An update on the Nandigram issue at Kafila. Where the state swoops down to grab land. “Singur, unlike the impressions outside, is still fighting with strength and spirit. Thousands of bargadars, labourers and also landholders are not for the forcible occupation of land although fencing of 997 acres of the land, protected by the sheer police force i.e., the State’s might stands.”
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NANDIGRAM: Two women have filed a formal complaint with police alleging that some of its personnel raped them during the Nandigram violence last week, police said on Sunday.
The two women, who are under treatment at the Tamluk hospital presently, have recorded their statement before a police officer, they said.
The victims, both housewives aged 27 years and 25 years, alleged that some police personnel cornered them during the melee after the firing at Sonachura village on March 14 and raped them.
The formal complaint was filed after they narrated their ordeal before a NDA delegation led by Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha L K Advani on Saturday.
The women were earlier under treatment at Nandigram block hospital but later shifted to Tamluk Hospital.
The doctors have already examined the two women and confirmed that they have some injury marks on their body.
A large number of women and children were also injured in the March 14 violence as they were among the 5,000-strong crowd that resisted police while trying to enter Nandigram. A total of 14 persons, including two women, were killed in the police firing.
the opposition parties are responsible for nandigram killings.
they confused people regeding land aquisition, collected money for buing arms and amunitions and finaly attacked the police. but after all what finaly happened is unwnted and pathetic.the opposition patrties will have to take the responsibility of the incident.
The state & cpi(m) party cadres joint brutality at Nandigram is worse than the worst brutality ever perpetuated by even the British. JulianwalaBagh has been shamed. The so called’marxist’ party cpi-m etched its name in blood in the hall of shame.Stalin has been shamed too as his brutal actions do not add upto the cpi-m brutality in bengal.Can you believe that unarmed children and women have been shot dead while fleeing, their bodies dumped and some even been buried in mass graves. Rapes, destruction, burning have been order of the day. It was worse than genocide yet no regrets from the ‘marxist’ party or punishment for the perpetuators of the crime. It is time to stand up and be counted in the interest of humanity. the only crime of these poor people was that they didnot want their agricultural land to be accquired by the government, for businessmen. Can’t they buy at market rates directly? why should poor illiterate people deprived of their only source of income, agriculure?
Probably this govt and leftfront teamleaders have realize that they are not going to get portfolio neither in next left-front ministry nor in LeftFront and so trying to grab money as much as possible in this period. There are lots of land available in West Bengal, but Buddha-Biman-Nirupom sold themselves to few businessman and we wil have to depend on Tata-Agro or Halim food Products in future. Today they have 230 seats in assembly due to the hard work done by former communist party members in rural bengal. Can they go for an election immediately within one month for now and let’s see what they get. Their act is allowing Islamic fundamentalists, Hindu fundamentalists, Mao-Badis a strong foot-hold on the soil of bengal along with bunch of jokers TMC. CPI(M) leadership under guidence of Jyoti Basu must find some replacement of Buddha immediately.
Outside West Bengal people have wrong idea about CPM.If anyone thinks they are very much eager to demolish poverty and ignorance he is completly wrong.CPM cultivates poverty and ignorance.In the decade of 70’s they fought against automation,remind it the first computer in India was manufactured in I.S.I kolkata,In the first part of 90’s CPMwent on protesting against Narasima Rao’s liberal economy and lost the second chance to take the lead.Outsiders of West Bengal do not know how CPM run their rulling with the help of police and armed CADERS ,in each house ,in each family they keep their watch through party offices and police stations.Everywhere there is a local commitee secretary (they say LCS) and as the most powerfull man he rulls the locality.Without his kind permission no bussiness is possible,no bussiness, no industry,and nothing.When a political party as CPM speaks of developement as people of West Bengal we think it as joke.
Are CPM a real communist party?On the one hand it is opposing US,on other hand they are gleefully inviting American enterprenuers.Ironically they are opposing SEZ at Delhi but inviting unknown Saleem group to develop SEZ in Nandigram.
Now what is SEZ?Full Direct Tax exemption u/s 80IAB from A/Y 2006-07 as well as Indirect Tax exemption by SEZ Act 2005,w.e.f.10/2/2006 for the developers like Saleem and manufacturing units inside the SEZ.Actually it is a foreign land inside India.Quite noticeable today ADB objects the monetary sops allowing towards SEZ.
