GUWAHATI: A group of 15 peasants’ activists, who joined the Delhi farmers’ protests against the three farm laws under the aegis of Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), concluded a marathon campaign in four legislative constituencies in the agrarian belt on the south of Brahmaputra in Kamrup district on Sunday, and urged people to reject the BJP-led NDA in the state.
This zone has been a nerve centre of farmers’ activism since the days of communist revolutionary Bishnu Prasad Rava.
The group during the campaign, which was started on March 1, urged voters to reject the “anti-farmer” BJP and its key ally AGP in the elections by distributing pamphlets, holding street corner meetings and campaigning in shops and commercial establishments against farm bills and price rise.
Prithiraj Rava submitted his nomination earlier this week.
GUWAHATI: Asom Gana Parishad has taken a leap of faith by fielding Prithiraj Rava instead of Brindaban Goswami from Tezpur. Rava is the son of cultural icon and communist revolutionary Bishnu Prasad Rava, and AGP hopes that he will do well at the hustings riding on the aura of his late father.
Bishnu Rava had spent many years underground as a leader of Revolutionary Communist Party of India before joining Communist Party of India in 1950s. In 1967, he contested the assembly elections as an Independent and won. He was a lifelong socialist.
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