The people of Sunderbans will give their fitting reply to the sitting TMC MP, Choudhary Mohan Jatua for his failure to do anything tangible to help the people affected by cyclone Aila.
A delegation of MLAs went to Delhi in 2012 with some specific demands for Aila affected people of Sunderbans. But the sitting MP of Mathurapur wrote to the central government asking them not to sanction a single penny for the affected people. But the Left delegation successfully convinced the central government to allot Rs. 5,032 crore for Aila affected areas. Yet the TMC government did not spend this money for the rehabilitation of the affected people.
This time, CPI(M) candidate, Rinku Naskar, is fighting Choudhary Mohan Jatua in this constituency. She’s only 29 years old and from a lower middle class family. While TMC has given tickets to celebrities, the Left Front has decided to field people’s activists like Rinku Naskar. Motivated by her militant leadership, local residents of Kakdweep have joined the Left campaign with much enthusiasm.
For the last two months she has been campaigning and meeting every poor person of the constituency listening to their problems with patience. Her campaign starts early in the morning and ends late in the night. When asked when she would return home, she replies saying, “It is the sitting Trinamool MP whose time has come to pack his bags and go home. I have a long way to go.”
In 2009 elections, the difference in votes between CPI(M ) and Trinamool was 1,30,000. In 2011 assembly elections it was 80,000 and even after widespread rigging and booth capturing in the 2013 panchayat elections, the difference of votes decreased to 30,000. This shows how Trinamool’s popularity is decreasing by day. As if destruction from Aila was not enough, the disastrous effects of Saradha scam added more salt to their wounds.
As part of the campaign, CPI(M) leaders and activists of the area went to thousands of houses for group meetings covering 99 panchayat areas and 1900 polling booths of Mathurapur constituency. Rinku Naskar said that working people are responding with warmth boosting her confidence levels.
Rinku Naskar has appealed to the people to be cautious and alert when they go to cast their votes. This time TMC goons are terrorizing the people and is not allowing them to exercise their democratic rights. These hoodlums are especially active in 17 of the 99 panchayat areas, she said. People belonging to Madhusudanpur, Suryanagar, Sringar, Bapuji, Maugrahat and Ektara, among other villages, are most terrorized by Trinamool’s violence. The CPI(M) has brought this to the notice of the Election Commission about these sensitive areas. However, no tangible measure has been taken by the Election Commission tillnow.
The TMC has failed to fulfill any of its many promises it made to the people. The promised construction of the railway track between Jaynagar and Raidighi, and from Namkhana to Baukhali has not yet started. Also the 22 bridges which the TMC had promised to build. Mamata Banerjee claims that these have already been built but nobody can find these imaginary bridges!
In the last 5 years, the sitting Trinamool M.P from Mathurapur attended parliament for 32 days days. People of the area have also raised questions on where the MPLADs money has been spent.
May 8, 2014