Kolkata:
The Communist Party of India, Marxist (CPIM) which held uninterrupted power
from 1977 to 2011 in West Bengal, is hitting the drawing board by reviving a
form of fund raising it had abandoned 40 years ago after their second
consecutive defeat to Mamata Banerjee with a four-day mass collection drive in
the city from June 21.
Party
sources said the money collected from this drive will be utilized to help and
render medical treatment to 1,924 activists, who are undergoing treatment at
different city hospitals, following attacks and physical assaults on them by
the ruling Trinamool Congress workers after the assembly elections.
The
four-day drive will start from June 21 to enable key party leaders from the
state, including state secretary Surjya Kanta Mishra and Politbureau
members like Biman Bose and Mohammad Salim to attend.
Members
of the party’s Politbureau and central committee from Bengal would be busy in
Delhi for the four-day session of the two CPIM apex bodies from June 17. All of
them will be back in Kolkata on June 20 and took part in the fund collection
drives from the next day. Politbureau member and Left Front Chairman Biman Bose
said that altogether 1924 of their activists were beaten up mercilessly after
the poll results were out on May 19, by Trinamool Congress activists.
A
total of 9228 CPIM activists were forced to abandon their homes due to threats
and intimidation by the ruling party workers, whereas 2902 houses were looted,
after Mamata Banerjee became chief minister for the second consecutive term.
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