The huge turnout at the Hullabol rally of the red army, held under the banner of the CPI-ML (Liberation) yesterday, has send sent shock waves through the ruling Janata Dal. The rally, held against the corrupt Laloo Prasad Yadav government and communalism, was a roaring success, with people from all classes of life participating. There is trouble brewing for Chief Minister laloo Prasad Yadav as the major vote banks of the Janata Dal the dalits, peasants, tribals and the extremely backward classes participated in the rally.
The national general secretary of the CPI-ML, Vinod Mishra, was given a standing ovation when he rose to address the massive rally. I will hang the scamsters by the lampposts when the left parties capture power in Bihar, Mishra roared.
The CPI-ML supremo came down heavily on the other two left parties the CPI and the CPM for not extending their support to the hullabol rally. Mishra described the two parties as working like an appendage to the ruling party, thereby weakening the left movement in Bihar.
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The ultra-left leader, before launching a broadside against the corrupt Laloo government, expressed his gratitude to the vast magnitude of barefoot men, women and tiny-tots who had thronged the city since Monday.
In total contrast to the BJP sponsored rally on February 28, there were no hired vehicles. The red army reached Patna in trickles, by buses, trucks, trains, tractors and bullock carts.
The participants were landless farmers, ordinary workers and ladies carrying their months-old children. Traffic in the state capital went haywire as the rally participants, numbering several lakh, marched through the main thouroughfare.
The CPI-ML supremo, while giving a call for Bihar Bandh on April 2, to protest against the corrupt Laloo government, demanded that the messiah or corrupt people should tender his resignation in the wider interest of the state. Mishra, who is credited with bringing different left organisations under one umbrella, once again talked about left unity to give a befitting reply to the forces opposed to equal distribution of land and providing equal right to the toiling masses.
Addressing the vast rally Mishra said that it appeared that the people had lost faith in the leadership of Laloo Prasad Yadav. During the past seven years the mandal messiah has hoodwinked the poor masses in the name of social justice, he said.
While the dalits and tribals attended the CPI-ML rally, the earlier BJP sponsored rally, which was christened Bhrastachar Mitao Bihar Bachao rally, was attended by the forwards and the dalits. The successful BJP rally at Patna on February 28 had given out the message to the mandal Messiah that the forwards were strongly behind the BJP.
There is a stark difference between the JD rallies and the partys rally, since the ruling party uses the official machinery to bring people to the Gandhi maidan, while our committed workers come to Patna on their own, Mishra said.
Meanwhile, in New Delhi, the BJP painted a hopeless situation for Bihar under the leadership of Laloo Prasad Yadav, citing financial crisis and adverse law and order situation. The party demanded that the Janata Dal government in the state should be dismissed.
However, the partys state unit president Ashwini Kumar, who made the demand, doubted this would happen in view of the fact that the United Front government headed by the Janata Dal will never recommend such action against a state government headed by the Dal.
Therefore, the party has decided to go to the peoples court, he added. Bihar has become totally ungovernable and state administration has collapsed, he said. The net outcome is kidnapping, extortion and dacoity. The recent killing of Delhi sub inspector in an encounter is an example, he pointed out.