20th October, 2011

PRESS STATEMENT BY CITU ON RENAMING “JYOTI BASU NAGAR” BY MAMATA OUT OF POLITICAL VENDETTA

Subject: The ploy to rename the Jyoti Basu Nagar is an ominous symptom

The following statement is issued by Shri Jibon Roy, Ex-Member of Parliament and National Secretary, CITU:

“ I do not consider that the ploy to rename Jyoti Basu Nagar, represents simply alone the madness or hypocrisy to denigrate the greatness of a leader who attained the international fame, declined to accept the highest governmental position in India and provided political stability to the state of West Bengal for more than two decades. Further, I do not believe that madam Mamata Banerjee could have allowed her government to risk its credibility exhibiting the meanness for disparaging a person of such great stature whom she visited number of times during his last years, had not there been serious extraneous constraints. Such step, I consider, must have been directed to satisfy the compulsion, bequeathed the conditionality for supporting the passage of her government by the forces who have gained most out of the
displacement of the Left Government and erosion of left polity as a consequence, within the biggest populated country next to China..

This nature of denigration, I consider, is a part of the conspiracy to reverse the approach which had been introduced, by the great leader through land reform, decentralization of administrative power, women empowerment, non-intervention of coercive state machinery over industrial dispute and bringing down the right of franchise to the age of 18 . He brought this break into the system of governance for the first time in the Indian History.

Hence, while submitting myself before the democratic opinion in the state of West Bengal to bring the government into sanity, I would urge the Government of India to see that the continuity in the process of governance is not allowed to be tempered, from whatsoever corner it comes. Her Government has already announced its intention to encroach upon the strike right which has been itself a ominous symptom and now being followed by the denigration of the great leader produced by the people of this state who dedicated his life for modernization of Indian polity”.

Jibon Roy