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The CPI-M suffered some embarrassment while observing the 50th anniversary of the killing of two party activists here on Saturday. The family members of the two martyrs skipped the event, and the mementos meant to be handed over to the families had to be taken back to the party office. State CPI-M secretary, Dr Suryakanta Mishra was the key speaker at the programme to commemorate the 50th death anniversary of Ashis Dasgupta and Sheikh Jabbar, party members killed during the August movement in Durgapur Steel city in 1966.
The two CPI-M cadres were killed during a 35- day movement by the party based on the slogan automation equals anti nation in Durgapur. The CISF had resorted to a lathi charge on the picketers at the Durgapur Steel Plant on 5 August 1966 in which Jabbar suffered multiple injuries and succumbed before being shifted to the hospital. Ashis allegedly was shot dead by the police the next day in the Steel Township area.
The CPI-M, after assuming power in the state, had named its zonal party office there AshisJabbar Bhawan and a market was named after Ashis where he was killed. A labourer rehabilitation plot was named after Jabbar, besides a park named Jabbar Bagh. On Saturday, the party organised a programme to commemorate the killings of the martyrs at Lal Maidan in the town. The partys district committee member Rathin Roy was helpless when he didnt get any response from the audience after he invited the family members of Ashis and Jabbar to receive the mementos.
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A former district committee member, Susanta Banerjee who has now migrated to Hooghly. said: Theres hardly any one of Ashiss family is staying here and I have no idea why Jabbars family members didnt turn up. Jabbars brother, Sheikh Sukur, incidentally has joined the Trinamul Congress.
He said on Saturday: Why should we go to their programme? They have forgotten Ashis and Jabbars sacrifices and while in power they did not want to meet the family members of their martyrs.
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