The “Pagri Sambhal” Conference on 27th January,
to Strip Bare the Deceitful Game of Elections.
Clarion Call to March on to the Path of Intense, United Struggles
for People’s Development and their Sway.
Amidst the intensified political atmosphere in the Punjab state assembly elections, a “Pagri Sambhal Campaign Committee Punjab” has been organized by different prominent and struggling personalities. The committee will hold a State level “Pagri Sambhal Conference” on January 27th at Grain Market Barnala to strip bare the deceitful game of elections and to proclaim the actual pro-people path of struggle. This has been announced by Lachman Singh Sewewala, convener of the committee, during the press conference organized in Tarksheel Bhavan Barnala. The other members of the committee are as following – Jhanda Singh Jethuke, Harmesh Malri, Harjinder Singh, Pavel Kussa, Karora Singh, Amolak Singh, Gurdial Singh Bhangal, Narinder Kumar Jeet, Smt. Pushap Lata, Darshan Singh Koohli, Malagar Singh Khamano, Yashpal and Joginder Azad etc.
While addressing the press conference, committee members declared that all the opportunist political parties, along with the ruling Akali-BJP combine, Congress and so called third alternative of Manpreet-Left brand Front, are in agreement with those anti-national policies which are responsible for the crises of farm-laborers, farmers, industrial and electricity workers, employees, un-employed, youth, and women in Punjab as well as in country. In Punjab too, people have lived through and experienced the rule of different political parties but to no avail. The toiling people, therefore, in order to get rid of their crises, should organize and march forward on the path of intense, united struggles. They further said that though the government will be changed as a result of the present elections, but, they warn, no one should hope that the policies, serving the interest of feudal lords and national-multinational capitalists; and exploiting and oppressing the people, will ever change through elections. Neither the repressive black laws, framed only to impose these policies on peoples, will be changed; nor the police, the jails and the bureaucrats, who punish people for demanding their rights, are going to change. Through elections, these parties only resolve the issue of political power and the division of the plunder among themselves.
As a result of the struggles by Chacha Ajit Singh and many other patriots and Gadarites, and Pagri Sambhal and other movements organized by them, the British rulers were forced to leave the country. After them, Indian rulers, for the purpose of mollifying the seething resentment among the peoples of India, provided them with meager concessions and indented democratic rights. At present, following the economic policies brought under the banner of so called development, even these concessions and rights are being seized enormously. Various government departments are being privatized, wage system is being packed up, and instead of land-reforms lands are being forcibly acquired. People are being deprived of their water resources, forests, livelihoods, health, education, employment, transportation, electricity etc. and the blatant oppression, that is used to suppress the namesake democratic rights, is being legalized. So peoples’ interests are under an all out attack. Moreover, legal hindrances are being removed to open up the government treasury for corporate loot and to make it a free game for the corporate sector to plunder the people.
In this situation, therefore, it is a need of the time that the masses of the people, for their actual development, prosperity, collective sway and self-respect, should choose to march on to the path of united, widespread and intense struggles rather than hoping anything out of elections. They also declared that in order to prepare for the conference and to make people aware, a campaign of meetings, gatherings, torch-marches, and big ‘kafila’ marches will be organized throughout the state. An appeal has been made to all the struggling, pro-people, literary, cultural, rationalists (Tarksheel), democratic and justice-loving sections of the people to participate, and to be helpful in spreading the campaign to each and every household. A wall poster has also been released on the occasion. The poster is published in thousands.
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