Kolkata: Trinamool, CPM and Congress netas shared the dais at the launch of a common platform of civil society organisations and opposition political parties on Saturday and gave the call for a fight together to restore names of voters deleted during SIR.Vasundhara Goswami of Mamata TMC, Kallol Majumdar, CPM’s Kolkata district secretary, and Prasenjit Bose from Congress were present at a news conference to announce the launch of All Bengal Joint Forum to Safeguard the Right to Vote. Party seniors from CPIML-Liberation and CPI were also present.The platform will organise a convention on Nov 21, but the venue is yet to be fixed. “We have approached many halls. Getting a hall to organise conventions has suddenly become a difficult task in Bengal,” said a member.“We will send invites to senior functionaries of all opposition political parties for the convention,” said Avik Saha of Bharat Jodo Abhiyan.Retired IAS officer Jawhar Sircar, Sujato Bhadra from Association for Protection of Democratic Rights and Garga Chatterjee of Bangla Pokkho were also present at the launch.The opposition had also come together earlier, writing to state election commissioner Krishna Gupta demanding that KMC and other civic body polls be held only after special summary revision of rolls was completed. Signatories to that letter included CPM’s Samik Lahiri and Mamata TMC’s Saugata Roy.
