Friday and extended TDP's support to the protest taken up by State secretary of CPI (M) B.V. Raghavulu and party leaders M. Babu Rao, S. Veeraiah and G. Nagaiah. Speaking at the fast camp.

CPIM releases candidate list for Kerala polls


CPIM State Secretary Com. Pinarayi Vijayan released the list of CPIM candidates for the coming elections in Kerala at the party state headquarters in Trivandrum. CPIM will be contesting 93 constituencies of the total 140 as part of Left Democratic Front. Party has given 10 seats to women.

The following are the CPI(M) candidates and their constituencies:
C.H. Kunhambu (Manjeswaram), K. Kunhiraman (Uduma), K. Kunhiraman (Thrikkarippur), C. Krishnan (Payyannur), James Mathew (Taliparamba), T.V. Rajesh (Kalliassery), M. Prakasan Master (Azhikode), K.K. Narayanan (Dharmadam), E.P. Jayarajan (Mattannur), K.K. Shylaja (Peravur), Kodiyeri Balakrishnan (Thalassery), K.K. Lathika (Kuttiyadi), K. Kunhammed Master (Perambra), Purushan Kadalundi (Balussery), K. Dasan (Koyilandy), A. Pradeep Kumar (Kozhikode North), C.P. Musafar Ahamed (Kozhikode South), Elamaram Karim (Beypore), George M. Thomas (Thiruvambady) and M. Mehboob (Koduvally).

K. C. Kunhiraman (Mananthavady), E. A. Sankaran (Sulthan Bathery), P. A. Muhammed (Kalpetta), V. Ramesan (Wandoor), P. C. Noushad (Kondotty), V. Sasikumar (Perinthalmanna), Kadeeja Sathar (Mankada), E. Jayan (Tanur), P.P. Abdullakkutty (Tirur), P. Sreeramakrishnan (Ponnani), P. Mammikkutty (Thrithala), A. K. Balan (Tharoor), M. Chandran (Alathur), V. Chenthamarakshan (Nenmara), K. S. Saleekha (Shoranur), M. Hamsa (Ottappalam), K.V. Vijayadas (Kongad), K.K. Divakaran (Palakkad), V.S. Achuthanandan (Malampuzha), Babu M. Palissery (Kunnamkulam), K. Radhakrishnan (Chelakkara), Baby John (Manalur), K.V. Abdul Khader (Guruvayur), C. Ravindranath (Puthukkad), K.R. Vijaya (Irinjalakuda), B.D. Devassy (Chalakudy) and N.R. Balan (Wadakkancherry).

A.M. Yousuf (Aluva), Saju Paul (Perumbavoor), M. A. Surendran (Kunnathunad), S. Sarma (Vypeen), K. Chandran Pillai (Kalamassery), M.C. Josephine (Kochi), M.E. Hassainar (Thrikkakkara), C.M. Dinesh Mani (Thripunithura), M.J. Jacob (Piravom), C.V. Varghese (Idukki), S. Rajendran (Devikulam), K.K. Jayachandran (Udumbanchola), K. Suresh Kurup (Ettumanur), V.N. Vasavan (Kottayam), Suja Susan George (Puthuppally), B. Ekbal (Changanassery), A.M. Arif (Aroor), T.M. Thomas Isaac (Alappuzha), G. Sudhakaran (Ambalappuzha), C.K. Sadasivan (Kayamkulam), C.S. Sujatha (Chengannur), R. Rajesh (Mavelikara), Raju Abraham (Ranni), K.C. Rajagopal (Aranmula), M.S. Rajendran (Konni), Aysha Potty (Kottarakara), K. Rajagopal (Pathanapuram), M.A. Baby (Kundara), P.K. Gurudasan (Kollam), A.A. Rahim (Varkala), B. Sathyan (Attingal), Koliyakkode N. Krishnan Nair (Vamanapuram), Sheela Ramani (Kattakada), C. Ajayakumar (Kazhakuttam), V. Sivan Kutty (Nemom), R. Selvaraj (Neyyattinkara) and Anavoor Nagappan (Parassala).

