Thursday, March 20, 2014

Killing is survival Strategy of Buddha

Killing is survival Strategy of Buddha
Palash Biswas
Contact: Palash C Biswas, C/O Mrs Arati Roy, Gosto Kanan, Sodepur, Kolkata- 700110, India. Phone: 91-033-25659551

Aamar Gram, Tomar Gram, Shobar Gram: Nandigram,
Nandigram
My Village; Your Village; Everybody's village.
Nandigram. Nandigram
Buddha and CPIM have no other Survival Strategy but killing Nandigarm People once again!

Officials confirm that One killed, two injured in clashes at Nandigram between supporters of ruling CPI-M and Bhumi Ucched Pratirodh Committee (BUPC), spearheading the movement against land acquisition,  today.  TV live telecast puts the death toll three at least! Media censorship is on. And you have to depend on official sources in War Zone!
The trouble started, according to villagers here, early in the morning when about 200 CPI-M activists began to fire bullets and throw bombs from the Khejuri side of Talpati canal at Satangabari, Bahargunge area in Nandigram block-II and at Simulkhanda in Nandigram block- I. The villagers under attack fled their homes fearing “lethal” assault by CPI-M cadres.
Supporters of the BUPC regrouped around 10-30 a.m to confront CPI-M cadres who had already advanced into the villages at Nandigram. The battle continued for over four hours after which CPI-M cadres retreated.
The CPI-M claimed two of their supporters succumbed to bullet injuries. They were identified as Dilip Mondal (19), a resident of Gokulnagar, and Mahitosh Karan (42), a resident of Jambari. Two other injured CPI-M supporters, Pintu Mondal and Nitai Mondal, have been admitted to Kamarda block hospital in Khejuri. On the other hand, BUPC leaders claimed that four villagers belonging to their organisation sustained bullet injuries and were admitted to Nandigram block hospital. One of them, Prakash Das, was later shifted to Tamluk Sadar hospital in a critical condition.
One person was shot dead and two others received bullet injuries during the clashes between CPI-M supporters and BUPC at Nandigram block-II, IGP (law and order) Raj Kanojia told PTI in Kolkata.  He said that tension prevailed in the area following the clashes. The injured were rushed to hospital.
  Local police said that bombs were hurled and gunshots exchanged between CPI(M) and BUPC activists as clashes continued for the third consecutive day today at Nandigram.  They said that trouble began this morning when about 100-200 people from Khejuri tried to enter Nandigram in batches.  Gunshots were also heard from Bhangabera, Satingabari, Adhikaripara and Shimulkundu areas in Nandigram, the police said.

Trinamool Congress MLA Sisir Adhikari alleged that the CPI-M cadres were attacking people at Nandigram from Khejuri and creating a reign of terror. 

I have warned you already two days back, another genocide in Nandigram is feared! Memories of other days haunt the present while the present heralds the cold horror in future!
 Live AND PROLONGED  telecast of Mamtas`s press conference was a Hint only! The violence continued unabated despite Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s statement that the proposed chemical hub would not be located at Nandigram. As it was clearcut indication and I warned you,  CPI-M claimed in a press statement that at least 50-60 armed TC activists raided Baharganj and Jambari villages in Khejuri, Nandigram-1 and Nandigram-2 blocks.  The party alleged that a ‘‘provocative’’ speech by Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee on April 25 at Garchakraberia had encouraged her party’s supporters to launch attacks against CPI-M cadre at Nandigram. 
Don`t you understand the game plan?

 A concerned West Bengal Governor G K Gandhi today said he was keeping a close watch on the situation and discussed the matter with Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee.  ‘‘I have discussed the Nandigram development with Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and I am keeping a close watch on the situation,’’ a Raj Bhavan communique said quoting the Governor today. 
This was the second statement by the Governor after the March 14 police firing at Nandigram in which 14 people were killed and scores of others injured.
 Expressing serious concern over fresh violence, Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee today sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s intervention to stop ‘‘atrocities’’ on people.
While Nandigram continued to witness fresh violence, Trinamool Congress Chief Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said that a National Democratic Alliance (NDA) delegation will inform President Dr A P J Abdul Kalam on the issue soon. 
 
