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The Communist Party of India (Marxist) connected Saturday (November 29, 2025) began its Bangla Bachao Yatra (Save Bengal March) from Tufanganj successful West Bengal’s Cooch Behar district. The yatra, which comes months earlier the Assembly polls successful the State, is an effort by the CPI(M) to scope retired to the electorate and rise issues concerning the moving classes.
The 1100 km yatra volition traverse from the northbound to the southbound of the State during which respective rallies and nationalist meetings volition beryllium held.
“We started this rally from Tufanjang to item the atrocities and oppression connected our workers here. This is besides to beryllium that contempt specified oppression our workers person travel retired successful ample numbers,” CPI(M) State Secretary Mohammad Salim told media persons.
The CPI(M) person accused Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of enabling the introduction of RSS–BJP (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh – Bharatiya Janata Party) successful the state. “Remember, Mamata (Banerjee) was erstwhile described arsenic ‘Maa Durga’ by the RSS erstwhile she was successful the opposition,” helium said.
Referring to erstwhile Chief Minister of the State and Marxist icon Jyoti Basu, Mr. Salim said that helium had warned astir Ms. Banerjee’s relation successful “paving the mode for communal forces” erstwhile the Left was successful power. He said that West Bengal has witnessed deterioration of instrumentality and bid during the Trinamool Congress authorities and slipped to the level of “Uttar Pradesh and Bihar”. Mr. Salim said that the CPI(M) enactment has acceptable up the highest fig of assistance camps successful the State for SIR.
The CPI(M) person called for gathering a “new, self-reliant Bengal wherever youths bash not person to migrate for jobs, industries put again and schoolhouse jobs are not sold” and urged radical from each walks of beingness to articulation the yatra. The Bangla Bachao Yatra volition reason connected December 17.
The authorities wide march by the Left enactment comes astatine a clip erstwhile the authorities successful the State is connected the boil implicit ongoing SIR ( Special Intensive Revision). The CPI(M) had entered into electoral confederation with the Congress since 2016, but the confederation has not resulted successful overmuch electoral success. Recently, a fewer Left parties including those who are constituents of the CPI(M) led Left Front person said that they bash not privation to state with Congress successful the upcoming Assembly polls successful the State.
