KOLKATA: MORE than hundred
mass organisations met in a joint convention at Rani Rashmoni Road and
announced the programme of the movement on peoples’ issues. Bengal Platform for
Mass Organisations (BPMO) will lead joint struggles against the anti-people
policies of both central government and the TMC led state government. This is for the first time that such mass
organisations representing all sections of people have come together to
organise struggle against the union and the state government.
The platform has decided to
hold joint conventions at district and block level and conduct jathas in all
the 77 thousand booths of the state.
Initially 15 point charter of demands will be placed before the people.
The convention was represented
by leaders of trade unions, peasant organisations, teacher- student-youth-women
organisations.
Addressing the convention,
AIKS leader Madan Ghosh said, the rural people in the state are facing acute
distress. The peasants are gradually organising resistance to the all-out
attack on their livelihood. CITU leader Shyamal Chakraborty criticised the policies
of the centre and said the state government is pursuing the same policies. CITU
leader Basudeb Acharya called upon the people to organise resistance against
attack on democracy from the grass root level.
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