 

 

"Our MP Dinesh Tribedi will lead an NDA delegation to President A P J Abdul Kalam shortly to inform him about the happenings in Nandigram," she said.
Banerjee said that the party has already sought Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh's intervention to stop the violence.
"We have already informed the Prime Minister's Office about the situation in Nandigram and sought his intervention to stop the unabated violence there," Banerjee told reporters here.
She further said that the party will organise an hour long 'rasta roko' (road blockade) in West Bengal on Monday from 11am to 12 noon.
She also appealed to all parties except the ruling CPI-M to take to the streets to demand the restoration of peace in Nandigram.
Banerjee has also announced a series of programmes, including a gherao of all police stations in the State on May 2 and meetings across the State to condemn the violence.
She alleged that the Government was itself "sponsoring violence" in Nandigram.
She said this in reply when asked as to why Trinamool Congress or its allies were not participating in all-party meetings called by the East Midnapore District administration to restore peace in Nandigram.
Banerjee also question as to why violence was continuing in Nandigram if a chemical hub was not to be set up there.

  Forward Bloc state general secretary Ashok Ghose said intervention by a third party was needed to bring the recalcitrant opposition and ruling parties on the negotiating table in view of an all-party meeting failing to take place repeatedly.
 ‘‘A piquant situation has developed which can be resolved only by the intervention of a third force,’’ Ghose said.
 Buddhadev bhattacharya and his party concentrated on Nandigram long before. Taming the resistance is a specialised mechanism of the forces in power. Marxists of Bengal learnt the art very well during Comrade Jyoti Basu`s tenure as Chief Minister of Bengal, during starngulation of the Thundering Spring in seventies and amidst the merciless massacre of Dalit Refugees in Marichjhapi. We have latest examples of Keshpur, Nanur and Chhota angaria!
In the seventies, the Congress Party of India crushed the Maoist rebellion in West Bengal. Educated middle class youths were killed in scores. Those days they were known as Naxals. In a pitched battle in Jadavpur University Hostel of Kolkata, the Army finally had to bring in armor to win. During that time the main weapon Congress Party used was propaganda and media based lies.
Once again it is WAR in Nandigarm! This time it is neither Army nor the Police, it is the Marxist Gestapo which is involved in Genocide and ethenic cleansing!
Once again Bengal image is flashed as a Killing Field! Newsbreaks continue to tell you Death Toll and it follows with Horror and more Horror stories.

Left may not afford to bear a Free Zone in the RED fort! Scietific rigging machinery may work only in a Capitive geopolitics, mind you.
Meanwhile Buddha had meetings in Haldia with Laxman Seth, the MP and mastermind of Nandigram Genoside! It was a green signal for the Gestapo to go for action!
Cricket carnival is over in darkness as South Asia is once again stumped out! Is it Cricket?
The nation has been worried of its cultural haritage involving showbizz babies for long. It stood united with Bollywood Actress Shilpa Shetty entrapped  in Big Brother`s House in London. We were distresed to feel aperthied while we practice Untouchabilty for thousand and thousand years! Shilpa won the crown and we were very very proud of the beautiful  lady while she was honoured in British parliament or while she dined with the queen! Very soon the scene changed and a live kissing scene turned shilpa into a Vamp typical.
So, we are also hurt to see Mandira Bedi wearing a Sari bearing Indian Falg under knee!
This is Indian nationalty being marketed and we are very fond of this Blue revolution!
Yes , the cricket carnival wasted with big bang business loss and wastge of ads campaign and media hype!
Come Hunting Time!
Buddha and his Gestapo go for Hunting in Nandigram!
Halida is the ultimate destination of DOW`s and Salim`s chemical hub! Buddhadev has told this so many times. So Manmohan Singh, the Comrador Salve of US Imperialism and MNCs has justified so many times. The ruling class in India is nothing better than Slaves! It damn cares for Vote Bank as it may be managed with established Cadre Base and so called spritual Brahminical ideologies, pet media and intellegentsia! US interests are their interests. They may kill anyone to defend the rotten system of supremacy. Underprevileged Rural India should be annihilated mercilessly, this is the law of Post Modern Manusmriti enacted by Global Government and the Comaradors in colonies dare not to violet!
Where from you get the land for SEZ to import Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Vietnam, Iraq and Afganistan? How do you escalate Bhopal Gas Tragedy?
Based on the new, improved, growth projections, India's economy will be even bigger than that of the US before 2050 (in the first one, India's 2050 GDP would have been 80 per cent that of the US). The new report does not report the per capita income number (this would be influenced by inflation resulting from a higher GDP growth) but in the first report, in 2050, India would still have a per capita income, which is only a fifth that of the US.
Capitalist Marxist way of indiscriminate Industialisation and Urbanisation is not limited in Bengali Geopolitics at all as based on the new, improved, growth projections, India's economy will be even bigger than that of the US before 2050 (in the first one, India's 2050 GDP would have been 80 per cent that of the US). The new report does not report the per capita income number (this would be influenced by inflation resulting from a higher GDP growth) but in the first report, in 2050, India would still have a per capita income, which is only a fifth that of the US.Thus, the crux of the projections is the productivity surge that India will get due to the "demographic dividend" and the "urbanisation bonus" - essentially a higher educated younger population, increasingly living in urban areas, would be far more productive than the less educated and largely rural population of the past.The country's international trade has boomed (the trade-to-GDP ratio rose from 13 per cent in 1990 to around 31 per cent in 2005) while tariffs fell from 48 per cent to around 10; access to finance has increased dramatically and domestic  credit-to-GDP rose from 27 per cent in 1991 to around 43 per cent of GDP in 2005; IT expenditure is up to around 6 per cent of GDP from 3.5 per cent in 2001; India had 23 cities with a population of over a million in 1991 and this rose to 35 a decade later (by 2020, another 140 million rural dwellers will move to urban areas, according to Goldman Sachs projections); the list goes on.

