2 min readKolkataDec 15, 2015 12:28 AM IST
First published on: Dec 15, 2015 at 12:28 AM IST
The Bengal Platform of Mass Organisations — an umbrella body of Left parties and other outfits — Monday said their protests would now focus on specific demands, for which “small groups of Left activists would go around all polling booths in the state in support of a 15-point programme”.
Beginning with a 170-km-long jatha (march) from Singur from January 16, BPMO will take its protest against “the Trinamool Congress’s failure to increase the count of industry and employment in the state” to Salboni.
“The West Bengal government has completely failed in bringing about the change that they had promised. There has been no industry or any employment,” said CITU leader Shyamal Chakraborty, BPMO’s convener.
Earlier on December 12, a 130-km-long cycle rally was undertaken by the BPMO to highlight the rise in incidents of crime against women. Organised by the youth, students and women organisations of the Left parties, the rally began at Kakdwip in South 24 Parganas district and ended two days later at Kamduni in North 24 Parganas.
While a 16-year-old girl was gang-raped and killed in Kakdwip in November, the rape and murder of a college student in Kamduni in 2013 had ignited widespread outrage.
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