A political Blog about how and why a reign of terror in West Bengal is unleashed planfully by imperialists, multinational company financed and supported Rainbow Alliance of Maoists, Naxalites,TMC, Congress, SUCI, perverted anti-Communist and anti-Leftist so-called sold-out intellectuals, corporate media and NGOs of doubtful character. Source: 'People's Democracy', 'Ganashakti' and other Left oriented journals.
Thursday, April 11, 2019
नेशनल कॉन्फ्रेंस और पीपुल्स डेमोक्रेटिक पार्टी (पीडीपी) ने गुरुवार को प्रथम चरण के मतदान में वर्दीधारी कर्मचारियों द्वारा लोगों को भाजपा को वोट देने के लिए मजबूर करने, ईवीएम में कांग्रेस के बटन के काम ना करने सहित अन्य गड़बड़ियों के आरोप लगाए. पीडीपी अध्यक्ष महबूबा मुफ्ती ने ट्विटर पर एक वीडियो साझा किया जिसमें मतदाता भाजपा विरोधी नारे लगाते दिख रहे हैं क्योंकि बीएसएफ ने भाजपा को वोट नहीं देने पर उनसे बदसलूकी की थी.
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
রাফালে যুদ্ধ বিমান চুক্তি মামলায় সুপ্রিম কোর্টে বড় ধাক্কা খেল বিজেপি সরকার। কেন্দ্রের আবেদন খারিজ করে রাফালে চুক্তি গোপন নথিকে প্রমাণযোগ্য দস্তাবেজ বলে স্বীকৃতি দিয়েছে সুপ্রিম কোর্ট। ওই নথির ভিত্তিতে রাফালে মামলার পুনর্বিচারের আবেদনের শুনানি হবে বলে জানিয়ে দিলেন সুপ্রিম কোর্টের বিচারপতি। গত ১৪ মার্চ কেন্দ্রীয় সরকার গোপন নথির ভিত্তিতে রাফালে মামলার শুনানির বিরোধিতা করে। দুপক্ষের বক্তব্য শুনে সেদিন রায় দেয়নি আদালত। কেন্দ্রের দাবি ছিল এতে সরকারের বিশেষাধিকার ও গোপনীয়তা লঙ্ঘিত হবে। একই সঙ্গে রাষ্ট্রের সুরক্ষার সঙ্গেও আপস হবে এই পদক্ষেপে। কেন্দ্রের দাবি, রাফালের ওই নথি প্রতিরক্ষা মন্ত্রক থেকে বিনা অনুমতিতে ফটোকপি করা হয়েছে। এর ফলে দেশের সুরক্ষা, সার্বভৌমত্ব ও বন্ধুরাষ্ট্রের সঙ্গে সম্পর্ক প্রভাবিত হয়েছে। কেন্দ্রের দাবি, যে নথি চুরি করা হয়েছে তাতে রাফাল বিমানের আঘাত হানার ক্ষমতা সম্পর্কিত অত্যন্ত গোপন তথ্য রয়েছে।
সিপিএম তৃণমূলের দিকে অভিযোগের আঙুল তুলেছে। গৌরাঙ্গবাবুর প্রচারে যোগ দেওয়া সিপিএমের যুব নেতা স্বপন দাঁর অভিযোগ, ‘‘প্রায় ১৫ মিনিট ধরে আমাদের মারধর করা হয়। মহিলা কর্মীদেরও রেহাই দেওয়া হয়নি।’’ সিপিএম রাজ্য কমিটির সদস্য বংশগোপাল চৌধুরীর অভিযোগ, ‘‘শান্তিপূর্ণ প্রচারে পরিকল্পনা করে তৃণমূল আশ্রিত দুষ্কৃতীরা হামলা চালিয়েছে।’’****************Lok Sabha Election 2019: TMC supporters allegedly beaten CPM candidate in Asansol - Anandabazar
রাফাল কাণ্ডে ফাঁস হয়ে যাওয়া গোপন রিপোর্ট প্রামান্য নথি হিসেবে দেখতে রাজি সুপ্রিম কোর্ট। আজ এই রায় দিল সুপ্রিম কোর্টের তিন সদস্যের বেঞ্চ। এর আগে সংবাদমধ্যমে ফাঁস হয়ে যাওয়া নথি প্রামাণ্য হিসেবে পেশ করা যাবে না এই যুক্তি দেখিয়েছিল কেন্দ্র। তাদের যুক্তি ছিল, দেশের গোপন নথি বাইরে এলে বিপন্ন হবে দেশের নিরাপত্তা।
Monday, April 8, 2019
he prime minister launched his re-election campaign by renaming himself ‘Chowkidar Narendra Modi’ on Twitter, and called on his ministers, cadre and supporters to follow suit. ‘Chowkidar’ Ravi Shankar Prasad, who is India’s I-T Minister, bragged to the press about the numbers the#MainBhiChowkidar campaign had achieved online. There was even a feel-good music video publicising Modi’s campaign. The word ‘chowkidar’, or watchman in English, carries with it an implicit promise of protection. So just how good is Chowkidar Narendra Modi’s track record?