Americanisation is the only agenda of the Hindu Zionist Comrador ruling classes in India!
After Tatas , now it is Mahindra! Mahindra has to get a SEZ in Haldia for motor factory.
Mukesh Ambani is lobbying in New delhi to woo the Kulin Brahmin Pranab Mukherjee to capture Retail Market in Rural Bengal as he has got a chemistry with Buddha despite contradictions in the ruling left front and objections expressed by nonogeneration patriarch Basu!
Under the Centre's industrial package, industries setting up shop in states including Uttarakhand before March 31, 2010 would enjoy exemption from excise duty, besides income tax holiday up to March 31, 2013. West Bengal has started making noise about concessions extended to select states to promote industrialisation, saying such sops affected its own ability to attract huge private investments.
Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, addressing a CPI-M rally in Barasat on Saturday, said he had talked to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh about the industrial package extended to hilly states, particularly Uttarakhand, which is trying to wean away Tata Motors from Singur by promising tax holidays.
Bhattacharjee said Uttarakhand has reportedly informed Tata Motors that the company would accrue benefits to the tune of Rs 18,000 crore over a period of time if it relocated its small-car plant to the hilly state.
Talking of industry, Bhattacharjee said investment proposals worth Rs 78,000 crore had been received by his government during 2006-07, compared to Rs 32,000 crore in 2005-06.
The investment proposals included a steel-making factory at Salboni worth Rs 35,000 crore and another at Purulia worth Rs 11,000 crore, he said.
The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) activists on Saturday clashed with an anti-land acquisition group here.The groups threw bombs and fired in Nandigram's Tulaghata area.The clashes have been continuing since Friday.
Trinamool Congress-backed Bhumi Ucched Pratirodh Committee (BUPC) clashed with CPI (M) activists at Bhangaberia area on Friday.No casualty has been reported during the two days of clashes.
Meanwhile, CPI MLA SK Ilias Mohammed, who was allegedly assaulted by Trinamool Congress supporters on Friday, led a rally to protest against it.
Mohammed has lodged an FIR on the incident.
Trinamool Congress Chief Mamata Banerjee has been opposing the acquisition of farmland for industries in the State.
On March 14, at least 14 people were killed in police firing at Nandigram in east Midnapore District.
The ruling Left eventually shelved plans for an industrial park at Nandigram that was to have been built with the help of Indonesia's Salim Group.
Soon after the stay on the Nandigram project, Bhattacharjee had affirmed commitment to continue the project at another location in the State.
 Echoing Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's allegation about the Centre's inaction in dealing with the situation in Nandigram, the Congress on Saturday said the UPA government should have been "more active" on this issue. Congress’ stand came at a time when it is under attack from the followers of Union Minister P R Dasmunsi that the state unit of the party had failed to take up any movement on the Nandigram issue and not participated in any protest against the acquisition of farm land for industry. Senior party leader Subrata Mukhrjee, a Dasmunsi loyalist, has claimed that the Trinamool Congress is ahead in the movement on Nandigram "due to failure of the PCC".
"The Centre should have been more active on the question of law and order in Nandigram, though it is a state subject, by exploring legal and constitutional aspects," State Congress Working Committee President Pradip Bhattacharya said.
He said a party delegation will soon meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi and also seek an appointment with President A P J Abdul Kalam to apprise them of the "explosive situation" created in Nandigram by efforts to acquire land for industries.
"The state unit of Congress will appeal to the Centre to find a way to resolve the Nandigram crisis," he said.
Expressing concern at recurring violence perpetrated allegedly by the CPI-M, Bhattacharya said if the situation was allowed to drift further, "it may go beyond control and the state government will be solely responsible for it".
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Nandigram
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Nandigram v • d • eWest Bengal • India
  Nandigram 
Coordinates: 22.03° N 88.06° E
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)
Area
• Elevation
• 6 m (20 ft)
District(s) Midnapore East
Coordinates: 22.03° N 88.06° E
For the recent controversy over SEZ, see Nandigram SEZ controversy
Nandigram is a rural area in Purba Medinipur district of the Indian state of West Bengal. It is located around 150 km from Kolkata, on the south bank of the Haldi River, opposite the industrial city of Haldia. The area falls under Haldia Development Authority.[1]
Recently, Nandigram has witnessed protests against the setting up of an SEZ, leading to clashes between protestors and police which have left a number of people dead and accusations of police brutality and Naxalite insurgency from either side.
Contents [hide]
1 Geography
2 Politics
3 Health
4 Transport
5 Education
6 References
7 See also
 

