The Opposition parties comprising JMM, Congress, JVM and other left parties on Wednesday joined hands and demanded resignation of the BJP-headed Government in the State for its ‘anti-people’ policies.
Following a meeting on the initiative of former Union Minister and senior Congress leader Subodh Kant Sahay, a resolution was passed unanimously placing five decisions taken into it.
The Opposition bloc would seek resignation from the Government by visiting every district for the decision taken to amend CNT and SPT Acts and the domicile policies announced by it.
Besides, a series of coordination committees involving political parties and social organisations would be formed all across the State that would organise their amalgamation every month. Every likeminded organisations would participate in anti-Government programmes to support the idea behind the effort.
“All the parties would sit together and decide a date to hold a big rally to expose and oppose the decisions taken and policies adopted by the Government in the recent time. Forming a consensus among all the parties opposing the Government is the need of hour so that we can raise voice against exploitation of farmers, tribals and the poor taking place all over the State,” said Sahay.
Also present in the meeting was JVM supremo Babulal Marandi who pledged to expedite the protest against CNT-SPT amendments done into the Act. “The amendments done are not in the interest of the State and its people. We have been fighting against it and would intensify our protest in the time to come,” said the former Chief Minister.
State Congress president Sukhdeo Bhagat sensed the aggression building up against the changes made in the tenancy laws while referring land as identity of tribal community and the protection given in the form of CNT and SPT “was no a donation from anyone.”
Besides Marandi and Sahay, leaders such as Bandhu Tirkey, Congress legislative Party leader Alamgir Alam, Supriyo Bhattacharya of JMM, Bhuvneshwar Mehta of Communist Party of India, social activist Dayamani Barla were among the others present in the meeting in order give it a shape of a political cum social platform for the future.