LF sticks to decision on law violation on May 31

The CPI(M)-led Left Front today decided to stick to its decision to hold a law violation programme here on May 31 defying the West Bengal government's temporary ban on it.
"Left Front partners have condemned the Trinamool Congress government's decision to gag democracy by banning law violation programmes and unanimously decided to launch one here on May 31 at the call of Calcutta district Left Front on 8-point demands," Biman Bose said after a meeting of the opposition coalition.
Alleging that democracy was in peril, Bose said that permission was not required for law violations.
"We are ready to court arrest and even face lathicharge if the police resort to coercive tactics to suppress a democratic movement on May 31," Bose said.

The CPI(M) leader claimed that the state government was ignorant about the country's political movements which were marked by law violations during the pre-independence period.
He said that veteran Forward Bloc leader Ashok Ghosh wanted to be take part in the law violation programme but was asked to only address the rally.
The law violation would be to demand a CBI probe into the chitfund scam and compensation for defrauded investors as well as a judicial inquiry into SFI leader Sudipta Gupta's death in police custody.
The Kolkata Police at a meeting with political parties on Saturday decided to put a temporary ban on law violations in view of poor infrastructure to tackle such programmes and holding of rallies at the Metro channel at Esplanade.