[edit] Geography
Much of the land in Nandigram was formed fairly recently as a delta at the mouth of the Haldi river. Although it is on the other bank from the industrial city of Haldia, Nandigram has seen little development; agriculture and estuarine fishing form the backbone of the economy. Most of the population are poor or middle class farmers. In some areas, the same plot of agricultural land may become a fishing pond at other times in the year.

[edit] Politics
Communist Party of India has a strong presence in the area. It not only holds Nandigram constituency but also neighbouring Patashpur, Panskura (West) and Tamluk.[1] Illias Mahammad Sk. is member of the state legislative assembly from Nandigram.[2]
In March 2007, Nandigram was the centre of civil unrest over a special economic zone, which the state government had proposed for the area. At least 14 people were killed at police firing. (See Nandigram massacre). All killed were villagers, no police were among the dead.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nandigram
India's Generation Next
India: In one of the world's oldest civilizations rests one of the world's youngest populations; nearly one out of 10 people on the planet are under 25 years old and living in India. How will this so-called "demographic dividend" change India and affect the world? CNN takes a snapshot of India's youth.
http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/eyeonindia/
Nandigram SEZ controversy
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Information may change rapidly as the event progresses.
The Nandigram SEZ controversy started when the West Bengal government decided that the Salim group of Indonesia[1] would develop a special economic zone at Nandigram, a rural area in the district of Purba Medinipur. This would require the acquisition of over 14,000 acres of land. The special economic zone would be spread over 29 mouzas (villages) of which 27 are in Nandigram.[2] Probodh Panda, a CPI MP from the district has said that most of the land to be acquired is multi crop and would affect over 40,000 people.[3] Social activist Medha Patkar had visited Nandigram on 7 December 2006 to protest against land acquisition.[4]
However, noted folk-singer & resident of nandigram, Mr Subhendu Maiti refuted the argument Nandigram's is entirely multi-crop land & the farmers are making their living in a decent manner through farming. He pointed out that almost 25,000 men & women of Nadigram's agricultural families moved out of it in search of bread.[[1]]. Also, because of saline water, farming has never been a profitable venture for many in the area.
The project of Chemical Hub was won by the state government competing with 9 other Indian states. A legislative team led by Mr Sudip Bandyopadhyay, Ex-Trinamool & presently Congress member visited the sight & confirmed that the area is indeed suitable for the project.The project was supposed to provide employment to 1 lakh people & being in the vicinity of Haldia Petrochemicals & IOC refinery,the Left argued that this is the best place to build a hub from the point of view of supply-chain integration.[[2]]
The Salim Group has sought around 35,000 acres of land for a series of ambitious projects.[5] Apart from the special economic zone (which is a 50:50 joint venture with the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation) it has been assigned the construction of the 100 km long 100 m wide Eastern Link Expressway and construction of a four-lane road bridge over the Haldi River, from Haldia to Nandigram, has also been planned. The proposed bridge would provide a link between Haldia and the proposed chemicals SEZ in Nandigram.[6] The Barasat-Raichak expressway and the Raichak-Kukrahati bridge, will connect Haldia to National Highway 34.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nandigram_SEZ_controversy
MoU for another small car factory
Statesman News Service
KOLKATA, April 28. — The state is set to get another small car factory, and in all likelihood, this one will come up faster than the Tata’s small car factory in Singur and on a considerably smaller area of about 150 acres.
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed here today between the Xenitis group of West Bengal and Guangzhou Motors of China to manufacture passenger cars in the state. The joint venture project will be set up in Hooghly district for which land has already been bought.
Though Mr Santanu Ghosh, chairman and managing director of Xenitis, did not specify what will be the price of the small car, he said, “the car will roll out by the year 2008 and will be very affordably priced and will fulfil the long cherished dream of a people’s car.”
The joint venture company will also manufacture buses and trucks. Mr Ghosh, however, said that it will take some more time to finalise the plans and decide on the investment volumes.
The Xenitis group today also signed a number of memoranda of understanding in the infotech, automobile and mobile phone sector with a number of companies in presence of the West Bengal chief minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee.
The company also signed agreements with 19 ancillary units for manufacturing of automobile parts (for both two-wheelers and four-wheelers).
An auto ancillary park will be set up to house these units which will supply parts to Global Auto’s both ventures. “The units here will provide direct employment to at least 500 people,” said Mr Ghosh.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr Bhattacharjee said that the private sector automobile giant has entered into a joint venture with a company in the state to set up a manufacturing unit. “Even Ashok Leyland is having discussions with the government,” he said refusing to give any further details.
The chief minister also launched Global Automobile’s ~ a Xenitis group venture ~ first two-wheeler, Expression.
The company also entered into an agreement with Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) to open 350 service centres for its two-wheelers at the PSUs retail outlets throughout the state. IOC will also manufacture a special 4T oil for its bike.
The CMD of Xenitis also said that the two-wheelers will be launched nationally within six months. Bicycles manufactured by the company were also launched here this morning.
The group signed an MoU with Singapore’s Longcheer technology to produce mobile handsets. The mobile phones manufacturing plant will also come up in Hooghly and the phones will be launched by September this year.