Double standard of CPM is exposing day by day.Budhhababu claimed to impose rule of law at Nandigram.He and his police men showed a blind eye to CPM goons at Khejuri,later on captured by CBI 10 such goons.
Law should be equal for each and everyone.But only apology cannot wash the hand of blood.
Please denounce the fascit regime of CPM everywhere.We cannot regain the lives of innocent people,cannot restore the dignity of ladies,cannot
gather the brutally murdered and dumped children in playground!!!
Shame,shame CPM!
With respect to the Singur, Nandigram etc. I had posted a post on my blog about land reforms and the learnings, activities of Hernado Soto on the topic.
However today my comment is about a slightly different matter. How is it that the Singur issue has occupied so much mindspace while in Chennai a Dubai based company called ETA construction, has added hundreds of acres of land to their land banks. All land bank deals of construction companies also need to be looked into carefully. Not only new manufacturing project sites.
Hi freinds,
got a lot of insight from ur comments.looking at the issue from a different angle now.We people outside of bengal had an idea that cpm wants to encourage industries but with ur comment an some more browsing on the topic a lot more is revealed.
Can anybody tell me which are the parties there which are activly and sincerely fighting on behaf of the people of nandigram and singur.
I expect such a party wud hv got less coverage on media as media is usually a tool in favour of the ruling party and CPM wud never allow to flash the actuall opponent on media.
rgds
trishito
Its time for People of WB to trow CPIM in the bay of bengal to save the state.
The villagers are doll(as always in W.B.) in the hand of political parties, no exception is Nandigra. I remember few years back one evening, on my way from Chandipur to Nandigram, I came across a gang ( party caders) who stopped buses on the roads to protest against war in Iraq. The same villages are under darkness even now without electricty and they never even ask for it. Only reason I brought this comparison is to highlight the very fact of life of villagers in Nandigram. They are always manipulated in hand of political partis whose leadrs are our so called ministers or opponent leaders.
Currently Seth’s (MP from Haldia) gundas along with the local CPM cadres and some people support CPM blindly are trying to attack villagers. TMC call them outseiders. On the other hand TMC supporters are also using arms to protest them. The other impotant player here are some of muslim fanatic who use this opportunity to show their mussle power and they as always are the main source of arms for TMC supporters. Media should ask this question to Govt, how these people able to acquire arms and getting constant supply of arms.
Most of the media in india always lacks the basic understanding of the situation. They always highlighting the fact how trinamul and CPM wants to reolve the problem in Nandigram. The fact is both the parties are led by people who does not have sensitivity regarding life of villagers and are least interested to solve the real issue and bringing normalcy there. The media could have played a bigger role by pointing out the real issue which they failed as expected.
The need of the moment at Nandigram is that the parties should stop encoraging their own agenda. Will they do it themselves? No, as i have explained earlier.
The villagers wont be able to do that independently and so from Goverment need to take steps to force political parties to restrain from encouarging poor villagers to kill each other.
I dont think that it would be correct to create and maintain a false sense of romance about a people’s movement around Singur. Whosoever thinks so, i am sorry to say has not followed the pattern of events.The truth of the matter is that Mamata a failed politician saw a trump card in Singur to revive her dead career. She has milead the poor people to stay poor and grow potatoes throughout their lives. Dont we all know that progress the worldover has happened only when agrarian societie’s have moved on to industrialization. Lets have the farmer of singur also have prosperity. Dont let the debt ridden poor farmer remain poor or rather add fuel to fire and scare him. Mamata you are responsible for every farmer who commits suicide in Singur. Its you who is making the shove a push in singur for the poor peasants. Please check in the url - http://singurland.blogspot.com to get the correct picture
If industrialisation means killing innocent women and children and a gross violation against humanity, then i guess singur is better off without it. How can india, a democracy allow such violation of justice? If you read the article on singur in statesman, perspective on 31st may, it seems that west bengal is under the rule of a autocrat like hitler. this is indeed shocking.
sorry, i mean nandigram, not singur
if you really want correct picture of Singur, untainted by the romance of peoples’ movement as potrayed by the Mamata Bannerjee’s and Anuradha Talwar and Medha Patkars of the world, then do log in and check out these 2 sites run by a group of progressive indians who are on the ground and in there. The url’s are
http;//singurland.blogspot.com and the other is - http://singursingur.blogspot.com. The truth is so different. The panchayat elections are a proof. The CPI(M) picked up all seats in Singur and Nandigram. The people’s mandate is out and its a slap on the face of Mamata and the fraud activists. Do have a look. Enlightening.
