Leftist and progressive cultural organisations have pitched in for Left Front candidates in a big way in the upcoming Assembly elections, churning out music albums, dramas, folk dances, audio albums, videos and others.
One of these organisations, 69-year-old Indian People’s Theatre Association, popularly known as Bhartiya Gananatya Sangha, has been in great demand for giving a cultural thrust to the LF’s campaign in urban and rural areas.
The Association’s West Bengal state committee recently released an audio album ‘Amader Nei Bhoy’ (We have no fear) in support of LF candidates.
On the eve of the LF’s Brigade Parade Ground rally recently, it had composed a song based on the theme that an eighth LF government was a certainty.
Similarly, West Bengal Adivasi and Lokshilpi Sangha has also brought out an audio album ‘Astyam Agamani’ heralding the return of the LF government.
Some of the songs in the album referred to an ‘unholy nexus’ between the Congress, the Trinamool Congress and the Maoists. ‘Samukh Pane’ (Ahead) is one such song composed by IPTA’s Haldia Muktadhara unit highlighting the Front’s future plans and programmes.
A documentary film was also made by Arunabha Ganguly, attached with a Leftist organisation, based on the surrendered Maoist woman leader Sobha Mandi’s diary.
Another documentary film titled ‘Ashanta Samay’ (Turbulent times) has been made by IPTA’s Hooghly district committee.
Sometime back a DVD was released at the CPI(M) headquarters titled ‘No Pasaran’ (They shall not pass), based on slogans coined by the Communist party of Spain during the Spanish civil war.
The theme of the DVD was the Maoist violence in Jangalmahal, alleging that the ultras with the assistance of Trinamool Congress and the Congress had killed hundreds of CPI(M) workers, party sources said.