New Delhi: More than 100 members of the filmmaking industry have released a statement urging people not to vote for the BJP. Most of the signatories are independent filmmakers, who released the statement under the umbrella of “Save Democracy”. The signatories include well-known names like Anand Patwardhan, Q, Sanalkumar Sasidharan, Pushpendra Singh, Sudevan, Q, Vetri Maaran, Deepa Dhanraj, Gurvinder Singh, Kabir Singh Chowdhry, Praveen Morchhale, Anjali Monteiro, Devashish Makhija and festival director and editor, Bina Paul.
More than 700 theatre artists from different parts of the country have released a join statement to appeal to voters to “vote out divisive politics from power”. The statement, released in 12 languages – English, Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Marathi, Malayalam, Kannada, Assamese, Telugu, Panjabi, Konkani,Urdu and Gujarati – was signed by prominent personalities such as Girish Karnad, Naseeruddin Shah, Ratna Pathak Shah, Anurag Kashyap and Lillette Dubey among others.
New Delhi: In a statement released on Monday (April 8), just three days before voting for the 2019 elections begins, more than 100 visual artists have urged voters not the re-elect the Bharatiya Janata Party. The Modi government’s rule, they say, “has created a pervasive atmosphere of fear and all-consuming hatred, which has infiltrated our homes”. Similar statements have also been issued by theatre persons, scientists, Signatories of the statement include Orijit Sen, Babu Eshwar Prasad, Sukanya Ghosh, Georgina Maddox and Dakxin Chhara. The full text of the statement is below.
Sunday, April 7, 2019
A recent college admissions scandal in the United States, which revealed that wealthy parents had bribed officials at elite universities, exposed the price some people are willing to pay to say, “I went to an Ivy League school.” In a country where the myth of academic meritocracy persists despite plenty of evidence to the contrary, many people were shocked to learn that the education system was rife with illegal and unethical conduct.
On Sunday Rakesh Sharma, director of Final Solution, the acclaimed documentary on the Gujarat riots of 2002, released a dozen clips online that were not part of the original two-and-a-half-hour version of the film. The film severely indicts Narendra Modi, the state's chief minister and the Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate.
After written appeals by filmmakers, authors, scientists and theatre artistes, it’s now the turn of celebrities, mainly members of the Hindi film fraternity, to take to short videos to urge people to vote with care and concern for the country and its people. ‘Vote Sambhal Ke’ (Guard your vote), is the implicit advice. The two-to-three minute-long videos, up on YouTube, have been directed and edited by former journalist turned scriptwriter-filmmaker Satyen K. Bordoloi.
Siliguri: Bengal government employees requisitioned for the coming Lok Sabha polls have threatened to skip election duty unless every polling booth is manned by Central security forces. In several places in North Dinjapur districts in north Bengal such employees today briefly stalled poll duty training sessions and said that they will not go to the polling booths unless the authorities ensure deployment of Central forces.
The Opposition parties in West Bengal, in a meeting with the Election Commission of India full bench on Thursday, demanded heavy deployment of Central forces in the state during the upcoming Lok Sabha polls to ensure a free and fair election. The political parties also demanded that the Central forces should not be kept under the control of State police officials as “they act as per orders of the TMC leaders”. The full bench of the ECI, led by Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora, met representatives of various political parties here.
Kolkata, April 6 (IANS) Demanding deployment of Central forces at polling stations for their security, polling officials across districts in West Bengal on Saturday threatened not to take part in the electoral process without Central troopers. A group of polling officials organised protests in Coochbehar, Howrah and South Kolkata as they are “afraid” of their security following the death of a poll official, Rajkumar Ray, whose body was found on train track near north Bengal’s Raiganj station during last year’s panchayat election. “If we do not get the assurance of Central force deployment, we will not go to the polling booths. We are not protesting on behalf of any party, but for our lives,” said a protesting member at Coochbehar.
Kolkata, April 6 (IANS) Demanding deployment of Central forces at polling stations for their security, polling officials across districts in West Bengal on Saturday threatened not to take part in the electoral process without Central troopers. A group of polling officials organised protests in Coochbehar, Howrah and South Kolkata as they are "afraid" of their security following the death of a poll official, Rajkumar Ray, whose body was found on train track near north Bengal's Raiganj station during last year's panchayat election.
ver 1,500 government employees on Tuesday threatened to skip poll duty in the Raiganj Lok Sabha seat if central forces were not deployed at each booth, with many of the staff walking out of pre-election training sessions to make the demand. The 1,500 staff make up around 15 per cent of the 10,000 required for the 2,000-odd booths. The protesters have cited the case of a teacher found dead under mysterious circumstances during last year’s rural polls in which he was a presiding officer.
Demanding deployment of Central forces at polling stations for their security, polling officials across districts in West Bengal on Saturday threatened not to take part in the electoral process without Central troopers. A group of polling officials organised protests in Coochbehar, Howrah and South Kolkata as they are "afraid" of their security following the death of a poll official, Rajkumar Ray, whose body was found on train track near north Bengal's Raiganj station during last year's panchayat election.
Bengal poll officials demand Central forces at booths: Demanding deployment of Central forces at polling stations for their security, polling officials across districts in West Bengal on Saturday threatened not to take part in the electoral process without Central troopers.