Bengal
3,000 CPM workers quit party
- The Statesman
- 27 Jul 2014
Lakshman seth’s wife leads mass desertion from left party in east midnapore
biswabrata goswami
Tamluk, 26 July: In the backdrop of CPI-M’s dismal show in Lok Sabha election, the party faced a mass desertion today as around 3000 party workers and leaders including six district secretariat and 26 district committee members of East Midnapre have resigned from the party today.
The resignation letters were sent to the district secretary hours before the district committee meeting held at the party’s district headquarter in presence of the party’s state secretariat member Mr Rabin Deb and the politburo leader Mr Surya Kanta Mishra.
Mrs Tamalika Panda Seth, wife of expelled leader Lakshman Seth and former chairperson of Haldia municipality said, “We have decided to quit the party as the present leaderships are paying no heed to their comments while taking any decision on certain issues inside the party. The party has become autocratic and only a few people are running the party.”
Besides Mrs Seth, Ashok Guria, Amiya Sahoo, Pranab Das, Prasanta Patra and Saktipada Bera, all the district secretariat members and known as Lokshman Seth loyalists sent their resignation letters highlighting the same allegation against the party’s top brasses.
Mr Ded who convened the district committee meeting where barely 39 out of 69 district committee members attended later said, “As per the rules and guidelines, the party would take necessary steps against the deserted members.”
The East Midnapore unit of the CPI-M is in disarray since Mr Seth was expelled before the Lok Sabha polls.
A day after CPI-M's controversial leader and Haldia strongman Mr Seth sent his “resignation” letter to Alimuddin Street, hundreds of his followers had savagely beat up about 20 party leaders and manhandled two state secretariat members ~ Rabin Deb and Mridul Dey ~ to vent their ire against the party's top leadership for giving a “raw deal” to Mr Seth.
The protesters accused the leaders of making Mr Seth a scapegoat for various incidents, starting from Nandigram to his NGO organisation ~ ICARE ~ and demanded immediate withdrawal of the investigation being carried out by the party against Mr Seth.
“The party leadership was well aware of what Mr Seth did during his tenure,” an angry protester had then said.
Later the party had expelled him and since then the party’s district unit started losing its mass base as hundreds of Seth’s loyalists across the district started campaigning against the party leaders.
When asked, Mr Seth today criticised the leadership alleging “autocracy and individualism are replacing democracy” in the party.
He called for restructuring the organisation, saying the present middle-class leaders would not be able to cause a turnaround
in the party's fortunes by taking on the ruling Trinamul Congress.
Venting his ire against the former Chief Minister Mr Buddhadev Bhattacherjee, Mr Seth said, “Nandan was virtually turned as a amusing spot of
the party leaders from where the party leadership used to run the party. There is an imme
diate need to change the party’s leadership”.
biswabrata goswami
Tamluk, 26 July: In the backdrop of CPI-M’s dismal show in Lok Sabha election, the party faced a mass desertion today as around 3000 party workers and leaders including six district secretariat and 26 district committee members of East Midnapre have resigned from the party today.
The resignation letters were sent to the district secretary hours before the district committee meeting held at the party’s district headquarter in presence of the party’s state secretariat member Mr Rabin Deb and the politburo leader Mr Surya Kanta Mishra.
Mrs Tamalika Panda Seth, wife of expelled leader Lakshman Seth and former chairperson of Haldia municipality said, “We have decided to quit the party as the present leaderships are paying no heed to their comments while taking any decision on certain issues inside the party. The party has become autocratic and only a few people are running the party.”
Besides Mrs Seth, Ashok Guria, Amiya Sahoo, Pranab Das, Prasanta Patra and Saktipada Bera, all the district secretariat members and known as Lokshman Seth loyalists sent their resignation letters highlighting the same allegation against the party’s top brasses.
Mr Ded who convened the district committee meeting where barely 39 out of 69 district committee members attended later said, “As per the rules and guidelines, the party would take necessary steps against the deserted members.”
The East Midnapore unit of the CPI-M is in disarray since Mr Seth was expelled before the Lok Sabha polls.
A day after CPI-M's controversial leader and Haldia strongman Mr Seth sent his “resignation” letter to Alimuddin Street, hundreds of his followers had savagely beat up about 20 party leaders and manhandled two state secretariat members ~ Rabin Deb and Mridul Dey ~ to vent their ire against the party's top leadership for giving a “raw deal” to Mr Seth.
The protesters accused the leaders of making Mr Seth a scapegoat for various incidents, starting from Nandigram to his NGO organisation ~ ICARE ~ and demanded immediate withdrawal of the investigation being carried out by the party against Mr Seth.
“The party leadership was well aware of what Mr Seth did during his tenure,” an angry protester had then said.
Later the party had expelled him and since then the party’s district unit started losing its mass base as hundreds of Seth’s loyalists across the district started campaigning against the party leaders.
When asked, Mr Seth today criticised the leadership alleging “autocracy and individualism are replacing democracy” in the party.
He called for restructuring the organisation, saying the present middle-class leaders would not be able to cause a turnaround
in the party's fortunes by taking on the ruling Trinamul Congress.
Venting his ire against the former Chief Minister Mr Buddhadev Bhattacherjee, Mr Seth said, “Nandan was virtually turned as a amusing spot of
the party leaders from where the party leadership used to run the party. There is an imme
diate need to change the party’s leadership”.
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