Attempt to Assassinate Jyoti Basu
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Jyoti Basu. Pic courtesy Getty Images NK SINGH
The
details of March 31 attempt on the life of Mr Jyoti Basu (at Patna railway
station) are well known. At the time of writing, police sources are claiming to
be hot on the trails of the assailant.
The
den of a group of “extremists” has been raided at Jamsehedpur. The Anand Marga,
a socio-religious organisation which is bitterly hostile to the CPM, is also a
suspect.
The
CPI used the occasion to attack the RSS, the Jana Sangh, the Anand Marg and, of
course, the CIA. The parties of right reaction emphasised the point that violence bred violence and that Basu was not only the target of violence but
also an instigator of violence.
The
meeting of the Bihar State CPM and Kisan Sabha which Basu has come to address
was attended by about 15,000 people.
Their
13-point demands include: land reforms, abolition of contract system of labour
in coalfields and release of CPM’s MLA A. K. Roy and action against those
indicted by the Aiyer and Mudholkar Commissions.
Thanks
to the efforts of the kisan leader Ganesh Shankar ‘Vidyarthi’ and labour leader
A. K. Roy, the CPM has still some mass base in certain areas.
In
the last mid-term poll, the CPM got three members elected on its ticket in a
House of 318. One of them defected. So now the party is being represented by
two members only – one of whom is in jail.
Excerpts
from Frontier 11 April 1970
Editor’s
note:
Later, Anand Marg's conspiracy was identified behind the assassination attempt.
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