Patna, July 7:
Under the auspices of SUCI (Communist) Patna District
Committee a discussion was organized at Indian Medical Association Hall here on
Sunday. The topic of discussion was: Present Economic-Social-Political Crisis
and the Role of Progressive Forces. Amitabh Chatterjee, Member, Editorial
Board, Ganadabi (a Bengali Weekly) and Member, SUCI (Communist), West Bengal
State Committee said as main speaker that the whole world was crying for
change. The whole economic system was reeling under acute recession. The capitalist
economic-social system had reached in its decadent phase resulting
unprecedented crisis of human values, ethics and morality.
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| Amitabh Chatterjee speaking |
“Only a handful of people are getting rich while most are
becoming ruined. The vast masses of the country have been deceiving in the name
of development since independence. Lacks of farmers have been forced to commit
suicide. Innumerable factories are closed resulting retrenchment of lacks of
workers and employees. Common people are suffering from the unbearable pain of price hike,” he said
dealing the economic condition of the country. Dealing the present political
crisis, Mr. Chatterjee said, “All the parliamentary parties like Congress, BJP,
JD (U), RJD are sub serving the interest of capitalist class. Once the students
and youths considered the political leaders as their role model, they dreamt to
be like them, but now no one is interested to follow their characters. Almost
all the leaders of national and state parties are corrupt from top to bottom.
They are engaged in different scams and unscrupulous activities.”
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| Prof. Devendra Prasad speaking |
Speaking on Bihar, he said, “In the name of good governance
and social justice the Nitish Government is following the same anti people
policies of privatization, commercialization and PPP as the Congress led UPA
Government is following at Centre and the erstwhile RJD Government followed in
the state. The atrocities on women and crime are on increase. The Government is
not only making its frantic efforts to privatize the field of education,
health, public transport and Municipal Corporations but suppressing the mass
movements of different section of people erupting everywhere in the state. ”
Showing deep concern over the increasing incidents of rape,
murder, abduction and suicide he said that the capitalist social system based
on earning maximum profit was breeding all these. The indifferent attitudes of
students and youths towards society, degradation in social and human values,
lack of sense of social responsibility and not last but least the growing
disrespect to elders are all derived from the present exploitative system.
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| A section of gathering |
Discussing on the role of progressive forces in such a
condition he said that we should all make our best efforts to build up mass
movements on different democratic legitimate demands of people. In course of
building up mass movements on the burning issues of people’s lives broader unity
may be forged comprising different left, democratic and progressive forces. He suggested
forming public committees at every level of the movement, which would lead the
movement to its final victory. At last he urged the people assembled to be a
part of the ongoing struggle for replacing this capitalist society, the root of
all evils manifesting here and there by a class less socialist society.
Prof. Devendra Prasad, retd. Professor of Patna University
presided over the discussion. Prof.
Nawal Kishore Chaudhary, Renowned Economist; Bal Govind Singh, R N Jha and Sadhana Mishra, Secretary, SUCI (Communist) Patna District Committee took part
in discussion. Arun Kumar Singh, Senior Member, SUCI (Communist) Bihar
State Committee was also present on dais. Many intellectuals were present in
the programme.
