Statesman News Service
MALDA, 18 MAY: The district CPI-M leaders are disappointed after reviewing polling station-wise, given the ‘bad results’ of their party candidates in each Assembly segment of Malda district, compared with previous records.
In English Bazaar town the CPI-M candidate Dr Abdur Razzaque has obtained a leading margin only from one ward out of 25. Only the ward no 24, a Red bastion, has been able to show a leading margin but it could not retain the previous records.
In English Bazaar Assembly segment under the South Malda Parliamentary constituency, the Congress candidate Mr AH Khan Choudhury has obtained 78,591 votes and the CPI-M candidate Dr Abdur Razzaque got 54,990 votes. The CPI-M leaders detected that the Congress candidate Mr AH Khan Choudhury bagged a leading margin of nearly 20,000 from English Bazaar town out of 23,601 margin of votes recorded in English Bazaar Assembly segments. After the debacle the CPI-M cadres have reported to senior leaders that due to forcible collection of subscriptions from members of various CPI-M and LF backed associations in various sectors including teachers (secondary and primary) and government employees (to meet election expenses) was one reason why people were being frustrated and did not cast vote in favour of the CPI-M candidates here. A large section of people belonging to non-government sectors including daily wage earners have gone against the state government due to the announcement of 30 per cent increment of the salaries of government and semi-government employees just before election. The majority of people belonging to the working group in other sectors did not get any financial benefit from the government before the elections.
A large section of contractors in the electricity department in Malda belonging to the CPI-M's association were inactive due to the forcible collection of subscription from them by a few leaders of the Citu. They also alleged that the Citu leaders did not deposit the exact amount of collected money to the party. The people belonging to the Above the Poverty Line group were sentimental and went against the state government's decision to provide materials only to the people belonging to Below the Poverty line through public distribution system just before elections.
The government did not have a policy for APL people and did not provide sugar at a subsidized rate. The APL people get only kerosene from the PDS.
Except Habibpur Assembly constituency, the CPI-M candidates did not get leading margin from the Assembly segments from where the CPI-M and FB MLA were elected in Malda district. They are Harishchandrapur, Ratua, Old Malda, Gazole, Kaliachak, Manikchak Assembly segments.
Self introspection?
RAIGANJ , 18 MAY: The leaders of the Left Front in North Dinajpur are concerned as the CPI-M candidate of Raiganj Parliamentary seat Mr Bireswar Lahiri was defeated by Congress candidate Mrs Deepa Das Munsi by a huge margin from previously Left-dominated Assembly segments like Islampur, Karandighi , Chakulia and Kaliyaganj. A section of CPI-M leaders believe that the majority of minority voters did not cast their votes for the CPI-M.
One of the members of the CPI-M district committee Mr Anirudhdha Bhowmick said: "This year the majority of minority voters of all seven Assembly segments did not cast their votes for the CPI-M.
Very soon we will have a Left
Front meeting at the district level where our demerits will be discussed and the reason for defeat traced." SNS
Anti-incumbency
SILIGURI, 18 MAY: The Darjeeling district Left Front appears satisfied with the poll results in the four Assembly segments in the plains of the Darjeeling Parliamentary constituency. “The Front has done reasonably well in these segments - the ferocity of the anti-incumbency torrent notwithstanding,” the district Left leaders claimed. The CPI-M state committee member and the Left candidate for the high voltage constituency, Mr Jibesh Sarkar, said that the Front had garnered nearly half of the votes cast in the four Assembly segments. “This is a creditable achievement when juxtaposed with the stridency of the anti-incumbency undercurrent sweeping across the state,” he said. The FB district secretary Mr Smritish Bhattacharya said that the Front would have fared better in the plains had the CPI-M reached out to the people. SNS
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