Seemanchal Padyatra Concludes in Purnea

The last stretch of the five-day 100 km ‘Badlo Bihar Nyay Yatra’- Seemanchal padyatra, which had started from Forbesganj on February 01 ended in Purnea on February 05 with a spirited assembly of activists from Araria, Purnea, Katihar and Kishanganj at Purnea Kala Bhawan. The foot march was led by CPIML General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya.

On the way to Kala Bhawan, the yatra paid homage to Babasaheb Ambedkar at Ambedkar Sadan and Comrade Ajit Sarkar, the popular communist leader of this region and MLA from Purnea who was killed in 1998.

Across Seemanchal, the yatra witnessed heightened insecurity among the rural poor who face a growing threat of displacement in the wake of the ongoing land survey. Declining opportunities of local employment drive the youth into migration to faraway states in search of livelihood, turning the region into a captive export zone of cheap labour. The infrastructure of public education and health remains woefully inadequate.

Maize and Makhana (water lily or foxnuts) have emerged as the main items of agricultural production, but the people involved in this activity do not earn enough either by way of crop price or wages. And with little facilities for further processing and lack of necessary agro-based industries, the region does not benefit much from this local production.

The common people of Seemanchal are fighting for a life of dignity and security and an end to the continued neglect of the region by the 'double engine' Modi-Nitish regimes and the BJP's evil design to use the region as a laboratory for a relentless hate campaign. The Badlo Bihar Mahajutan on March 02, in the historic Gandhi Maidan of Patna will amplify this growing voice of change from Seemanchal.

CPIML MLA Rambali Yadav, AIPWA General Secretary Minar Tiwari, Baidyanath Yadav, Neyaz Ahamad, Aftab Alam, Abhishek Kumar, Devendra Sah, Jamaluddin Zamir Alam, Araria party secretary Ramvilas Yadav, and many others also joined the Badlo Bihar Nyay Yatra.

 



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