Lift TADA or face people's ire, govt told

PATNA: National general secretary of CPI(ML) Dipankar Bhattacharya declared that the Lalu-Rabri government in Bihar would have to face the brunt of the people''s ire if it did not lift TADA cases against innocent farm labourers and poor peasants, stop state atrocities, check criminal activities and provide succour to the drought-affected.
While the state government has failed to address these basic issues, it has succeeded in patronising and hobnobbing with criminals at the cost of people, Bhattacharya said adding that people had suffered enough.Now they had regrouped themselves to oust the incompetent regime.
Bhattacharya was addressing a conference here on Monday to mark the end of the padyatra of CPI(ML) workers from Kaler (Arwal district) to Patna. Several leaders including socialist leader Surendra Mohan, noted Gandhian Razi Ahmed, Samajwadi Party leader Shankar Prasad Tekriwal, CPI leader Jalaluddin Ansari, Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi (CPM), Shankar Sharan, IAS (retd), Radhika Menon, Rameshwar Prasad, Satyanarain Prasad, Dhirendra Jha, Rajaram Singh, K D Yadav (all ML leaders), Shashi Yadav (AIPWA), Kamlesh Sharma also spoke on the occasion.
Bhattacharya said that violence and criminal activities had taken centrestage in the Lalu-Rabri regime while all developmental issues were relegated to the back. Referring to the killing of five party workers in Paliganj, allegedly by RJD MLA, Dinanath Yadav, he said in fact there were many Dinanath Yadavs fluorishing in RJD regime. "People are fed up with the regime and have taken vow to remove it from the political scene", he said.
"What is more unfortunate is the fact that the ruling couple do not have either any vision or plan to steer the state out of the present morass," Bhattacharya said adding that as a result, the state had been left to criminals. Rulers today show disrespect to the Constitution. Surendra Mohan said that all cases under TADA be revoked at once.