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It was not the party’s view: Biman Bose

Staff Reporter

KOLKATA: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) does not think that the right to strike can be snatched away from the working class, Biman Bose, Secretary of the party’s West Bengal State Committee, said here on Wednesday.

He was referring to Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s remark on Tuesday that he “does not support bandhs.”

The Chief Minister’s view is not shared by the party, Mr. Bose said.

When asked by journalists whether disciplinary action would be taken against the Chief Minister for speaking out against the party’s view, Mr. Bose said the matter would be taken up within the party later. “Workers resort to strikes only when their just claims are denied by their employers. They do not go in for a strike out of happiness,” he said.

Mr. Bose said the right to strike existed even in the “so-called” developed countries such as France and the United States. “We cannot mortgage this right in a developing country like ours.”

“He is wrong”

Thiruvananthapuram Special Correspondent writes:

Kerala Chief Minister V. S. Achuthanandan too disagreed with Mr. Bhattacharjee’s view on gheraos and bandhs.

“I don’t think he expressed such an opinion. He is wrong, if he has said so,” Mr. Achuthanandan told journalists here on Wednesday during a Cabinet briefing.

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