People Throng Streets in Bihar against Inflation, Unemployment, Fascism
There was a huge participation of various sections of society in the protest marches called on 7 August at all District HQs by the Mahagathbandhan parties in Bihar against inflation, unemployment, fascism, Bulldozer Raj, attacks on Muslims and women, and for the demand to declare Bihar a drought-affected state. Large numbers of common people as well as activists of CPIML and other Mahagathbandhan parties thronged the streets in capital Patna and other Districts to warn the BJP government that this situation will not be tolerated.
CPIML Bihar State Secretary Kunal thanked the people of Bihar for their historic participation and support and said that Bihar has once again shown that it stands against the fascist BJP government. The CPIML said that this is the first time in history that food items are being taxed. Homes of the poor are being demolished. Relentless attacks are being perpetrated on Muslims and women. It was from the land of Bihar that the revolution led by JP against dictatorship started. Now when the country is once again suffering undeclared Emergency, the people of Bihar have come out on the streets to challenge the autocracy inflicted by Modi-Shah.
The march in capital Patna was attended by Leader of Opposition Tejashwi Yadav, CPIML MLAs Mahboob Alam, Sandeep Saurabh, Gopal Ravidas and Amarjeet Kushwaha and leaders including Dhirendra Jha, Meena Tiwari, Shashi Yadav, Rajaram and Abhyuday. After garlanding the statue of JP, the march proceeded to Dak Bangla Chowk where it culminated in a meeting. Activists from RJD, CPIML, Congress, CPI-M, CPI attended the protest march.
Addressing the meeting, CPIML leaders said that the Mahagathbandhan is committed to waging a decisive battle against rising autocracy and the conspiracy to crush freedom of expression, and against the escalating situation of hate-mongering against Muslims, Bulldozer Raj, inflation and unemployment. They appealed to the people of Bihar to rise up against the governments in Delhi and Patna.
CPIML legislative group leader Mahboob Alam said that the report card released by us on 5 June identified the dire condition of Bihar under the BJP-JDU government on all human indices like per capita income, education, health and agriculture. As per the poverty index, 51.9% of the population in Bihar is poor. Bureaucratic loot and institutional corruption are breaking new records daily. Mob lynching, rising crime graph, violence against dalits and women, eviction of the poor, massacres by poisonous liquor, ruination of youth through drugs and other substances, rising unemployment, back-breaking inflation, migration of workers, devastation of agriculture, destruction of environment - these are the truths of Bihar today. Desperate poverty and debt trap have driven entire families to suicide in Vidyapatinagar (Samastipur) and Patepur (Vaishali). These are alarm bells for Bihar, but the government remains blind and deaf.
Protest marches under the Mahagathbandhan banner were organized at all District HQs in the state. All MLAs attended the march in their respective Districts.
