Left parties to observe statewide protests against Mamata Banerjee government

KOLKATA: Accusing the Mamata Banerjee government of initiating "several anti-people policies" in the state, 17 Left parties today decided to undertake a month-long statewide protest against the government next month.

All these parties would also help Left trade union bodies to make the nationwide September 2 strike against the BJP for its anti-people policies, successful.

After a meeting of the 17 Left parties at the CPI(M) state headquarters here, Left Front chairman Biman Bose said they were extending support to a march by the Leftist peasants' organisations on August 10 to Nabanna, the state secretariat, to protest against "anti-people policies of the Mamata Banerjee government."

The Left parties were also planning to hold a sit-in demonstration from August 17 to 19 in the city to protest against alleged anti-people policies of the state government.

The CPI(M) and the Left Front have managed to convince a number of Naxalite factions like the CPIML (Liberation) and Communist Revolutionary League of India (CRLI) to join them in organising movements against both Narendra Modi and Mamata Banerjee governments.