The party has also announced seven independent candidates: They are: P. T. A. Rahim (Kunnamangalam), Sankaranarayanan (Vallikkunnu), Thomas Mathew (Nilambur), K. T. Jaleel (Thavanur), Sebastian Paul (Ernakulam), Joseph Sebastian (Thodupuzha) and Cherian Philip (Vattiyurkavu).

Announcement of the candidates for Poonjar and Chittor will be made later. CPI(M) State secretary Pinarayi Vijayan said there was no reason to doubt whether Mr. Achuthanandan would lead the alliance because he was the unquestioned leader of the party. “There need be no doubt or anxiety on that score. He is our unquestioned leader. Then how can there be a question whether he would be leading the party,” he asked.

The CPI(M) State secretary said the party needed nobody's recommendation to field Mr. Achuthanandan as he was no novice in electoral battles. The party had its procedures to follow and had fielded Mr. Achuthanandan observing all such procedures, he said. The party had also decided to field T.K. Gangadharan in the Mahe constituency of Puducherry.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Stop Jaitapur Project


The Polit Bureau calls for an immediate halt to the Jaitapur nuclear power project in Maharashtra. The local people have been totally opposed to the location of the plant in their area and refused to accept the forcible acquisition of their lands. A CPI(M) delegation which recently visited the area has confirmed this fact.
Given the crisis which has developed in some of the nuclear power reactors in Japan after the tsunami and the threat of a meltdown, it is imperative that the environmental clearance given to the project be withdrawn. The issue should be reexamined.
The Jaitapur power project is to be set-up with imported nuclear plants from the French company, Areva. These reactors based on the European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) technology have not been commissioned for operation anywhere in the world yet. There are questions about the reliability and safety of these new reactors which are also much more expensive. Both in France and Finland, the construction of these reactors have run into various difficulties.
The justifications being given about the EPR project at Jaitapur by the concerned authorities cannot be accepted. The safety and interests of the people of Jaitapur and the country should be paramount.

LDF Kerala releases Poll Manifesto 2011





The CPI(M)-led LDF in Kerala today promised to bring in a legislation to unearth the wealth hidden or stashed away by corrupt politicians and public figures, if voted to power again.

A Rs two per kg rice scheme for all, enhancement and expansion of welfare pensions, creation of 25 lakh jobs in non-farm sectors and increasing the state spending on infrastructure projects were some highlights of the LDF election manifesto released by Chief Minister Com. V S Achuthanandan today.

"The thrust of the manifesto is Kerala's development while ensuring justice and peace for all," LDF convener Vaikom Viswan said.

If voted to power, the LDF Government would amend the Lok Ayukta rules to provide information to public regarding the assets owned by public figures within and outside the country and to ensure transparent and corruption-free administration, he said.

Apart from the extension of Rs two per kg rice scheme to all sections, the manifesto promised to increase old age pension from Rs 400 to Rs 1000.

A populist promise in the manifesto is offer of a subsidy of Rs 20 per litre for kerosene for the weaker sections.

It also contained several schemes for women and children with the professed aim of making Kerala a "woman friendly" state by implementation of various empowerment schemes totaling Rs 7,500 crore.

The maternity leave with wage for women workers in unorganised sector would be increased to three months from the present one month.

All school children would be given free meals, uniforms and textbooks, it said. A welfare-cum-pension scheme for employees of places of worship of all religions will be introduced.

It said the operations of other-state lotteries would be contained while protecting Kerala state lottery.

On getting a fresh mandate, the LDF would achieve total electrification of the state in six months and 100 per cent per cent drinking water supply in five years.

(Courtesy : The New indian Express)

Left parties to contest 22 seats in Tamil Nadu


CPI(M) State secretary G. Ramakrishnan with AIADMK general Secretary J. Jayalalithaa signing the seat-sharing agreement Com.T.K. Rangarajan and Com Balakrishnan are also in the picture

Left parties and the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) arrived at seat-sharing agreements on Monday. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) will contest from 12 constituencies and the Communist Party of India (CPI), 10 seats.
CPI(M) state Secretary G Ramakrishnan and his CPI counterpart D Pandian had separate meetings with AIADMK General Secretary J Jayalalithaa at her Poes Garden residence and signed the agreements.