Besides, the company signed 3-year agreements with 24 PC manufactures in the country for supply of hardware from its manufacturing unit ensuring revenue of Rs 2,150 crore.
http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=12&theme=&usrsess=1&id=154926
Centre-state commission: CPI(M) sees red, seeks review 
http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=368301&sid=NAT
New Delhi, April 28: The setting up of a commission to redefine Centre-state relations today drew sharp criticism from the CPI(M) which asked the government to review the decision taken without consulting the states in violation of the established convention.
The CPI(M), which rules West Bengal, Kerala and Tripura, said a convention has been adopted in the recent years where the Centre consults the states before publishing the terms of reference of even a constitutionally mandated commission like the Finance Commission.
"There has been a gross violation of the convention in this case because the states are not consulted on the matter," it said and sought a review of the matter in the forthcoming meeting of the national development council before taking any final decision.
The party was also seriously concerned over the terms of reference as well as the composition of the new commission, to be chaired by former Chief Justice of India M M Punchhi, announced by the government yesterday.
"The terms of reference of the commission do not include any of the major points in the Centre-state relations such as the needed increase in the share of central taxes for the states, transfer of centrally sponsored schemes in the state subjects to the states and alleviation of the problem of debt burden on the state," it said in a statement.
The exclusion of the all these items was dismaying as these were emphasised in the National Common Minimum Programme of the UPA, the party noted.
Moreover, the Left party felt that there has been an "intrusion" into the jurisdiction of the states as the terms of reference include suo motu interference in the sphere of law and order as well as suo motu deployment of Central forces in investigating certain category of crimes.
"These go against the basic issue because Law and Order is a state subject," it said.
The party also raised objections of the composition of the commission as "no noted expert on Centre-state relations has been included" in it.
The commission was expected to examine the possibility of giving sweeping powers to the Centre including reviewing its role, responsibility and jurisdiction vis-a-vis states during major and prolonged outbreaks of communal violence, caste violence or any other social conflict.
Under the terms of reference, which could have far reaching political implications, the four-member commission would also review other aspects of Centre-state relations including taxes and linking of rivers.
The panel, which has been set up after over two decades of the Sarkaria commission, has Dhirendra Singh and V K Duggal, both former Union Home Secretaries, and N R Madhava Menon, former Director of National Judicial Academy as members.
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NANDIGRAM:
It Is Surely A Social Justice Battle
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(Ranjit Singh)
New York: April 13, 07.
On March 14, a big police force of about 5000 cops entered Nandigram, a town in the eastern
District of Midnapore, West Bengal and besieged it with the avowed objective of capturing their
farmlands. Even though the government’s intelligence bureau had pre warned the government of
the grave consequences of this police operation, named “Operation Nandigaram”, the CPM-led
Left Government of West Bengal took it lightly and ignored it. Not expecting a huge resistance,
the police found a crowd of 10,000-15,000 peasants ready to abort the police designs to forcibly
capture their lands. Still, determined to scare the resisters into silence, police opened
indiscriminate firing, the end result of which was widespread killing and humiliation of the women
folk.
The media-persons with their cameras did justice to an otherwise unjust scene. The nation saw
what the West Bengal government would not have made public. The government says that the
police had to resort to firing as the villagers pelted stones on them, and burnt their vehicles,
thereby, necessitating a defensive action, which caused 14 killings. But the people opposed to
the government and mostly depending on the media reports showed live from the war-like zone,
put the death figures above hundred, with 200 more injured, some of them seriously and also
gang-rape of peasant women. After initial denials, the government later admitted to one rape case
of a peasant woman by two police men.
PUBLIC RESPONSE
The public response, which grew more and more adverse, day by day, took the Left government
by surprise and shocked it to the extent of embarrassment and confusion. The governor of the
state, Mr. Gandhi, was the first to speak out and called it a “cold horror.” The Calcutta High Court
took a suo motu notice and ordered a C.B.I report. Many intellectuals returned their awards to the
state. Editors gave strong opinions in their editorials. Citizens, within and outside India spoke out
and condemned the incident. Many human right groups and activists, including Amnesty
International (India) stood up in defense of the peasants. the arch rival of the Left government,
Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress supported by its national supporter, N.D.A, jumped into
political action. So much so that even their partners in government, the three smaller Left Political
parties, CPI, RSP and AIFB demanded an immediate withdrawal of police from Nandigram and
resignation of the Chief Minister, failing which they threatened to quit and topple the government.
All this put the West Bengal government in the defensive and forced it to shelve the plan. But
surprisingly and even unfortunately, none of those who  condemned the police brutality made no
mention of the nature of resistance. No one gave the opinion if it was okay to acquire farmlands
and displace the peasants by means if they were not violent or brutal. It, therefore, goes to the
credit of only the activists like Medha Patkar, who see the injustice behind the SEZ strategy as it
is today and are willing to make sacrifices, to the best of their capacities.

