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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Trinamool Congress plans huge rally in Maoist den

Trinamool Congress plans huge rally in Maoist den

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published Published on Oct 26, 2011   modified Modified on Oct 26, 2011
-The Economic Times
 
The youth wing of the Trinamool Congress will hold a huge rally in the Maoist stronghold of Belpahari in West Midnapore district on November 1. This will be the first meeting of a political party in Belpahari.

"I am expecting a gathering of about one lakh in our rally in the so-called Maoist heartland," Youth Trinamool Congress General Secretary Suvendu Adhikari told ET on Tuesday. He alleged that CPM activists, against whom several criminal cases were pending, had joined hands with Maoists in attacking Trinamool Congress activists. "But Marxists and Maoists would not be able to face us politically. People of Jangalmahal are with us. Recent cases of collection of application forms for police jobs in Jangalmahal by the local youth are a pointer to this," Adhikari claimed.

Adhikari had also succeeded in holding another rally in Maoist zone of Pingboni last Saturday, when the red-ultras were observing a 24-hour bandh in Jangalmahal. "I had organised the Pingboni meeting on the day of Maoist-sponsored bandh to prove that the armed killers had lost control of the entire Jangalmahal and were rejected by the local villagers," Adhikari claimed.

Adhikari's success in organising the Pingboni gathering has prompted the state Trinamool Congress leadership to give him the green signal to go for such rallies in Maoist pockets, and the November 1 gathering at Belpahari is a part of that.

Belpahari and Banspahari are two areas in West Midnapore district which were Maoists stronghold till a year back. CPM could not dare to hold any rally in Belpahari. Even Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee did not visit Lalgarh or any pockets of Jangalmahal as chief minister in the last six months of his rule.

However, Mamata Banerjee held a meeting at Lalgarh in August when she was railway minister. Even Home Minister P Chidambaram addressed a public gathering at Lalgarh last year. But neither Bhattacharjee nor any CPM heavyweight leader dared enter Lalgarh.

After becoming the chief minister, Banerjee had urged Maoists to give up arms and return to the mainstream. A committee was also set up to initiate the process for holding talks with the red ultras. At the same time, her party had taken up a series of political movements in Jangalmahal and the November 1 rally at Belpahari was a part of that.

"We are determined to isolate Maoists from the local villagers in Jangalmahal. No party has ever dared to rush to the Maoist heartland of Belpahari to hold a rally there. But we will go for it," Adhikari said.

The Economic Times, 26 October, 2011, http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/trinamool-congress-plans-huge-rally-in-maoist-den/articleshow/10493614.cms


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