CPI (ML) Lib to contest for 3 MP, 18 MLA seats in State

--Party’s Central Committee holds 3-day meet in city

BHUBANESWAR: The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation State council would field candidates for three Lok Sabha seats and 18 Assembly seats in the State. It was decided by the State leadership with the presence of Central leaders during the final day of a three-day meet of party’s Central Committee here on Sunday.

The State leaders said that they would contest in three important Lok Sabha seats Puri, Kalahandi and Koraput. These three areas would bring good result for the party in the General Election 2014, the leaders added.

Besides, the Central Committee said, the party would field candidates from around 70 seats in 14 States across the country.

During an important discussion with politburo members, party general secretary comrade Dipankar Bhattacharya analysed various political and social issues and called upon the party leaders to focus on the issues while campaigning for the fast approaching election.

Bhattacharya and his colleagues thoroughly discussed about nine points regarding recent poll result in five States and AAP’s rising in Delhi, Muzaffarnagar communal riot and BJP’s stand, security for women, protest by LGBT community against Supreme Court’s verdict, Modi’s illegal surveillance on a woman and demand for a separate bill for Telengana.  

In the nine-point decision, the Central Committee condemned Naveen-led BJD Government’s witch-hunt of CPI (ML) Liberation activists in Rayagada due to which six activists of the party have been arrested on false grounds of being ‘Maoists’. The party demanded immediate release of the arrested comrades and an end to the State Government’s policies of corporate loot of tribals’ land, water and forests.