NATURE OF POLICE ACTION:
Under the heat of attacks from various quarters, the West Bengal Government found it difficult to
protect its progressive image. The police action against peasantry by a government led by a party
that boasts of the peasantry as its main political base was something that no one could reconcile
to. The Left government of West Bengal , therefore, began to paint the peasant resistance as a
“law and order” situation, created by anti-development groups, who have taken control of the
villages and are being supported and instigated by a few opposition parties, a few activists like
Medha Patkar and even by “faceless Maoists.” This particular incident, the 15th March
bloodbath, according to the government version was a law enforcing agencies’ response to the
violence unleashed by the peasants organized under a peasants committee named BPUC, which
has been virtually in political control of that zone.
Whereas, even the government version of the bloodshed has been successfully falsified by the
socio-political activists, the facts emerging out of the struggle compel a strong indictment of the
government in regard to the nature of Resistance.
The activists challenge that the violence was not caused by the peasants, who were unarmed. As
a proof, they say that not even a single police man was injured and admitted into any hospital. On
the contrary, many of those killed were shot at the back, meaning thereby, they were trying to run
for safety, in fear. The police, in violation of the standard code of “dispersing the mob”, had not
resorted to firing in the legs. By all means, their motive was to scare them into silence, killings, no
problem. West Bengal Government’s claim that the Nandigram violence was a “law and order
problem”. in which the government wanted “to salvage” the region from anti-government forces
does not stand to the test of objective judgment.
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