மம்தா பானர்ஜி பாஜக கூட்டணியிலிருந்து வெளியேறியது மட்டுமின்றி, அலிகார் முஸ்லீம் பல்கலைக்கழகத்தில் பேசியதும், மேலும் ஏராளமான முஸ்லீம்களை கட்சியில் இணைப்பதும் மேற்குவங்காளத்தை ஆளும் சிபிஎம் கட்சிக்கு புளி கரைக்க துவங்கியிருக்கிறது.
இதனால், அதுவும் போட்டி போட்டுக்கொண்டு சிறுபான்மையினர் நலத்துறைக்கு 200கோடி மானியம் ஒதுக்கியிருக்கிறது. சிறுபான்மையினர் வெளியேறிவிடாமல் இருக்க முழு மூச்சாக வேலை செய்ய பல கம்யூனிஸ்டு முஸ்லீம்களை நியமித்துள்ளது.
முஸ்லீம் தலைவர்கள் மட்டுமே நலம் அடையாமல், சாதாரண முஸ்லீம்கள் நலமடைந்தால் சரிதான்.
CPI(M) tries to woo minorities
Ajoy K Das
Tuesday, September 11, 2007 05:12 IST
KOLKATA: Next year’s panchayat elections, the prospects of snap Lok Sabha (LS) polls and Trinamul Congress leader Mamata Banerjee’s shifting loyalties have added fuel to West Bengal’s competitive politics, prodding the state’s left government to woo minorities in a big way.
Reacting sharply to Mamata’s distancing herself from the BJP and addressing a congregation of the Aligarh Muslim University, the government has been quick to draw a plan to quadruple budgetary fund allocation next year for minority development organisations.
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At the national level, the CPI(M) has assigned to its LS member Mohammed Salim the task of interacting with minority representatives to educate them on the Sachar Committee report and UPA’s alleged failure in implementing its recommendations.
However, the committee had scathing comments on the condition of minorities in the state. So, the party’s state unit has goaded the government to raise the budgetary allocation for minorities to Rs 200 crore from the Rs 51 crore that the Minority Development Corporation gets every year.
This largesse to minorities is aimed at checking their perceived desertion from the ranks of the CPI(M) in the wake of rising resistance to land acquisition for industry across the state. In districts like East Midnapore, such resistance is being spearheaded by minority organisations which Mamata has been supporting with the hope of reaping political benefits in the next elections.
The Congress meanwhile, is trying to get Mamata on its side so that it has the TMC’s support in case of mid-term polls if the Left pulls out of the UPA.
The Minority Development Corporation has circulated a note saying that minorities account for 27 per cent of the state’s population and that this proportion entitled the minority affairs department to an allocation of Rs 260 crore..
Ahead of the state budget in February-March and the panchayat polls two months later, the West Bengal government will disburse Rs 9 crore of loans to minorities. Of this, Rs 3 crore will go to vocational training, Rs 1.5 crore as old age pension and Rs 4 crore for development of madrasas in Kolkata.
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