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Buddhadeb wrong, shutdown a fundamental right: CPI-M
India's News.Net
Thursday 28th August, 2008 (IANS)
Refuting West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's widely publicised comments that he was against 'bandhs', the Communist Party of India-Marxist Thursday asserted that it firmly stood for the right to strike by the working class as a fundamental right.
'The CPI-M firmly stands for the right to strike by the working class as a fundamental right,' the party politburo said in a statement.
'It has consistently supported the all India general strikes of the trade unions against the neo-liberal policies of the central government and other urgent issues of the working class and toiling people,' it said.
The West Bengal chief minister, known as the poster-boy of 'modern communists', had invited severe criticism from his colleagues in the CPI-M and allies for his remark against shutodwns.
Addressing a business gathering in Kolkata Tuesday, Bhattacharjee said: 'Personally, I don't support strikes. Bandhs (shutdowns) do not help the country' and added that he found siege and shutdowns 'immoral'.
'Unfortunately, I belong to a political party. They call strikes and I keep mum,' he said.
Bhattacharjee's remarks left the leaders of the Centre for Trade Union (CITU), the trade union wing of the CPI-M, fuming. They said calling for a bandh was the very 'legitimate right' of a political party.
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