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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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!