[L-I] Fwd: Fw: [aiaifdelhi] Bengal plays cat-and-mouse game with ruling on strikes

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> Bengal plays cat-and-mouse game with ruling on
> strikes 
> Krittivas Mukherjee, Hindustan Times (IANS)
> Kolkata, October 11 
> 
> Political parties and the administration in West
> Bengal seem to be
> playing a cat-and-mouse game with a court ruling on
> strikes.
> 
> On Friday, two political parties defied the Calcutta
> High Court ban on
> holding street protests on weekdays, but police
> remained silent
> spectators to the violation, citing frivolous
> excuses.
> 
> The court had ruled on September 29 that no public
> rallies or marches
> should be held between 8 am and 8 pm on weekdays and
> police should
> collect money from public protest organisers to pay
> claims of
> inconvenience.
> 
> The verdict went down well with the people but
> angered political
> parties that seem determined to violate the ban
> order passed by
> Justice Amitava Lala.
> 
> Two leftist parties -- the Socialist Unity Centre of
> India (SUCI) and
> the Communist Party of India-Marxist
> Leninist-Liberation (CPI-ML) --
> brought out processions on Friday afternoon.
> 
> When asked why he didn't take action, Deputy
> Commissioner of Police
> Kuldiep Singh told reporters there were no rallies
> at all though the
> protestors had walked through some of the main
> thoroughfares in long
> files.
> 
> Police, however, broke up the SUCI protest when the
> demonstrators, who
> had walked silently without banners, tried to block
> traffic. But the
> 15 SUCI activists arrested were not booked for
> violating Justice
> Lala's order.
> 
> Singh also said he couldn't implement the court
> order on street
> protests because he didn't have a copy of the order.
> 
> "If it is proved that police deliberately suppressed
> facts from the
> court, the situation can be interpreted as heading
> towards a breakdown
> of the constitutional machinery," legal luminary
> Gitanath Ganguly has
> opined.
> 
> The helplessness of courts was evident in August
> when a Calcutta High
> Court judge observed it was unable to pass an order
> restraining
> strikes called by political parties because such a
> directive could not
> be implemented.
> 
> 
> 
> Oh! What a tangled web...
> 
> The Statesman, Oct 11
> 
> KOLKATA, Oct. 10. — The Marxists got mauled today,
> figuratively
> speaking, by their not-so-fraternal friends on Left,
> the Socialist
> Unity Centre of India and the CPI-ML (Liberation)
> for their stand on
> the High Court ban on processions and rallies during
> specified hours
> on weekdays. 
> A couple of days after the “sober element” in
> the CPI-M attempted
> to balance the party’s opposition to the ruling
> and the over-the-top
> pronouncements and reactions of its apparatchiks,
> the SUCI pounced on
> the Marxists for their “double standards” in
> letting the
> government go ahead with its plan to earmark three
> city venues for
> organising rallies and to prevent “unnecessary”
> road and rail
> blockades, while at the same time “making a lot of
> noise” about
> the court ruling. “The CPI-M is out to placate
> private capital...
> (who) want the voice of protest against their loot
> and exploitation of
> the workforce to be throttled,” Mr Probhash Ghosh,
> SUCI state
> secretary, told a convention called to protest
> against the court
> ruling. 
> On the other hand, the CPI-ML (Liberation) state
> secretary, Mr Kartick
> Pal, told a rally organised to flout the ban and
> that the CPI-M’s
> “pseudo-Left” stance over the past 25 years had
> created a
> situation where such ban-rally rulings “could be
> slapped on the
> people so easily”! — SNS
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