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Left front to protest Israel’s attack on Gaza

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KOLKATA:The ruling Left Front in West Bengal will organise protest marches across the State on January 10 condemning Israeli attacks on Gaza.

Biman Bose, Left Front Committee chairman, said here on Tuesday that processions would be taken out in the city and the districts and meetings held condemning the “brutal attacks on the Palestinian people.”

He deplored the silence maintained by the United Nations as well as the Indian government on the matter and called upon the latter to immediately exert diplomatic pressure on the Israeli government to put a stop to the attacks on Gaza.

Asked for his comments on a rally in the city organised by the Trinamool Congress in protest against the Israeli attacks on Gaza that was addressed by its chief Mamata Banerjee, he wondered what it was worth, as the party was not known for taking any ideological stand in international affairs.

Condemning Israel’s attacks on the Gaza strip, Ms. Banerjee demanded that the Centre send relief and representatives to Gaza and also urge to the United Nations to stop the ongoing violence.

She added that India should sever diplomatic ties with Israel if the situation so required.

On the by-election to the Nandigram Assembly constituency held on Monday Mr. Bose said that although it was being claimed that the polls were peaceful they were held in a situation of repressed terror.

The apparent peace in the area on the day of the polls should not suggest that the elections were free and fair, he said.

Corrections and Clarifications

In a report "Left front to protest Israel's attack on Kashmir" (January 7, 2009), some comments made by Ms. Mamata Banerjee were tagged on to those made by Mr. Biman Bose, Left front committee chairman, without proper attribution. The comments by Ms Banerjee were given as a separate story by a staff reporter. This was incorporated into the news item in question by the editorial desk.

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