Even the instances of such moves from the distant past can inspire future play of moves. In the same way, all true popular/mass movements enjoy a degree of 'relative autonomy' based on the spontaneous participation of the people (cutting across various classes and other social groups). Elias, Hiren Mukherjee has severely criticized the state government and the food policy of the central government on several occasions.
Botalinus' [a soil bacterium].”11 The next day (i.e. 7 February) the Editorial Board of the same newspaper expressed its concern about the way the 'gap' was widening between the government and the people in the state, not only. in the case of food but also in other areas. The stone pelting started near Curzon Park and then spread rapidly to other parts of the city. There was an attempt," said the press note, "to rob a small store and break the windows of another.
As usual, the number of the wounded and the killed, the official and the opposition/private estimates also varied. After the incidents of the 31st, many school and college students observed a strike protesting the police action on that day. Violence and utter chaos gradually engulfed the length and breadth of the city as night fell.
The first kind was an angry reaction against the police's actions/government's handling of the situation.
February
The train guard saved the Home Guard by stopping the train after hearing his cries for help. Thus, 'people' from all sides and places were getting impatient with the state government's food policy and PDS. Police opened fire on Bashirhat, injuring 6 agitators in a police-crowd clash in mid-February.
Towns and villages of southern parts of the state like Bashirhat, Swarupnagar, Habra, Baduria Krishnanagar, Barrackpore, Ranaghat, Chakdah, Hindmotor, Uttarpara Assansol, Dhubulia, Plassey, Beldanga, Berhampur and many other places saw non-stop demonstration processions, roads/ railways, destruction of railway electrical points, closure of schools and clashes between agitators and police, during the month-long movement, from February 16 to March 14. 36. However, by this time, rising prices and food crisis issues had fueled the imagination of the entire country.37. In the 1966 food movement, the police opened fire in Basirhat killing Nurul Islam, while in Baduria Ali Hafiz and Kalu Mondal were killed.
In the first four months of 1966 – in the name of stopping the rioting over the release of political detainees and the food movement – the police killed more than 50 rioters. Apart from this, raids and searches in the homes of our supporters were the order of the day. The outraged people demanded that the rice be sold immediately, but the police admitted their inability.
On the same day, Girish Chandra Mahato and Kandu Majhi, two MLAs of the Lok Sebak Sangha (Gandhi's party influential in Purulia) were arrested in Purulia when they arrived in Purulia from Calcutta on the morning of the 19th.40. The problems were highlighted both in the Assembly Hall and outside it, in the districts. The spirit of street fighting often seemed to influence even the members of the assembly—on.
The report says: “Broken specs, a bloody nose, a swollen forehead and a sprained hand – these were the results of a 10-minute free-for-all in the West Bengal Assembly chamber on Tuesday, seconds after Speaker pushed the House. for an hour and a half." It started when the opposition started protesting the police shootings and arrests of the opposition. The fire started when the Speaker allowed Sankar Das Banerjee of the Congress to move a privilege motion, after Banerjee sought permission in advance. This has angered the opposition, who rushed to the speaker of the parliament, demanding the removal of the permit.
The city otherwise had a normal appearance, although in the afternoon attendance at the offices decreased somewhat, as the drivers went home earlier that day. A large number of wedding guests traveled to the city on Wednesday afternoon, today there were problems with communication. Late in the evening there was an unsuccessful bid to set fire to the wooden bridge at Barrackpore station.
He claimed that the left communists were involved in the violent actions in Asansol, Konnagar, Rishra and Hind Motor. However, West Bengal Congressmen, who supported Sen, expressed their full confidence in the Prime Minister.50 The meeting took place at the residence of Atulya Ghosh, leader of the State Congress. Nanda, Union Home Minister, and Subramaniam, Food Minister, also attended the meeting by invitation and participated in the discussion highlighting the correspondence between the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition, Mr.
The Congress MPs hoped that the resumption of talks between the Chief Minister and the Left leaders would consolidate peace in the country. On the issues of kerosene and increase in ration in West Bengal, Mr. Meanwhile, the ULF called for a General Strike/Hartal on April 6, 1966.
On the 26th, the CPI Left held a meeting at Klokata Maidan, which was described as a "Red Maidan Rally"54 by the press. At that meeting, Jyoti Basu, the leader of the opposition in the state assembly, told the crowd that they had not launched an armed revolution but only a movement so that people could live. But the current investigation launched by the Prime Minister was one-sided because it would only estimate the number of displaced and unemployed people who had participated in the riots.
All most notables of the Bengali stage and screen participated in the procession. Meanwhile, meetings and demonstrations were held across the state to mark the March 29 protest day. 1 Sibaji Pratim Basu, "The Chronicle of a Forgotten Movement: 1959 Food Movement Revisited" Policies and Practices, no.
From Insurrection to Popular Movement: Bihar Movement, its Possibilities and Limitations
The next day they went to the prime minister, but he refused to answer the students' question. Even most of the slogans used in contemporary struggle originated during the Bihar movement. In fact, these strata of classes in the villages became the social base for the revolutionaries of the Naxalite movement.
But it is true that Satyanaran Sinha's group of the CPI (ML) participated in the agitation without formally joining the Bihar movement. We might conclude that, regardless of the uncertain nature of their structure, "people" are a single category. The point about the singularity of "people" and the multiplicity of "masses" is very clear in Lenin's formulation.
This was one of the few incidents where the students had a successful alliance with the farmers. He gave a speech on this day in which he pointed out the change in direction of the movement. Ultimately, he identified students as a political group that could act as a vanguard of the movement.
It was admitted even by the most ardent supporters that the movement was not so effective in South Bihar. They went to the other extreme by creating the "masses" that concentrated only on peasants at the expense of everything else. The last bit is curious and is important to understand the composition of the sentence.
Rickshawallas, hawkers, contract workers and other wage earners wholeheartedly supported the movement. This was also one of the reasons why the demand for the dissolution of the assembly and parliament came to the fore. In this sense, JP's notion of "the people" was a synthesis between the groups (classes cannot achieve synthesis because their inherent relationship is struggle).
The Bihar movement was a people's movement that emerged at a conjuncture of crisis, discontent and a new formation of "the people". The "passive revolution" phase ensured that instead of a "mass" revolt, there was a complex game of JP tactics. The inherently unstable nature of "the people" meant that spontaneous action was favored over organization and strategy.
