AHEAD OF an all-India convention of the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) that begins in Salt Lake on Wednesday, the youth organisations of the CPIM have been attempting to hook up with totally different nodes of Bengal that seize the essence of the state – together with soccer, mangrove tree plantation and holding cycle rallies – from among the minority pocket which are sad with the state authorities.
After dealing with a rout within the 2021 Assembly election final yr, the CPIM has been attempting to stage a comeback in West Bengal politics by means of their younger faces, who’re primarily from its college students wing, Students Federation of India (SFI) and the DYFI.
During Left rule within the state from 1977 to 2011, the DYFI regularly grew to become CPIM’s largest mass organisation and mainly was the spine of grassroots-level join. But after electoral defeat in 2011, the DYFI regularly weakened.
In 2011, when the Left Front authorities was defeated by Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC), the DYFI’s membership depend stood at 95 lakh. But in 2012, it decreased to 50 lakh. In the following seven years, this quantity once more dropped to 26 lakh. And regardless of makes an attempt since 2019 to develop the organisation, in 2021, the DYFI had simply 21 lakh members.
The eleventh All India Conference of the DYFI will probably be held from May 12-15 at Salt Lake’s EZCC campus, often known as ‘Diego Maradona city,’ as a tribute to the late Argentina footballer who is way admired by soccer fanatics in Bengal. The state unit of the DYFI additionally organised a combined gender soccer match within the run-up to the convention. Both female and male gamers performed on each groups and the referees belonged to the transgender neighborhood.
Nearly 20,000 DYFI flags have come up throughout Salt Lake metropolis and a number of other cutouts of Maradona will be seen on the best way to the convention venue.
A marathon from Howrah Kadamtala to Dinesh Majumdar Bhawan the state workplace of DYFI in Kolkata, was additionally organised, with 45 members, together with two girls. Inaugurating the marathon, state DYFI president Minakshi Mukherjee stated, “The event is meant to forge harmony, as unity in India’s current political atmosphere stands threatened and so does the Constitution.”
A two-day carnival was organised in Bijoygarh that started with a blood donation camp on May 7. A lot of movie screenings was additionally a part of the carnival, which was inaugurated by actor Sabyasachi Chakraborty within the presence of filmmaker Tarun Majumdar. A music pageant was additionally organised.
To spotlight the message of gender equality, the DYFI additionally organised tree plantation drives. The state youth leaders of CPIM went to Sundarban areas to plant mangrove bushes.
The DYFI can even organise a cycle rally from pupil chief Anis Khan’s home.
Anis, a pupil chief of Aliah University, was discovered lifeless close to his residence in Amta within the early hours of February 19. His household has alleged that he was murdered. However, the DYFI and CPIM management didn’t need to confer with minority politics in these two rallies. CPIM chief and former DYFI chief, Shatarup Ghosh stated, “We went to the home of the Nadia gangrape sufferer and organized for her last farewell. There isn’t any query of faith politics. We are standing beside the helpless individuals of West Bengal.
CPIM state secretary Minakshi Mukherjee stated, “We are not doing politics on religious lines. We are fighting against that. We are fighting against those who are trying to weaken the constitution.”