CPI (M) condemn attack on its Chandigarh office by Bajrang Dal “goons”

CHANDIGARH : The Communist Party(Marxist) today strongly condemned the attack by Baljrang Dal goons on its Punjab State Headquarter in Sector 30-B, Chandigarh on Thursday.
About 75 activistsof Bajrang Dal and other frontal organisations of RSS threw stones at the office building. Five policemen who were present at site were silent spectators when they were throwing stones at the office building . Rather the policemen were asking the people inside to get behind doors, a party spokeman said.
Most of the party leaders were out of the office for some meetings in Delhi and in Punjab at the time of the incident. The families of the state leaders are also staying at the top floor of the party office who were terrorized by the goons. The windowpanes of the office were smashed by the goonda elements of the RSS and BJP. They were raising slogans ‘ Sitaram Yechury , Pakistan Agent Murdabad, ’ CPI(M) Murdabad’. The RSS and BJP hoodlums had left the place by the time party workers from the city reached there. Later police came to the party office and had discussions about the incident with the party leaders. The leaders of other parties also reached the CPI(M) office to express their solidarity with the party leaders.Comrade Raghunath Singh, State Secretariat Member, CPI(M) condemned the cowardly act of the RSS and BJP goons and demanded immediate arrest of the culprits . Comrade Devi Dayal Sharma, Secretary , CPI reached the party office expressed anguish over the incident and condemned the nefarious designs of the RSS and BJP. CPM Punjab , State Secretariat Member, Comrade Inderjit Singh condemned the cowardly action of RSS & BJP. Mr. Rajiv Godara , leader of Swaraj Abhiyan who reached the party office while interacting with press persons available at the site termed the incident as attack on democracy and apprehended that the situationis just like emergency in the country.