After firming up the agreement with AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa at her Poes Garden residence, CPI (M) State secretary G. Ramakrishnan said: “We will contest from 12 seats. We will work for the victory of the AIADMK alliance.” Both the leaders said that the list of the constituencies would be disclosed by Tuesday evening.


Monday, March 14, 2011

West Bengal left front announces candidates for assembly polls

FRESH BLOOD IN LEFT FRONT CANDIDATE LIST
149 candidates out of total 294 seats are new faces, said Biman Basu while declaring the candidates’ list of the Left Front for the forthcoming assembly election in West Bengal. The introduction of these new faces is nothing new in left tradition, added Basu, mntioning that the number was 134 in the previous assembly election. However, names for two seats have not been declared today.
Basu declared the candidate list today (13th March) after the state Left Front committee meeting. The meeting of the CPI (M) state committee held on 12th and 13th March. CPI (M), the largest party of the Left Front is going to contest in 210 seats, Forward Block is going to contest in 34 seats, RSP is going to contest in 23 seats, CPI is going to contest in 14 seats, Socialist Party is going to contest in 5 seats, DSP is going to contest in 2 seats, Marxist Forward Block is going to contest in 2 seats, RCPI in 2seats, BBC and RJD are going to contest in 1 seat each.
The candidate list represents all sections of the society. There are 46 female candidates in the list. In the previous assembly election it was 34. There is considerable representation of schedule caste and schedule tribes. In totality there are 84 constituencies reserved for SC/ST candidates. The Left Front has nominated 11 more such candidates (including 2 OBC candidates) from the unreserved general seats. The list also reads the name of 65 minority candidates, among them 57 candidates come from Muslim community.
Seven ministers are not going to contest elections. ‘But they would concentrate on organizational responsibilities and the left front workers do not hanker for being candidates’, added Biman Basu. Moreover he said the ministers themselves were not keen enough to contest the election either due to health hazards or increasing organizational responsibilities.
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee will be contesting from Jadavpur constituency, Nirupam Sen will be contesting from Burdwan South, Dr. Suryakanta Mishra from Narayangarh and Gautam Deb will be contesting from Dumdum.

Left Front Committee
West Bengal
Assembly Election- 2011
List of Candidates
CONST
NO
CONSTITUENCY
NAME
NAME OF CANDIDATE PARTY M/F NEW
1 Mekliganj (SC) Paresh Chandra Adhikari FB M
2 Mathabhanga (SC) Ananta Roy CPIM M
3 Coochbehar Uttar (SC) Nagen Roy FB M N
4 Coochbehar Dakshin Akshoy Thakur FB M
5 Sitalkuchi (SC) Biswanath Paramanik CPIM M N
6 Sitai (SC) Dipak Roy FB M N
7 Dinhata Udayan Guha FB M
8 Natabari Tamser Ali CPIM M
9 Tufanganj Dhananjoy Rava (ST) CPIM M N
10 Kumargram (ST) Dasarath Tirkey RSP M
11 Kalchini (ST) Benoy Bhusan Kerketta RSP M N
12 Alipurduars Kshiti Goswami RSP M
13 Falakata (SC) Rabindranath Burman CPIM M N
14 Madarihat (ST) Kumari Kujur RSP F
15 Dhupguri (SC) Mamata Roy CPIM F N
16 Maynaguri (SC) Ananta Deb Adhikari RSP M N
17 Jalpaiguri (SC) Gobinda Roy FB M
18 Rajganj (SC) Amulya Roy CPIM M N
19 Dabgram-Fulbari Dilip Singh CPIM M N
20 Mal (ST) Bulu Baraik CPIM M N
21 Nagrakata (ST) Sukhmoit Oraon CPIM F
22 Kalimpong to be announced later on CPI

