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CPM promotes caste based discrimination, Says Resigned Marxist Veteran

CPM promotes caste based discrimination, Says Resigned Marxist Veteran

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Publication: HaindavaKeralam.com
Date: November 1, 2008
URL: http://www.haindavakeralam.com/HKPage.aspx?PageID=7424&SKIN=C

Veteran Communist party leader from Tripura resigned from the party accusing the party leadership of promoting caste based discrimination, Lack of inner party democracy and autocracy.

Jiten Sarkar along with a group of party workers, joined the newly-formed Dalit Samajtantrik Dal, recently floated by another former MLA and leader of CPI(M) Nakul Das. Sarkar alleged that scheduled caste people were dominated by members of other castes within the party and many able leaders were ditched only because they belonged to the scheduled caste.

Sarkar has been elected from Teliamura constituency for consecutive five terms since 1978 and was the speaker of the Assembly for two terms from 1994.


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