Cooch Behar, Feb. 10: The Forward Bloc has started collecting photographs and video grabs of the February 5 police firing to create a CD that will be used for campaigning against “CPM-sponsored terrorism” in the coming panchayat election.

The Cooch Behar district secretary of the Bloc, Udayan Guha, said today: “We will expose the CPM and teach it a lesson in the rural polls through our sustained campaign by screening the CD or organising street drama. We will organise silent processions and blood donation camps throughout the state on February 12.”

Guha, who came to limelight after the police firing killed five Bloc supporters and a National Volunteer Force worker, is out to cash in on the recent wave of public sympathy. Bloc leaders held closed-door meetings with party workers from the district and block levels in the past three days to boost their morale.

Kamal Guha’s son has also had talks with representatives of the APDR and CPI(ML) and sought their help in his fight against the CPM. The CPI(ML) will organise a public meeting in Cooch Behar town on February 13 to address the issue.

Guha said the CPM had organised the “mass killing” on February 5 to weaken his party’s strong base at Dinhata. According to him, the attack on the Bloc was pre-planned.

“We are also gearing up against the CPM barbarism and the display of photographs of police brutality will give the desired effect. The party will have to pay for sponsoring terrorism in the coming panchayat elections,” Guha said.

Bloc secretary Debabrata Biswas will visit Cooch Behar tomorrow and disburse compensation among the relatives of the deceased, Bloc minister Naren De, who was here today, said.

Reacting to the state government’s announcement of a judicial inquiry into the incident, Guha said his party was “not at all satisfied”. He said two other demands —withdrawal of all “false cases” against the Bloc supporters and punishment of guilty police officers — had been ignored.