CPI(M) peasant wing to launch Jatha in November

The CPI(M) peasant wing is all set to launch its Jatha from next month in a bid to regain its lost ground and reenergize the rank and file after its dismal performance in the West Bengal Assembly poll earlier this year.
The CPI(M) central leadership and the peasant's wing has decided to launch a state-wide movement to protest against the anti-farmers policies of both the TMC government in the state and the BJP-led NDA at the Centre, party leaders said.
The Jatha will start from four states in the first week of November and will culminate on November 23 after a rally at the Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi.

The Bengal unit Jatha will start on November 8 and crisscross all the districts of the state with the 15 point charter for the development of the farmers, they said, adding CPI(M) wants to use the movement to energize the party cadres.
"It has been nearly six months since the election results. This period is generally treated as the honeymoon period for the new government. After the humiliating defeat (of CPI-M), the cadres have withdrawn themselves from regular activities. So to bring them back into the movement main stream we have asked our cadres in all the districts to participate in it," a senior CPI(M) state secretariat member told PTI.

According to sources in CPI(M), the party is going through a transition process at the mid and lower levels of its leadership following the two day state unit plenum in Kolkata.
"In the plenum it was decided to revamp our leadership at the grassroots level and expedite the decision making process. Once this process is over, we will start our movement and agitation program with an eye on the 2018 panchayat election and Lok Sabha polls in 2019," another CPI(M) central committee member from Bengal said.
"Every year several farmers across the country are committing suicides and the government is just a mute spectator. It is because of the policies of the central and state governments, except in the Left-ruled states, that the farmers are being forced to commit suicides," CPI(M) Politburo member and General Secretary of the All India Kisan Sabha Hannan Mollah told PTI.