29 JUNE 2019
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Students of Golden Sand Art Institute of Sudarshan Pattnaik at Puri make a sand sculpture of former Chief Minister West Bengal Jyoti Basu
Kolkata,
June 28: A CPI-M delegation on Friday met West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata
Banerjee to resolve the impasse over the left party not getting possession of a
plot of land purchased by it for setting up a research centre in the name of
late party patriarch Jyoti Basu.
Member of
the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) state secretariat Rabin Deb, who
was part of the delegation, said his party had been allotted a five-acre plot
of land by the erstwhile Left Front government in January, 2011 to build the
Jyoti Basu Centre for Social Studies and Research in the Rajarhat-Newtown area.
"Accordingly,
we paid the full amount for the land in two instalments to the West Bengal
Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation (HIDCO) by the first half of
May, 2011. However, after the present (Trinamool Congress) government came to
power, we were not given possession of the land," said Deb.
The CPI-M
had originally planned to launch the centre on Basu''s centenary in 2014, and
its leaders called on Banerjee and Municipal Affairs and Urban Development
Minister Firhad Hakim to pursue the matter.
"But
the Chief Minister had told us that the minister would take care of the matter.
But the government later told us that it was prepared to allot a separate land
for the centre.
"We
inspected this plot, but found that it was on a marsh land. Then we told the
government that since we had already paid the full amount for a specific plot
of land on the main road, we would go for that plot only," said Deb.
On
Friday, when the CPI-M leaders met her, Banerjee told them there was some
dispute over the plot of land allotted to the party earlier.
"We
have told the Chief Minister that we can go for a joint inspection of the plot
with the minister and HIDCO officials to see if there was any dispute. But to
the best of our knowledge, there is no dispute," said Deb.
Jyoti
Basu, one of the founding politburo members of the CPI-M, was the Chief
Minister of West Bengal during the Left Front rule from 1977-2000 before
voluntarily stepping down owing to ill-health and old age. He passed away on
Janaury 17, 2010.
The CPI-M
plans to utilise the centre to store documents concerning the leader as also
the communist movements in India and elsewhere in the world.
The
proposed centre is scheduled to have digitised information on Basu, besides
housing an auditorium, a conference room, a seminar room, a library and guest
rooms.
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