Describing the Land Act amendments using an Ordinance “as obnoxious and undemocratic”, the Left Front has announced a slew of political programmes to oppose the same.
Besides initiating a fortnight-long campaign, the Front will publish two booklets highlighting the “anti-farmer” elements in the Ordinance.
The State Committee of Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) has also written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging to disclose the secrets mystifying the disappearance of Subhash Chandra Bose. The move came only days after a section of Bose family requested that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) declassify documents related to Netaji’s disappearance. Earlier the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) refused to share contents of classified files.
The Left Front has now promised farmers to mount a campaign against the Narendra Modi government for approving the land Ordinance which will decisively take away remaining rights of the farmers. The Ordinance will do away with the need for consent to acquire land for industrial and other projects. The Front partners have agreed to resist the Ordinance. “The Ordinance is clearly dictated by corporates, by-passing the Parliament, to take away of the rights of all categories of people aligned to land tilling…it will only benefit the land owners,” said Left Front chairman Biman Basu. The peasant fronts of the respective Left parties and the parties will start a 15-day state-wide campaign from January 5 to protest against the Ordinance.
Both the peasant fronts and the parties will publish booklets to create awareness against the Ordinance, Mr Basu said. The Left had gone out of power for allegedly acquiring land without farmers’ consents in 2006.
On the issue of Netaji’s disappearance or death, Mr Basu said that the party has already written to the Prime Minister seeking “declassification” of related documents.
“We also want to celebrate Netaji’s birthday as ‘Deshprem Diwas’ (Patriot’s Day) as humanitarian values are deteriorating,” Mr Bose said.
