ব্রিটবাংলা ডেস্ক : দলের ন্যাশনাল এক্সিকিউটিভ কমিটিতে বাম ঘরনার সদস্য সংখ্যা বাড়ায় নতুন মোড় নিতে পারে ইউকের লেবারপার্টিতে। ফিরতে পারেন সাবেক লন্ডন মেয়র কেন লিভিংস্টোন, সাবেক এমপি ও রেসপেক্ট নেতা জর্জ গেলওয়ে।
টাওয়ার হ্যামলেটসের সাবেক মেয়র লুৎফুর রহমানকে সরাসরি এবং পাবলিকলি সমর্থনের দায়ে লেবার পার্টির ন্যাশনাল এক্সিকিউটি কমিটি থেকে বরখাস্ত হওয়া নেত্রী ক্রিষ্টিন সোক্রফট দলের ডিসিপ্লিনারি কমিটির চেয়ার হিসেবে নির্বাচত হওয়ায় নতুন আলো উঠতে পারে টাওয়ার হ্যামলেটসের সাবেক মেয়র লুৎফুর রহমানের ভাগ্যাকাশেও। আরো তথ্য জানতে নিচের ভিডিওতে ক্লিক করুন :
Labour NCC election result : Old JC ally’s coming back
The new members of Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) include Jon Lansman, a key ally and the founder of pro-Corbyn group Momentum.
Jeremy Corbyn has strengthened his hold on the Labour party after three of his left-wing backers won crucial seats on its ruling body.
15th January election result is likely to tip the delicate balance of power between so-called ‘moderate’ and ‘left slate’ members of the 39-member National Executive Committee (NEC).
new members of the NEC include Jon Lansman, a key ally of Mr Corbyn and the founder of pro-Corbyn group Momentum.
Mr Lansman, who won 65,163 votes, tweeted triumphantly:
He will be joined by fellow left-wingers Rachel Garnham, a member of the Nation Policy Forum and Constituency Labour Party secretary for Mid Bedfordshire and Yasmine Dar, a councillor in Moston, Manchester who ran for selection in the Manchester Gorton by-election.
Ms Garnham won 62,982 votes and Ms Dar won 68,388.
Labour moderates fear comeback for Ken Livingstone and George Galloway :
Labour moderates fear Ken Livingstone and George Galloway could make a return to the party after the hard-left seized control of the disciplinary body.
Christine Shawcroft, a Momentum activist who was elected to the powerful post on 15th January.
And centrists in the party fear she will use the post to Jeremy Corbyn’s old friends and hard-left allies to firm up his grip on the party.
A senior Labour source said, Mr Livingstone and Mr Galloway would be brought back into the fold.
Mr Livingstone was suspended from representing Labour after he said Hitler was a ‘Zionist’, plunging the party into a fresh anti-Semitism row. While Mr Galloway, who once memorably impersonated a cat on Celebrity Big Brother, was booted out in 2015 for running against Labour in the election.
But rumours have swirled around Westminster that the firebrand MP – who set up the anti war party Respect – could make a controversial return despite still having half of his five year ban to return.
A senior Labour source said: ‘Ken has already been referred to the NCC so they would have to clear him again.’
If the controversial duo do make a return it will expose deep splits within Labour’s ranks.
Mr Livingstone sparked outrage among his party colleagues when he repeatedly went on air to say that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was actually a ‘Zionist’.
He was suspended from the party for a year after making the incendiary remarks in April 2016, but within minutes of having the suspension lifted in April last year he repeated the claims again.
He was handed another 12 month ban from representing the party.
John Mann, Labour MP for Bassetlaw, has previously branded the ex London Mayor a ‘Nazi apologist’, while other MPs said the comments were ‘hideous’ and ‘weird’.
Mr Galloway was an MP for Labour for 18 years but split from it to ally himself with members of the Socialist Workers Party and founded the Respect Party in 2004 in opposition to the Iraq War.
After some fleeting electoral success the party has now been abandoned and Mr Galloway lost his Bradford seat in the 2015 election.
He is a long-time ally of Corbyn and is thought to have been eyeing a return to the party since his old friend was elected leader.
The head of Labour’s disciplinary panel has been ousted and replaced with a director of the pro-Jeremy Corbyn campaign group Momentum.
A source confirmed reports that chair of the party’s Disputes Panel with Christine Shawcroft by 22 votes to 15 this afternoon.
Ms Shawcroft, a director of Momentum Campaign (Services) Ltd, last year described Mr Corbyn’s Labour opponents as “hard-right” and deputy Labour leader Tom Watson as “rather right wing”.
She has been on the NEC for more than a decade but was suspended from the party in 2015 for publicly supporting disgraced Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman.
Although the panel – a sub-group of the NEC – is designed to be independent, it has a crucial role analysing complaints against members accused of sexism, racism or anti-semitic abuse.
But Ms Shawcroft told the Mirror: “I really don’t know what all the fuss is about”.
Ms Shawcroft denied the move was a “left-wing takeover”, saying she had been on the NEC for 19 years and the Disputes Panel was “just a minor subcommittee”.
She added: “The centre left grassroots alliance, which supports the nine [local party] NEC members, represents the mainstream of the party.”
She defended her comments about Tom Watson, saying: “I would say Tom is right of centre, I don’t mean it as an insult.
“I would imagine he would agree that that is his position.”
And she stuck by her defence of Lutfur Rahman, saying his case – in which he was found guilty of corrupt and illegal practices by an electoral court in 2015 – was “a terrible miscarriage of justice”.
