Khabardar rally in Patna emerges as the voice of poor, seeks unity of left parties

Addressing the Khabardar rally in Patna in front of the party headquarters of Bhartiya Janta Party, Janata Dal United and Accountant General's Office on Beer Chand Patel Marg, Dipankar Bhattacharya, General Secretary CPI-ML Liberation appealed for the unity of left parties to defeat communal and corporate forces that are plundering nation's natural resources from land, spectrum to coal. It was a massive rally of the poor and the marginalized people of Bihar, unlike Hunkar rally which was big but comprised largely of the middle class.

CPIML leaders accused JDU of having nourished BJP for 17 years in Bihar.  Bhattacharya underlined that 2014 election is not a Prime Ministerial election, it is going to be a election to elect the legislators. These legislators will choose the Prime Minister. In any case it is not about Prime Ministerial candidate, it is going to be an election about policies which affect the poor.

Venue of Khabardar rally was shifted from Gandhi Maidan due to bomb explosion amidst Hunkar rally on October 27. Even after three days the police continued to find bombs in Gandhi Maidan which was looking red with flags of CPI-ML Liberation. Gandhi Maidan had witnessed red flags in hundreds of thousands when CPI held its Jan Akrosh Rally on October 25. Before that there was rally of the SUCI (Communist) too. These rallies demonstrate that left parties are a robust force in Bihar. CPI-ML Liberation has planned another rally in Delhi on November 15. In the state capital the party plans to initiate a Occupy Patna campaign against privatization and contractualization. Bhattacharya wondered why Gandhi Maidan could not be cleared of bombs even after three days. Who is farming bombs in the Maidan? 

What remains unsaid is that some invisible forces are engineering a scenario wherein those left, socialist and regional political forces which are opposed to National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) are forced to accept it.  

Meanwhile, Nitish Kumar expressed his desire to join hands with left parties ahead of the 2014 elections. The core question is: will non-Congress and non-BJP alliance reverse the policies initiated by Congress and BJP in the face of naked display of corporate role in political and electoral field?