CPI(ML) GENERAL SECRETARY AND TUSHAR GANDHI ROARED IN BHOJPUR

CPI(ML) GENERAL SECRETARY AND TUSHAR GANDHI ROARED IN BHOJPUR

3-NOV-ENG 14

RAJIV NAYAN AGRAWAL

ARA-------------------------CPI(ML) General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya arrived in Ara today on a one-day election tour. Addressing a workers' conference of India alliance parties held at the Congress Maidan campus, he appealed for the victory of CPI(ML) candidate Qayamuddin Ansari.

Addressing the gathering, the CPI(ML) General Secretary said that this time, the India alliance comprises seven parties, not just five. This has generated new enthusiasm among Dalits and Mahadalits across Bihar. This alliance of seven parties will win all seven seats in the district and oust vote thieves, job thieves, reservation thieves, and land thieves from power.

Dipankar Bhattacharya said that change has become Bihar's biggest agenda today. Youth who face lathicharge for demanding employment, landless people deprived of housing land, farmers facing the brunt of land acquisition, and half the population groaning under the burden of debt are not ready to tolerate the BJP-JDU double-engine government, which has been in power for the last 20 years, even for a moment. The slogan "Change the Government, Change Bihar" has become a rallying cry for the people.

He said that Nitish Kumar's announcement just before the elections to provide ₹10,000 to every woman through the Chief Minister's Women's Employment Scheme is a blatant lie; in reality, it is the Chief Minister's Women's Loan Scheme, as Home Minister Amit Shah recently stated in Patna.

He said that this Bihar election will determine whether the Constitution, democracy, and reservation will survive in the country. If we are to save them, this vote-stealing, reservation-stealing, and bribe-taking government must be ousted from power. He said that today, development in Bihar has become synonymous with "flyover bypasses" and the true face of good governance. There is a nexus between criminals, police, and corrupt officials. The lease of 1,050 acres of land in Pirpati, Bhagalpur, to Gautam Adani for one rupee is an example of this extreme corruption.

He said that no matter how much the BJP claims, Nitish Kumar is not its next Chief Minister. Even if we hadn't said so, Tejashwi Yadav was the Chief Minister of the India Alliance, and now we have announced it openly.

We will defeat the vote-stealing, corrupt government. Referring to the India Alliance's fight against the SIR, he said, "We have fought to protect the voting rights of millions of poor people. Now, by demonstrating our strength at the polling booths, we will defeat the vote-stealing, corrupt government."

He called microfinance companies the new moneylenders, saying that women burdened with debt across Bihar are raising the slogan, "10,000 is not enough, nothing less than debt relief." If the India Alliance government comes to power, they will be completely relieved of their small loans, and women will receive 2,500 rupees per month.

Mahatma Gandhi's great-grandson and leader of the Bharat Ke Log Abhiyan, Tushar Gandhi, said that this election will determine the future of the country. We must not only change the Chief Minister of Bihar, but also the Prime Minister of the country in the future. He strongly appealed to save the soul of Bihar and the country by defeating the divisive and hateful forces and the governments that have been strangling Bihar's development for the past twenty years.

BR Patil said that to overcome the terrible poverty and migration in Bihar, the government of robbers and vote-stealers must be ousted from power.

Dr. Sunilam said that the movements that began in Bihar under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi and JP brought freedom to the country and protected democracy. We must take this fight forward by electing the CPI(ML) candidate. In addition, the workers' conference was attended by Mahatma Gandhi's great-grandson, Tushar Gandhi, renowned farmer leader Dr. Sunilam, former Planning Commission member Dr. BR Patil, Ara MP Sudama Prasad, and senior leaders and candidates from the RJD and CPI(ML).