Its a shame for democracy! This horrible incident has shaken the world. People can’t believe that they are staying in free India. The first and foremost thing is to find the culprits and punish them to the highest extent or else another Nandigram will happen again! As top of the administration CM should resign. An unbisaed enquiry should be carried away and should finish sooner than later. I hope people of bengal react positively to this incident in the next elections to come!
It is a matter of shame that such of type of politicians like CPM leaders are still exists in this century . Such type of brutality we have seen in the middle age by Chengis Khan and Nadir Shah . I am astonished how such uncivilized and inhuman and brutal politician grown up in the 21st Century .
The existence of such type of brutal , inhuman and uncivilized politician is the shameful to whole mankind.
When CPM retook Nandigram, it was labeled illegal and violent by so called intellectuals. Where were they when thousands of CPM supporters where forced out of their villages into refugee camps for the last 11 months? Was that not illegal? Was that not violent?
What has land acquisition got to do with forcing people out of their hearth? Even after CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharya clearly stated that land will not be taken, why did they not allow the people and administration to return to Nandigram? Was that not a violation of the Constitution of India?
The Governor, Dr. Gandhi, had time to visit injured BPUC cadres and Mamata when she was fasting. Ironically, he did not have time to visit the tousands of CPM supporters living as refugees who had been forced out of their homes by TMC-BPUC-Jamiat-Maoist combine. He is clearly biased, and maybe on a secret payroll of some anti-communist entity. He, as governor, has lost his qualification to be the governor because he is clearly biased. He should be impeached.
As for industrialisation, I am all for it. Thousands of educated Bengalis have to go to Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore to work because there are no auitable jobs in Kolkata. They are also the children of Bengal. The government must provide jobs to them. If they are only going to work for the farmers and ignore the educated class, the educated class will migrate to other states and contribute to the economies of other states and West Bengal will lag behind.
As for the “innocent” people killed in Nandigram, I would object to calling those people “innocent” who hurled bombs at the police and eventually got shot and died. Let us call a spade a spade.
Mamata is hell bent on destrying the economic progress of Bengal. She is trying to sacrifice the interests of the state just to re-surge her sinking political career.
This is from a man who was born and brought up in Bengal, but today has to live outside Bengal because Bengal cannot offer me a job suited to my qualifications. Thousands of people like me are suffering and we want to live in our own state and earn as much as people like us are earning on Mumbai or Bangalore. This can happen only if there is industrialisation.
I think what has happened in Nandigram is a terrible terrible shame. And what is even worse than the shameless crime of the CPM goons is the even more shameless cover-up by the supposedly sensitive West Bengal CM, Buddhadeb Dasgupta.
If civil society has to assert itself, it has to do so here and now. We don’t want more Gujarats, more Bhagalpurs, more Nandigrams in this country anymore. What we have is enough of a crying shame as it is.
I commend the citizens and intellectuals of Calcutta, who on both counts (Rizwanur’s and Nandigram’s) rose as one voice to speak out against these atrocities. Nandigram must be brought back to normalcy soon. The goons of CPM must be punished and severely dealt with. The courts must intevene and ask for the dismissal of the State government and Mr. Hypocritical Prakash Karat must understand that if he has any decency, he needs to stop behaving like any other typical politician (a la Modi for whom there is no love lost), stop worrying needlessly about the nuclear deal and behave like a human being first and foremost.
The policy on SEZs cannot come at the cost of the livelihood of the poor and the destitute of this nation. This kind of undemocratic behaviour, which sits very well with the communists in Bengal and elsewhere, smacks of a brute state of affairs that does credit to the military junta in Burma or North Korea rather than a nation state that’s supposed to be a modern, progressive one such as ours. This is a sickeningly familiar story for the people of this country who continue to live on the margins. And it cannot be allowed to continue this way forever.