Statesman News Service
MALDA, Nov. 30: In a letter addressed to the chief minister Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, the sabhadhipati of Malda zilla parishad, Mr Goutam Chakraborty has asked: “Why the state sports and youth welfare department has issued a separate notification only for Malda and Murshidabad to organise youth festival”. In his letter dated 28 November Mr Chakraborty, also district Congress leader, pointed out that according to the general notification it has been instructed to form the organising committee where the chief patron will be sabhadhipati of ZP, except Darjeeling and Kolkata. According to the notification dated 14 September chief of the ZP and panchayat samiti will be the chief patron of the organising committee of the youth festival in all districts and all block level. But the department has issued another notification on 7 November only for Malda and Murshidabad and according to this notification the chief of the ZP and panchayat samiti will not be entitled to hold the post of chief patron . The Malda ZP sabhadhipati Mr Chakraborty claimed in his letter to the CM that in Malda the environment minister Mr Sailen Sarkar has been selected as chief patron and the animal resources development minister Mr Anisur Rahaman has been selected as chief patron for the organising committee in Murshidabad. It may be noted that the Malda and Murshidabad ZPs are under the control of the Congress and non-Left parties and both sabhadhipatis belong to the Congress. Mr Chakraborty asked: “Is the youth festival government programme? Or a CPI-M party’s programme”. Speaking to the reporters today the sabhadhipati said: “In block level the organising committee head is not the panchayat samiti chief belonging to the CPI-M but other ‘cadres’ have been selected as head of block festival committee”. The Malda district youth officer has prepared the committee according to the direction of the minister Mr Sarkar. In the last paragraph of his letter Mr Chakraborty urged the CM to look into the matter and to take action against the discrimination for holding the festival only in Malda and Murshidabad.
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