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Left outfits to scale down protests

By Malabika Bhattacharya

KOLKATA OCT. 14. West Bengal's ruling Leftists today decided to scale down protests in the backdrop of the Kolkata High Court staying Justice Amitava Lala's order restricting rallies in the city on weekdays.

However, the Front partners who met during the day said they would not stop them altogether as the rallies helped assert the democratic right to protest. "The stay order is welcome. But we will continue with our protests till the final judgment," Biman Bose, Front chairman and CPI(M) politburo member, who presided over the meeting, said.

In view of the decision, the CPI(M) called off today's march in the city by the Centre for Indian Trade Unions and the other left unions, restricting it to a convention at Rani Rashmoni Avenue in central Kolkata, one of the three rallying points marked by the State Government in the recent times. The women's outfits, too, would confine themselves to holding a meeting at the same venue tomorrow.

Mr. Bose, who had spearheaded the demand that Mr. Justice Lala quit Bengal, said the leftists would not change their position.

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