Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) targets CPI(M) and Trinamool at mega rally in Kolkata

The SUCI(C) had organised its gathering at the Brigade Parade Grounds after a gap of 35 years

The Socialist Unity Centre of India-Communist (SUCI-C) on Saturday organised a mega rally at Kolkata’s iconic Brigade Parade Grounds, where the party leadership questioned the credibility of the INDIA (Indian National Developmental, and Inclusive Alliance) grouping, and targeted both the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the parties in the Left Front.

The SUCI(C) had organised its gathering at the Brigade Parade Grounds after a gap of 35 years and thousands of party supporters, not only from West Bengal but from 25 other States, participated in the event. The rally was organised to mark the birth centenary of Marxist thinker and founder of the SUCI(C), Shibdas Ghosh.

SUCI(C) general secretary Provash Ghosh and president K. Radhakrishna were among those who addressed the gathering. The SUCI(C) leadership, which was never a part of the CPI(M)-led Left Front, took a swipe at the dwindling political influence of Left parties in West Bengal.

“From 1977, the CPI(M)-led Left Front was in power for 34 years. Today, what is their strength on the ground? For electoral gains, they have joined forces with the Congress and made a pir (religious leader) secular. At the national level, you have seen they have formed INDIA, where the Trinamool Congress, which they are fighting, is also there. This is what the CPI(M) has been reduced to,” Mr. Ghosh said.

The SUCI(C) general secretary pointed out that even Left Front allies like the Revolutionary Socialist Party and the All India Forward Bloc have been weakened.

During the 2011 Assembly polls in West Bengal, the SUCI(C) had allied with the Trinamool Congress. The party leadership, however, had not joined the TMC government and was critical of it on several issues. However, from 2014 to 2019, the party supported the Left Front and organised joint protests .

The party leadership from the rally called for a broader unity of Left forces, but added that there could be no double standards on their unity by having an alliance with the Congress party and the TMC.