West
Bengal wakes up to first morning post Left Front government
Saturday May 14, 2011 06:28:47 PM,
IANS
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Kolkata:
"Rajye
palabadal" (change of regime in state) - thus read the grudging
banner headline in Ganashakti, the Communist Party of
India-Marxist's (CPI-M) mouthpiece, the morning after the
34-year-old Left Front government was swept out of West Bengal by
the people's mandate.
It was a "very different" Saturday for people in the eastern
state, where only some time back few would have believed that the
CPI-M-led Left Front can be defeated.
Banker T.P. Dutta expressed the popular sentiment: "A first time
voter in 1977, when the Left Front came to power, would now be all
of 55 years. That means from his early youth to the fag end of his
professional life he has seen only the comrades in office. He has
seen the same faces in the newspapers and on television channels
deciding policies on all issues." In 1977, the minimum age of
voting was 21. It is 18 years now.
An editorial in the party's Bengali daily Ganashakti termed the
poll results as "unexpected" but admitted that the people have
"brought to an end the Left Front rule".
However, it tried to boost the morale of the cadre by saying the
Left will take up people's issues that are bound to come up in the
coming days as the masses come under "more vigorous attack" due to
liberalisation and privatisation.
"New areas of struggle will emerge. Then the Leftists will start
new chapters of struggle by being with the suffering masses."
"The anti-people policies have to be defeated through that fight."
The editorial also expressed concern whether the interests of the
toiling masses would be protected under the new Congress-Trinamool
Congress dispensation.
"The political forces which are set to govern the state now after
34 years, have a past which is synonymous with semi-fascist terror
and anti-people policies.
"So there is concern over the protection of the rights of the
people, particularly the working and impoverished classes," the
daily said.
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