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Sunday, January 08, 2006

CPI wants one seat in Malda

Statesman News Service
MALDA. Jan.8.
– After RSP, the CPI has demanded one seat for its candidate out of eleven Assembly constituencies in the Malda district.

Yesterday, the district secretary of the Malda CPI brought a petition to this effect before Mr. Jiban Moitra, the district left front convener and district CPIM secretary.

The photocopy of the petition was sent to the Left Front chairman, Mr. Biman Bose and also to the state committee of the CPI.

The CPI district secretary, Mr. Tarun Das, informed that the CPI candidates used to contest election before 1978 and also won assembly seats in the Malda district. But, the district left front did not consider the demand for an assembly seat that was tabled before the last assembly election.

" The CPIM does not have enough strength to win 10 seats alone, out of eleven, except in Gazole ", Mr. Tarun Das further added.

" Without the help and support from allies of the L F in Malda it would be difficult for the CPIM to retain even the present assembly seats including the one in English Bazaar" Mr. Das claimed.

The Malda RSP is more adamant than CPI while bargaining an assembly seat in Malda district.

The RSP leaders in Malda at its last state conference had adopted a resolution to demand assembly seats in this district during assembly elections. The district leaders have sent reminders to the concerned committees of the front regarding this.

In the last panchayat election, the CPIM district secretary, Mr. Jiban Moitra, had criticised the role of the Malda RSP for anti left activities when the CPIM candidates in Zilla Parishad election were defeated and the Trinamul and BJP led by the Congress had dislodged CPIM from power in Malda Zilla Parishad.

The RSP leadership fielded their candidates against the CPIM in some Zilla Parishad seats in last panchayat election, when the district CPIM could not pacify the RSP leaders on of the issue of rights over the ZP seat selection according to their choice.

Interestingly, the CPIM had allotted seats to the Socialist Party as the member of the Front. RSP took it seriously and decided to take revenge.

Similarly, the CPIM has lost power in Old Malda panchayat samiti owing to its withdrawal of support of a CPI member and ultimately, the congress formed its board recently.

On the other hand, the socialist party had earlier placed their demand for one seat in Malda where the CPIM has no chance to win against the congress candidate.

In Malda, only the Forward Bloc as a constituent of the Left Front has been allocated one Assembly seat Harishchandrapur to contest from the assembly constituencies out of eleven seats in this district. #

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