CPM claims Mamata breach of privilege
CPI(M) politburo member and Rajya Sabha MP Sitaram Yechury has written a letter to Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari claiming Breach of Privilege by Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee. He said that the statement in Rajya Sabha on her recent rally at Lalgarh had misled the House as it was based on a “gross misrepresentation of facts”.
In a letter to Dr Ansari on Wednesday, Mr Yechury said a statement was made in the House by parliamentary affairs minister P.K. Bansal asserting that the August 9 rally was organised by “Forum of Citizens against Violence” and Ms Banerjee had addressed it in her capacity as the Trinamul Congress chief.
Mr Yechury also maintained that the permission for the rally was sought, not by the forum, but by a person, Pranab Basu, president of paschim Mednipur district Trinamul Congress.
He also questioned the railway ministry’s order of the deployment of the Railways Protection Force at the venue. “Surely, a minister of the Union Cabinet, addressing a political meeting in her personal capacity as the leader of a political party, cannot order the deployment of the RPF,” said Mr Yechury.
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‘Even Chinese puzzled by Left’
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Continuing his Left-bashing in Bengal, AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said Communism was a dead ideology. “In the past 33 years, the Left leadership has been blinded by a failed ideology,” he said, adding that this was the root cause of the state’s decline. In his “Mission Bengal” tour, Mr Gandhi has been persistently tearing into the CPI(M)-led Left Front government.
He said that Communist ideology had become a spent force in the world. “It is an ideology that has failed in every other part of the world. Even the die-hard Communist like the Cubans are now changing with the changed perception about Communism.” Mr Gandhi added.
Comparing the Communists of Bengal with those of China, the motherland of Communism, he said, “When I go to China, the Chinese are astounded at what the Left Front is doing in Bengal. They do not understand and ask me, what is going on with the Communist in Bengal.”
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