23 Darjeeling K. B. Wattar CPIM M
24 Kurseong Dipa Chettry CPIM F N
25 Matigara-Naxalbari (SC) Jharen Roy CPIM M N
26 Siliguri Asoke Bhattacharya CPIM M
27 Phansidewa (ST) Chotton Kisku CPIM M
28 Chopra Anwarul Haque CPIM M
29 Islampur Syeda Farhat Afroz CPIM F
30 Goalpokhar Safiur Rahaman FB M N
31 Chakulia Ali Imran Ramz (Victor) FB M
32 Karandighi Gokul Roy (SC) FB M
33 Hemtabad (SC) Khagen Singha CPIM M
34 Kaliaganj (SC) Nanigopal Roy CPIM M
35 Raiganj Kiranmoy Nanda SP M
36 Itahar Sreekumar Mukherjee CPI M
37 Kushmandi (SC) Narmada Chandra Roy RSP M
38 Kumarganj Mafooza Khatun CPIM F
39 Balurghat Biswanath Chowdhury RSP M
40 Tapan (ST) Khara Soren RSP M
41 Gangarampur (SC) Nandalal Hazra CPIM M N
42 Harirampur Narayan Chandra Biswas CPIM M
43 Habibpur (ST) Khagen Murmu CPIM M
44 Gazole (SC) Gobinda Mondal CPIM M N
45 Chanchal Anzumanara Begam CPIM F
46 Harischandrapur Tajmul Hossain FB M
47 Malatipur Abdur Rahim Bakshi RSP M N
48 Ratua Sailen Sarkar CPIM M
49 Manikchak Ratna Bhattacharya CPIM F N
50 Maldaha (SC) Rahul Ranjan Das CPIM M N
51 English Bazar Samar Roy CPIM M
52 Mothabari Naimuddin Seikh CPIM M N
53 Sujapur Ketabuddin CPIM M
54 Baisnabnagar Biswanath Ghosh CPIM M
55 Farakka Abdus Salam CPIM M
56 Samserganj Toab Ali CPIM M
57 Suti Jane Alam Mian RSP M
58 Jangipur Purnima Bhattacharya CPIM F N
59 Raghunathganj Hasnat Khan RSP M
60 Sagardighi Ismail CPIM M N
61 Lalgola Yean Ali CPIM M N
62 Bhgawangola Chand Mohammad SP M
63 Raninagar Maksuda Begam FB F N
64 Murshidabad Bibhas Chakraborty FB M
65 Nabagram (SC) Kanai Mondal CPIM M N
66 Khargram (SC) Goutam Mondal CPIM M N
67 Burwan (SC) Benoy Sarkar RSP M N
68 Kandi Inal Haque CPI M N
69 Bharatpur Id Mohammad RSP M
70 Rejinagar Sirajul Islam Mondal RSP M N
71 Beldanga Md. Refatullah RSP M
72 Baharampur Tarit Bramhachari RSP M N
73 Hariharpara Insar Ali CPIM M
74 Nowda Jayanta Biswas RSP M
75 Domkal Anisur Rahaman CPIM M
76 Jalangi Abdur Razzak CPIM M N
77 Karimpur Samar Ghosh CPIM M N
78 Tehatta Ranjit Mondal CPIM M N
79 Palashipara S. M. Saddi CPIM M
80 Kaliganj Sankar Sarkar RSP M N
81 Nakashipara Gayetri Sardar (ST) CPIM F N
82 Chapra Samsul Islam Mollaha CPIM M
83 Krishnanagar Uttar Subenoy Ghosh CPIM M
84 Nabadwip Sumit Biswas CPIM M N
85 Krishnanagar Dakshin Rama Biswas (SC) CPIM F N
86 Santipur Yar Mullick RCPI M N
87 Ranaghat Uttar Paschim Meena Bhattacharya CPIM F N
88 Krishnaganj (SC) Barun Biswas CPIM M N
89 Ranaghat Uttar Purba (SC) Archana Biswas CPIM F N
90 Ranaghat Dakshin (SC) Aloke Das CPIM M
91 Chakdaha Biswanath Gupta CPIM M N
92 Kalyani (SC) Jyotsna Sirkar CPIM F N
93 Haringhata (SC) Dr. Biswajit Paul CPIM M N
94 Bagda (SC) Mrinal Sikdar FB M N
95 Bangaon Uttar (SC) Dr. Biswajit Biswas CPIM M N
96 Bangaon Dakshin (SC) Anuj Sarkar CPIM M N
97 Gaighata (SC) Monoj Kanti Biswas CPI M N
98 Swarupnagar (SC) Sibapada Das CPIM M N
99 Baduria Md. Selim Gayen CPIM M
100 Habra Pranab Bhattacharya CPIM M
101 Ashoknagar Satyasebi Kar CPIM M
102 Amdanga Abdus Sattar CPIM M
103 Bijpur Nirjharini Chakarborty CPIM F
104 Naihati Ranjit Kundu CPIM M
105 Bhatpara Nepaldeb Bhattacharya CPIM M N
106 Jagatdal Haripada Biswas (SC) FB M
107 Noapara Dr. K. D. Ghosh CPIM M
