KOZHIKODE: While the delegates are seriously deliberating upon political issues on the second day of the party congress, a senior CPM member and West Bengal Opposition Leader Surya Kanta Mishra took time off to explain the repressive measures being taken by the Mamata Banarjee-led government in the state to humiliate his party.He criticised that the Trinamool Congress government had evicted 41,000 CPM workers from their houses in the past few months without any legally sustainable reasons. As many as 11,000 of them managed to return to their house but they weren’t free from persecution. The police had already levied `25 crore as fines from innocent people by framing false cases, he said.He added that even non-Left trade union workers, including the INTUC members, were not free from government-sponsored torture. He alleged that a state of lawlessness prevails in the state and even the Congress leaders were helpless in the situation. “Democratically elected representatives of the CPM in the local bodies were dismissed without following any norms and an anarchic situation had developed in West Bengal,” he alleged.Alleging that the ‘TMC-Maoist combine’ in West Bengal had already killed 750 people in the last four years, the WB Opposition leader said that the government led by Mamata was withdrawing even cases of murders filed against her party workers. The media was also being targeted by the Mamata government. Stating that an “emergency-like” situation was prevailing in West Bengal, he said that Mamata always refused to answer any questions on these issues in the state assembly. “She had not attended even the budget session of the state assembly. Asked why the CPM which had been in power for more than 30 years in WB couldn’t organise effective democratic resistance to check the undemocratic actions and the repressive methods of Mamata, he said that his party couldn’t launch aggressive steps to meet the undemocratic actions and atrocities perpetrated by the government. Mishra added that his party was taking corrective measures following its debacle in the assembly polls. “The party had not suffered any serious erosion of its mass base,” he said.
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