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<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><font size=3
color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>November 17, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><font size=3 color=black
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Press Statement<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=3 color=black
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Polit Bureau of the Communist
Party of India (Marxist) has issued the following statement:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Attack
on Surya Kanta Mishra Condemned<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=3 color=black
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Polit Bureau of the Communist
Party of India (Marxist) condemns the attack by workers belonging to the
Trinamul Congress on <st1:PersonName w:st="on">CPI</st1:PersonName>(M) Polit
Bureau member and Secretary of the West Bengal State Committee, Com. Surya
Kanta Mishra today.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=3 color=black
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Comrade Surya Kanta Mishra was
leading a procession in the connection with the bye elections to the Tamluk
parliamentary constituency in the Haldia segment. The Left Front candidate
belonging to the <st1:PersonName w:st="on">CPI</st1:PersonName>(M), Smt.
Mandira Pande is contesting from this seat. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=3 color=black
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>What makes the attack more
reprehensible is that it took place in the presence of senior police officials.
This is the latest incident in the continued campaign of violence that the
Trinamul Congress has unleashed against the <st1:PersonName w:st="on">CPI</st1:PersonName>(M)
and the Left Front in <st1:place w:st="on">West Bengal</st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The West Bengal State Committee of
the Party has called upon all its units in the state to organise protest
actions against this heinous attack.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><b><font size=3
color=black face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>(Hari
Singh Kang)<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>For Central Committee Office</span></font></b><font
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