108 Barrackpur Dr. Madhusudan Samanta CPIM M N
109 Khardaha Asim DasGupta CPIM M
110 Dum Dum Uttar Rekha Goswami CPIM F
111 Panihati Dulal Chakraborty CPIM M N
112 Kamarhati Manas Mukherjee CPIM M
113 Baranagar Amar Choudhury RSP M
114 Dum Dum Gautam Deb CPIM M
115 Rajarhat New Town Tapas Chatterjee CPIM M N
116 Bidhannagar Palash Das CPIM M N
117 Rajarhat Gopalpur Robin Mondal CPIM M
118 Madhyamgram Ranjit Choudhury FB M N
119 Barasat Sanjib Chatterjee FB M N
120 Deganga Dr. Mortaza Hossain FB M
121 Haroa Imtiaz Hossain CPIM M N
122 Minakhan (SC) Dilip Roy CPIM M N
123 Sandeshkhali (ST) Nirapada Sardar CPIM M N
124 Basirhat Dakshin Narayan Mukherjee CPIM M
125 Basirhat Uttar Mostafa Bin Kasem CPIM M
126 Hingalganj (SC) Ananda Mondal CPI M N
127 Gosaba (SC) Samarendra Nath Mondal RSP M N
128 Basanti (SC) Subhas Naskar RSP M
129 Kultali (SC) Ramsankar Halder CPIM M
130 Patharpratima Jagneswwar Das CPIM M
131 Kakdwip Milan Bhattacharya CPIM M N
132 Sagar Milan Parua CPIM M
133 Kulpi Sakuntala Paik (SC) CPIM F
134 Raidighi Kanti Ganguly CPIM M
135 Mandirbazar (SC) Dr. Sarat Halder CPIM M N
136 Jaynagar (SC) Shyamali Halder CPIM F N
137 Baruipur Purba (SC) Bimal Mistri CPIM M
138 Canning Paschim (SC) Joydeb Purokait CPIM M N
139 Canning Purba Abdur Rezzzak Mollah CPIM M
140 Baruipur Paschim Kanak Kanti Paria CPIM M N
141 Magrahat Purba (SC) Chandan Saha CPIM M N
142 Magrahat Paschim Dr. Abul Hasnat CPIM M
143 Diamond Harbour Smt. Subhra Shaw CPIM F N
144 Falta Ardhendu Sekhar Bindu CPIM M N
145 Satgachhia Barun Naskar (SC) CPIM M N
146 Bishnupur (SC) Prof. Sudhin Sinha CPIM M N
147 Sonarpur Dakshin Tarit Chakraborty CPI M N
148 Bhangar Badal Jamadar CPIM M
149 Kasba Satarup Ghosh CPIM M N
150 Jadavpur Buddhadeb Bhattacharya CPIM M
151 Sonarpur Uttar Shyamal Naskar (SC) CPIM M
152 Tollyganj Prof. Partha Pratim Biswas CPIM M
153 Behala Purba KumKum Chakraborty CPIM F
154 Behala Paschim Prof. Anupam DebSarkar CPIM M N
155 Maheshtala Sk. Md. Israil CPIM M N
156 Budge Budge Hrisikesh Poddar CPIM M N
157 Metiaburuz Badrudoja Mollah CPIM M N
158 Kolkata Port Moinuddin Sams FB M N
159 Bhabanipur Narayan Jain CPIM M
160 Rashbehari Prof. Santanu Bose CPIM M N
161 Ballygunge Dr. Fuad Halim CPIM M N
162 Chowrangee Bimal Singh RJD M N
163 Entally Dr. Debesh Das (SC) CPIM M
164 Beleghata Anadi Sahoo CPIM M
165 Jorasanko Janki Singh CPIM F N
166 Shyampukur Jiban Saha FB M
167 Maniktala Rupa Bagchi CPIM F
168 Kashipur-Belgachhia Kaninika Ghosh CPIM F N
169 Bally Kanika Ganguly CPIM F
170 Howrah Uttar Nemai Samanta CPIM M N
171 Howrah Madhya Arup Roy CPIM M
172 Shibpur Dr. Jagannath Bhattacharya FB M
173 Howrah Dakshin Krishna Kishor Roy CPIM M
174 Sankrail (SC) Anirban Hazra CPIM M
175 Panchla Doly Roy FB F
176 Uluberia Purba Mohan Mondal CPIM M N
177 Uluberia Uttar (SC) Bhim Ghuku CPIM M N
178 Uluberia Dakshin Sk. Kutubuddin Ahmad FB M N
179 Shyampur Minati Pramanik FB F N
180 Bagnan Akkel Ali CPIM M
181 Amta Rabindranath Mitra CPIM M
182 Udaynarayanpur Chandralekha Bag CPIM F
183 Jagatballavpur Kaji Jaffar Ahmed CPIM M N
184 Domjur Mohanta Chatterjee CPIM M
185 Uttarpara Srutinath Praharaj CPIM M
186 Sreerampur to be announced later on CPI

