The Forward Bloc has charged that the Modi Government was sabotaging the Constitution by negating its basic principles at its three-day national workshop here.
Its national secretary G Devarajan said, “The Modi Government is subjugating our sovereignty by accepting the dictates of external forces in the name of bilateral agreements such as logistic Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (lEMOA) with the United States of America. The minorities and the Dalits are living under severe fear psychosis due to mob lynching in the name of religion and the food habits of the people. By doing so, the Government is destroying the secular values of the country. By privatizing the national assets and disinvesting the PSUs, the Government is diluting the principles of socialism.”
He further alleged that the Central Government was bypassing the Parliament, encouraging horse-trading of elected representatives, misusing the power of Governors and adopting unilateral amendments to the existing laws etc.
Raghav Saran Sharma, eminent historian, explained about the importance of August movement in the independence movement of the country and opined that the ‘Quit India’ movement was originally launched by Subhash Chandra Bose in 1940 while conducting the Anti-Compromise Conference at Ramghar, Bihar.
Among others, general secretary of Forward Bloc Debabrata Biswas Jyoti Ranjan Mahapatra, Dharmender (Bihar), Rajat Das (West Bengal), Dharmender Verma (Delhi), Narendra Palandurkar (Maharashtra), M Pasumpon (Tamilnadu), SN Singh Chouhan (UP), Sanjay Bhattacharjee (UP), Dr Vijaya Dhote (Maharashtra), Amaresh (Bihar), T Manoj Kumar (Kerala) and Jiban Krishna Majumdar (Tripura) spoke.