[Reader-list] Irfan Habib's appeal to vote for the Left

[Shuddhabrata Sengupta]

Dear Prakash,

Please refrain from using this list for forwarding election related  
propaganda. If Atal Behari Vajpayee's exhortation to vote for Advani  
and the BJP (as forwarded by Pawan Durani) is unacceptable here, so  
is Irfan Habib's appeal to vote for other political parties.

best

Shuddha

On 18-Apr-09, at 1:31 PM, prakash ray wrote:

> Irfan Habib (Professor Emeritus, Aligarh Muslim University) has  
> issued an
> appeal to vote for the Left. Here is the text -
>
> “As India goes to polls to elect the country’s Parliament it is  
> crucial for
> us to realize that the interests of all sections of our people, the  
> poor,
> the workers, peasants, and the middle classes, will be served best by
> electing to Parliament the largest possible number of candidates of  
> the
> CPI(M) and other Left parties. It was because of the efforts of the  
> Left
> Parties that the ruling Congress was unable to implement many of its
> projected measures designed to favour big business at the cost of the
> people. The Left Parties have uncompromisingly fought against the  
> Congress
> government’s increasing subservience to US imperialism and growing  
> closeness
> to Israel. They have also unflinchingly stood up for secularism,  
> women’s
> rights, affirmative action for minorities and protection of dalits’
> interests. By voting firmly for the Left Front candidates, people will
> surely help to change the destiny of the whole country.”
>
> - Irfan Habib (Professor Emeritus, Aligarh Muslim University)
> (http://www.vote.cpim.org/node/1404)
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Shuddhabrata Sengupta
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