A Bihar State Activists’ Convention was held on 12 March at the Bharatiya Nritya Kala Mandir in Patna, to prepare for the coming LS elections. Addressing the convention Party General Secretary Com. Dipankar Bhattacharya said that the true contest this time would be between forces which escalate crisis and forces which seek solutions to the crisis. Narendra Modi is seeking to advance on the support of corporate loot on one hand and communal divide on the other. No Party but the CPI-ML can obstruct this communal frenzy. The public has watched the rat race with Ramvilas Paswan, Upendra Kushwaha and Ram Kripal Yadav rushing to join the BJP and has lost all trust in these people.
Com. Dipankar reminded the meeting that this was not the first attempt of BJP to grab power. The NDA was in power at the Centre from 1999 to 2004. In 2004 they lost the elections due to public anger against the Gujarat carnage and the series of farmer suicides. The fact that today the culprit of the Gujarat carnage Narendra Modi is being aggressively pushed as their PM candidate is an indication of the present crisis. This crisis is a result of the policies of the UPA. In addition to the already economic crisis, people’s lives were made more miserable by price rise and corruption resulting in a political crisis. Thus it is the Congress which has facilitated the rise of the BJP. Both these parties as well as JDU and RJD have cheated and deceived the poor people. In these circumstances, voting for BJP, Congress, JDU or RJD is equal to deepening the political-economic crisis. These are the forces which want to take forward those economic policies which are the cause of the troubles facing the country today.
Com. Dipankar said that students and youth want to follow not Modi but Bhagat Singh. Therefore on 23 March, the martyrdom day of Bhagat Singh, students and youth will march at various places and pledge to keep up the struggle for social change against such forces.
Earlier, the convention began with the presentation of a report by State secretary Kunal, detailing the struggles on people’s issues in Bihar. The constituency in-charges and candidates from the State addressed the meeting. These included Mithilanchal incharge PB member Com. Dhirendra Jha, Com. Rajaram Singh from AIKMS and Karakat, former MP and Patliputra party candidate Com. Rameshwar Prasad, Bhojpur district secretary Com. Jawahar Singh, Arrah candidate Com. Raju Yadav, Siwan secretary Com. Indrajeet and candidate Com. Amar Yadav, Jehanabad incharge Com. Mahanand and candidate Com. Ramadhar Singh, Patna rural party secretary PB member Com. Amar, Darbhanga candidate Com. Lakshmeshwar Mishra, Nalanda candidate Shashi Yadav, Katihar candidate Mahboob Alam and AIPWA general secretary Meena Tiwari. The convention was chaired by Com. KD Yadav, Com. Saroj Chaubey and Com. Rajaram.