187 Champdani Jibesh Chakraborty CPIM M
188 Singur Dr. Asit Das CPIM M N
189 Chandannagar Sibaprasad Banerjee CPIM M
190 Chunchura Naren Dey FB M
191 Balagarh (SC) Bhuban Pramanik CPIM M
192 Pandua Amzad Hossain CPIM M N
193 Saptagram Ashutosh Mukhopadhaya CPIM M
194 Chanditala Sk. Azim Ali CPIM M N
195 Jangipara Prof. Sudarshan Roy Chowdhury CPIM M
196 Haripal Bharati Mukherjee CPIM F
197 Dhanekhali (SC) Srabani Sarkar FB F N
198 Tarakeswar Pratim Chatterjee MFB M
199 Pursurah Soumendranath Bera CPIM M
200 Arambag (SC) Asit Malik CPIM M N
201 Goghat (SC) Biswanath Karak FB M N
202 Khanakul Subhra Parui CPIM F N
203 Tamluk Jagannath Mitra CPI M
204 Panskura Purba Amiya Sahoo CPIM M
205 Panskura Paschim Nirmal Kr. Bera CPI M N
206 Moyna Mujibur Rahaman CPIM M
207 Nandakumar Bramhamoy Nanda SP M
208 Mahisadal Tamalika Panda Seth CPIM F
209 Haldia (SC) Nityananda Bera CPIM M
210 Nandigram Pramananda Bharati CPI M
211 Chandipur Bidyut Guchait CPIM M N
212 Patashpur Makhan Nayek CPI M N
213 Kanthi Uttar Chakradhar Meikap (OBC) CPIM M
214 Bhagabanpur Ranjit Manna SP M N
215 Khejuri (SC) Asim Mondal SP M N
216 Kanthi Dakshin Uttam Kr. Pradhan CPI M N
217 Ramnagar Swadesh Ranjan Nayek CPIM M
218 Egra Prof. Hrisikesh Paira DSP M N
219 Dantan Arun Mahapatra CPI M N
220 Nayagram (ST) Bhutnath Soren CPIM M
221 Gopiballavpur Rabilal Moitra CPIM M
222 Jhargram Amar Bose CPIM M
223 Keshiary (ST) Biram Mandi CPIM M N
224 Kharagpur Sadar Anil Das CPIM M N
225 Narayangarh Suryakanta Mishra CPIM M
226 Sabang Rampada Sahoo BBC M N
227 Pingla Prof. Probodh Ch. Sinha DSP M
228 Kharagpur Nazmul Haque CPIM M
229 Debra Sorab Hossain Sk. CPIM M N
230 Daspur Sunil Adhikari CPIM M
231 Ghatal (SC) Chabi Pakhira CPIM F N
232 Chandrakona (SC) Chaya Dalui CPIM F N
233 Garbeta Sushanta Ghosh CPIM M
234 Salboni Abhiram Mahato CPIM M N
235 Keshpur (SC) Rameswar Dalui CPIM M
236 Medinipur Santosh Rana CPI M
237 Binpur (ST) Dibakar Hansda CPIM M N
238 Bandwan (ST) Susanta Besra CPIM M N
239 Balarampur Manindra Gope (OBC) CPIM M N
240 Baghmundi Mongal Mahato FB M N
241 Joypur Dhiren Mahato FB M N
