The Communist Party Of India(Marxist) along with its other left wing tributaries and student unions called for this ‘Peoples Brigade’. Unlike previous years this time the left party held the hands of Indian National Congress(INC) and Indian Secular Front(ISF). The alliance with the newly emerging power of ISF led by Abbas Siddiqui,a prominent muslim face from the Furfura Sharif shrine,is quite notable and somewhat controversial for this brigade. Though it attracted a mass no of minority Muslims of Bengal towards the Brigade Parade Ground, the opposition didn’t miss the chance to target the CPI(M) for its deviation from ‘left ideology’. The brigade platform questioned both the state and central government of their corruption, bribery, abduction, nepotism and filthy communal politics and spoke for basic human rights,education rights,youth employment. Leaders of the allied power sent a strong message and proclaimed to make the acting government fall by erasing their existence null in a void. Apart from the leaders of respective political groups,eminent personalities from the tinsel town of Tollywood, directors, theatre artists were spotted on the gathering as they’re said to be left ideologists.The brigade really turned into a mega show for CPI(M) as hundreds and thousands of peoples from the districs and outskirts made processions and gathered around that largest empty space centred around Kolkata.
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