Thursday, April 25, 2019
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
DINDORI LOK SABHA ELECTION CAMPAIGN OF CPI (M) IN FULL SWING
The election
campaign of CPI (M) central committee member, former AIKS state president and
one of the outstanding leaders of the two Kisan Long Marches, J P Gavit, MLA,
for the Dindori (ST) Lok Sabha seat, is now in full swing. It began on April 4,
2019 with a massive 25,000-strong public meeting at Chandwad that was addressed
by CPI (M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury. The voting for this constituency is
on April 29.
For three
days from April 19 to 21, over 3,000 peasant activists led by J P Gavit took
out a novel and impressive 300 km-long vehicular jatha that traversed all the 6
assembly segments and 8 of the 10 tehsils that come under this seat. Most of
these peasants had taken part in the two Kisan Long Marches. Starting from
Dindori tehsil, it traveled through Niphad, Yeola, Nandgaon, Malegaon, Chandwad
and Deola tehsils and concluded with a large rally and public meeting at the
prominent Baij village of Kalwan tehsil. The ninth tehsil is Surgana, which is
our bastion, and the tenth is Peth where also we have a good presence.
The
enthusiastic concluding meeting on April 21 night was addressed, apart from the
candidate himself, by CPI(M) central committee member and AIKS national
president Dr Ashok Dhawale, CPI(M) state secretariat member and AIKS state
general secretary Dr Ajit Nawale, CPI(M) state secretariat member and Nashik
district secretary Sunil Malusare and CPI district secretary Raju Desle, among
others. The above four leaders addressed another large public meeting earlier the
same evening at the large Khedgaon village in Dindori tehsil. Several large
rallies and public meetings were held en route the jatha. Thousands of leaflets
were distributed and live contact with voters was made.
Neither the
BJP nor the NCP candidate can even think of summoning the strength to organise
any such constituency-wide programme. Both of them have opportunistic turncoat
candidates, the BJP nominee having been drawn from the NCP and the NCP nominee
having been drawn from the Shiv Sena – both of them just on the eve of
elections.
The vehicular
jatha, which made a powerful impact throughout the constituency, was led at
various places by leaders of the CPI (M), CPI and other friendly parties and
organisations. The leaders included AIKS state president Kisan Gujar, AIKS state
office bearers Sunil Malusare, Subhash Choudhary, Savliram Pawar, Irfan Shaikh,
DYFI state vice president Indrajit Gavit, CPI leader Raju Desle, MNS ex-MLA
Nitin Bhosale and many others.
Support to
the CPI (M) candidate is pouring in from several quarters. The Prahar
Janashakti Party led by Bachchu Kadu, MLA, a prominent peasant leader from
Amravati district of Vidarbha, the Lok Bharati Party led by Kapil Patil, MLC
from the Konkan Teachers Constituency, the Valunj Water Struggle Committee, the
Pensioners Association and many others have declared and are actually giving
their active support to the campaign.
Over 6 lakh
attractive leaflets of different kinds have been printed by the CPI (M) and
AIKS and are being distributed through house-to-house contact. Along with the
cardinal political call of the Party to defeat the BJP and information about
the candidate, they are also setting out the burning issues of the people and
the peasantry that the Party and AIKS has solved and is determined to solve if
elected. Dindori is predominantly a rural constituency.
A media and
communication war room has been set up in Nashik city. It is headed by CPI (M)
state committee members Shubha Shamim and Vijay Patil and includes SFI state
president Rohidas Jadhav and SFI leaders Navnath More, Shiva Togarwar, Uttam
Gavit, Pravin Gavit and others. It is being ably supported by the Party’s
social media team in Mumbai led by Prasad Subramaniam. The war room is in the
forefront of disseminating specially made attractive video clips about the
candidate and the struggles led by him under the CPI (M) and AIKS banners, and
other relevant material on WhatsApp and Facebook and is also sending out bulk
SMSs throughout the constituency.
On April 24,
a large public meeting will be addressed by J P Gavit, Ashok Dhawale, Ajit
Nawale and others in Kalwan town. On April 25, another large public meeting
will be addressed by Bachchu Kadu, MLA and the above CPI(M) and AIKS leaders at
Deola. CPI (M) state secretary Narasayya Adam, CITU state president Dr D L
Karad, CITU state general secretary M H Shaikh and CITU leader Ajit Abhyankar
will also address public meetings in the working class areas of the
constituency.
An SFI-DYFI
team led by their key state office-bearers Sunil Dhanwa, Preethy Sekhar, Balaji
Kaletwad and Rohidas Jadhav will lead a 50 Km 200-strong march through the
Niphad and Yeola assembly segments on April 25-26. They will appeal to youth
and students to vote against the disastrous policies of the Modi regime and for
the CPI (M) candidate.
Vijay Patil
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