Kolkata woke up to the news that Maoist posters had appeared late in the night on the walls of the famous Coffee House on College Street and the PresidenCy College.
The posters said, ‘Keep the war alive, boycott the votes.’
Four districts of West Bengal are voting today in the second of the five-phase assembly elections.
Coffee House was once famous as the seat of Bengali intellectualism, and Presidency College saw many of its students joining the Naxalbari Movement in the early 1970s.
The police have torn down the posters, the reports said.
On Friday, there were unconfirmed reports of Maoist posters appearing in West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharya’s Jadavpur assembly constituency’s Ajaynagar area. The East Jadavpur police station officials said they had no such reports.
Maoist posters appear in Kolkata
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– April 22, 2006
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It’s of no surprise that such posters were displayed for public viewing
because of its proximity to Presidency college.The voting system has gone
to complete mess and elections in West Bengal are the biggest example of
that.Police will only add oil to the fire by tearing such posters as news will
spread more with more oppression by the police.But I beleive its high time
we should start calling maoists as nationalists.