Volume 5, No. 9, September 2004

 

People’s March in Dhanbad

Massive Rally Against State Repression

Jai

 

On 12th July each and every corner of coal zone headquarters, Dhanbad, was rocked with the revolutionary slogans of Jangarjana Rally. Thousand of people came from throughout of the country have participated in Janagarjana Rally, which was jointly organized by AIPRF, SFPR and FPR. This historic rally was organized to demand repeal of POTA, scrap the cases booked under POTA, lift the ban imposed on PW and MCCI, to acquit the five peasants who have been sentenced to death in Bihar.

The rally commenced from Shahid Bhagat Singh Ground. About ten thousand people come from each part of the country have taken part in the rally with red banners, red flags and red strips in their hands. These include children, women, young and old persons. In the forefront of rally children were dancing with their traditional arms in their hands on the rhythm of drum beats. While other people in rally were raising slogans "stop the brokering of Imperialism in the name of Reformism", "smash the fascism", "Repeal the POTA", "lift the ban imposed on PW and MCCI", "unite all the democratic forces against oppression and exploitation", etc. Cultural artists were presenting pseudo war against exploiters and rulers. There was one forth of women in the rally. The rally was so big that it made whole of the city to stand still. It was taking more than one hour to cross any point. But having such a big rally, it was a well disciplined rally. Everything was well organized. No hotchpotch was there. Common citizens were surprised to see such a big militant rally of peasants and labours after a long gap.

At 4 O’clock the rally returned to Shahid Bhagat Singh Ground. First the cultural organisations performed cultural programs, and then the meeting was started. Addressing the meeting as main speaker President of APDR, Punjab, Sh. Dhir Singh Tark, said that the ruling class of the country is the real terrorist, which is racking havoc on the workers through the notorious POTA. This is using it for suppressing the people’s movements. It has to be repeal immediately. Naxalites are the genuine patriot, he said. The meeting were also addressed by Dr. Darshan Pal of AIPRF, Com. Rajkishor of SFPR, Com. Janki Rami Reddy of FPR, Marxist intellectural Asim Chatterjee, Baldev Jha, R. C. Prasad and Sukhwinder Kaur of Aurat Mukti Manch.

 

 

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