Kolkata: The Left Front (CPI-M) will organize a rally
to protest against rising prices of essential commodities here next month sans
the Congress with which it had formed an alliance to contest the recent
Assembly poll in West Bengal.
The decision of the Left Front followed the CPI-M
Central Committee’s observation that the electoral tactics adopted in the state
was not in “consonance” with the decision of the party’s apex decision making
body to not have an alliance or understanding with the Congress. “We will hold
a rally on July 11 to protest against the rising prices of everyday
commodities. We will have all our Left allies as well as non-Left partners. We
are not inviting the Congress in it,” 75-year-old Indian politician and Left
Front chairman Biman Bose said on Tuesday.
Asked why the Congress, their electoral ally in
Bengal, was left out of the rally, though the party has invited CPI-M to
participate in their proposed June 25 protest-rally, Bose replied, “They
(Congress) have invited the CPI-M not the Left Front parties.” The Congress has
invited CPI-M state secretary Surjya Kanta Mishra to participate in its rally
to protest against the price rise and post-poll violence in the state.
On Monday, CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury
said: “The Central Committee concluded that the electoral tactics adopted in
West Bengal was not in consonance with its decision not to have an alliance or
understanding with the Congress.”
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