Two CPM leaders expelled for violating guidelines

Statesman News Service

MALDA, May 4: Two CPI-M leaders at the block level have been expelled for violation of party guidelines for panchayat polls 2008. Mr Tapan Bikash Saha , a CPI-M member in Chanchal -I block , who protested against the decision to nominate a candidate from Congress family , was expelled when he filed nomination in Zilla Parishad seat as an independent candidate ignoring the decision of the district leadership. The district CPI-M had nominated Mr Afzul Hossain , as an independent candidate in Chanchal -I ZP seat. It may be noted that Mr Hossain is the son of Mr Muhammad Sahid, a rebel Congress leader and out going office bearer of Malda Zilla Parishad. Another CPI-M local committee member Mr Abani Mandal of Old Malda, who had filed nomination in gram panchayat as an independent candidate, has been expelled from the party for ignoring the decision of the party.The Malda CPI-M is gearing up election campaigning where it has filed candidates in tiers. After Mrs Sonia Gandhi's visit at Sujapur under Kalichak police station, the CPI-M has planned to organise a rally where the chief minister Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee will address a meeting. According to the CPI-M party sources, the CM will also address another meeting at Bulbulchandi on 11 May afternoon and will go to Kaliachak in the evening. Mr Bhattacharjee will leave for Farakka in Murshidabad after the end of programme in Kaliachak and will campaign for rural polls in Murshidabad on 12 May. Series of state leaders and MPs have been listed by the Malda CPI-M for election campaigning here. Yesterday, CPI-M state leader Mr Shyamal Chakraborty came to Malda and held organisational meeting and visited some areas to gear up election tempo.Speaking to the reporters here yesterday, Mr Chakraborty expressed his confidence that the CPI-M candidates will be able to recapture the Malda Zilla Parishad seat this year.In last panchayat polls, the Congress had bagged 15 seats out of 33 and captured the board with the help of the BJP and Trinamul Congress.