While I do agree with you entirely that SEZ's are here to stay and Govt. should let the private sector do its own land acquistion.
What your article has missed out is that what happened is Nandigram is a repeat of the Jallianwalla Bagh Massacare in Punjab by the British in 1911.
One wonders why no party or police force is being charged with murder - because that is what happened in Nandigram on 14 March 2007. The Key players being two men - Lakshman Seth (MP) and Arun Gupta (IG).
Strangely - even Court has asked the CBI to STOP investigation. The Governor has been told to keep mum.
So do we conclude that Indian political parties can GRAB land and if you don't agree with them - they will use all the organs of the state and the muscle power of the party to KILL and MURDER the Indian citize.
And no amount of Court or police or centre or Indian constitution or army will come to the defence of the citizen??
Do we conclude that India is ruled by Tyrants worse than the British raj?? Or worse than the dictators of Pakistan and Uganda?? Of course under the guise of Indian "Democracy."
Your article is incomplete by glossing over these facts.
I fear that injustice in Nadnigram or delay in justice in Nadigram. Justice to correct "STATE TERRORISM" in Nandigram - is creating a HUGE gap between the haves and the have nots. Politicians now are increasingly being viewed as "EVIL" rather than as good.
This lack of justice will increase the grounds-well of support for maoism and naxalism. They will now be viewed as boys "delivering justice". Police and politicans are the new EVIL. The courts take too long and are too tied down by process to deliver justice effectively and speedily. This is exactly what happened in Nepal and led to the downfall of the Monarchy.
And this is where the entire India growth story and SEZ story will come to a great and speedy end.
It is a historical irony that the Congress which owes its rise to the Jalianwalla bagh firing refrains justice to the victims of "Jalianwala bagh in Nandigram". Neither Manmohan Singh now Sonia Gandhi has bothered to visit Bengal.
Even the great & pompus President who talks of education and emancipation has not bothered to visit Nandigram.
Even a Supreme court justice or the Governor could have taken an army escort and gone to nandigram on the 14th or even the 15th. They did not. Sitting and twiddling their thumbs under a 'democracy' and 'protectors of the constitution'.
I wonder how future history of India is going be written after Nandigram. Will it be written as a victory of the Communists party who could contain it and conquer India??
Or will Nandigram 2007 be the trigger which gives the maoists a massive support base with the common India. As Nandigram reveals to the common Indian how the politicans had become a land grabbers. How the state had become a terrorist-land grabbing mafia.
And as there was no justice in India. So the common man began supporting the maoists against the entrenched politican-bureaucratic-justice system.
It was in 2004 when I was traveling in a bus in New Delhi, I overheard a few passengers talking derisively about the political class and their corrupt ways. Post Nandigram - this perception will increase.
Does the future hold SEZ's or maoism??
Is India a democracy with an established justice suystem or are we a sham democracy with an ineffective system of justice, where police and politicians get away with murder.