242 Purulia Koushik Majumdar CPIM M N
243 Manbazar (ST) Himani Hansda CPIM F N
244 Kashipur Subhas Mahato CPIM M
245 Para (SC) Dipak Bauri CPIM M N
246 Raghunathpur (SC) Dipali Bauri CPIM F N
247 Saltora (SC) Sasthi Charan Bauri CPIM M N
248 Chhatna Anathbandhu Mondal RSP M
249 Ranibandh (ST) Debalina Hembram CPIM F
250 Raipur (ST) Upen Kisku CPIM M
251 Taldangra Monoranjan Patra CPIM M
252 Bankura Pratip Mukherjee CPIM M N
253 Barjora Sushmita Biswas CPIM F
254 Onda Tarapada Chakraborty FB M
255 Bishnupur Swapan Ghosh CPIM M
256 Katulpur (SC) Purnima Bagdi CPIM F N
257 Indus (SC) Santanu Bora CPIM M N
258 Sonamukhi (SC) Monoranjan Chongre CPIM M N
259 Khandaghosh (SC) Nabin Chandra Bag CPIM M N
260 Bardhaman Dakshin Nirupam Sen CPIM M
261 Raina (SC) Basudeb Khan CPIM M N
262 Jamalpur (SC) Samar Hazra MFB M
263 Monteswar Choudhury Mohd. Hedaetullaha CPIM M
264 Kalna (SC) Pranab Sikdar CPIM M N
265 Memari Debasis Ghosh CPIM M N
266 Bardhaman Uttar (SC) Aparna Saha CPIM F N
267 Bhatar Srijit Konar CPIM M N
268 Purbasthali Dakshin Aleaya Begam CPIM F N
269 Purbasthali Uttar Pradip Saha CPIM M N
270 Katwa Sudipta Bagchi CPIM M
271 Ketugram Syed Abdul Kader CPIM M N
272 Mangalkot Sajahan Choudhury CPIM M N
273 Ausgram (SC) Basudeb Mete CPIM M N
274 Galsi (SC) Sunil Kr. Mondal FB M N
275 Pandabeswar Gouranga Chatterjee CPIM M N
276 Durgapur Purba Alpana Choudhury CPIM F N
277 Durgapur Paschim Biprendu Chakraborty CPIM M
278 Raniganj Runu Dutta CPIM M N
279 Jamuria Jahanara Khan CPIM F N
280 Asansol Dakshin Asoke Mukherjee CPIM M N
281 Asansol Uttar Ranu Roy Choudhury CPIM F N
282 Kulti Manik Lal Acharya FB M
283 Barabani Abhas Roy Choudhury CPIM M N
284 Dubrajpur (SC) Bejoy Bagdi FB M
285 Suri Abdul Gaffar CPIM M N
286 Bolpur Tapan Hore RSP M
287 Nanoor (SC) Shyamali Pradhan CPIM F N
288 Labpur Nabanita Mukherjee CPIM F
289 Sainthia (SC) Dhiren Bagdi CPIM M
290 Mayureswar Asoke Roy CPIM M N
291 Rampurhat Rebati Ranjan Bhattacharya FB M N
292 Hansan Kamal Hasan RCPI M N
293 Nalhati Dipak Chatterjee FB M
294 Murarai Dr. Kamre Elahi CPIM M