The ruling party CPM has used cadres and police together to root out the opposition to grabbing poor people's land forcibly and selling it off to the Tatas. The people of WB are not against the industrialization, but the way it is being carried out by the Govt and at the cost of the farmers. The only parallel to what Govt of WB is doing in Nandigram is Nazi-operations during Hitler's regime in Germany. This call for strike has a real good reason and the people of WB would sponteneously support it.
RE:WB Strike on Friday
by Arnab Chowdhury on Mar 14, 2007 05:46 PM Permalink
The Police did not enter Nandigram in the first two months. No Nazi government would be so nice. Roads had been dug up, police officers lynched; still police did not enter nandigram. they had every right to, for they are responsible for law and order, but still they did not. Still compare them with Nazi germans? They were apprehensive of violence and though they were capable of dealing it (as they dealt yesterday) they did not want to do it the hard way. But was there any other alternative? How long can you disown law-n-order and expect authority to ignore it? how long? Besides, the most important point, what is all the agitation about? Government had made it clear they are not taking up land in Nandigram. Why the meaningless violence? Who benefits from it? definitely not the state, not the farmers. Then who? People are wise enough to understand.
RE:WB Strike on Friday
by bhaskar narayan on Mar 14, 2007 05:49 PM Permalink
i would like to ask 1 simple question to mr. ghosal. there are millions of people in the state who earn money on a day to day basis. so on friday, these people lose their chance of earning a livelihood on friday then. i suggest that mr. ghosal say these words to any 1 of these people and listen to what they have in store for him. probably he is forgetting the crude reality that it is easy for people to enjoy a day of leisure and time with the kids when their stomachs are full. it is not so easy when u're hungry and so are u'r kids. it is people like they who have made what bengal is today. i suggest that instead of blindly supporting a bunch of fools, he should think of doing something constructive and constitutional which will break the deadlock. if the commies are nazis then their political opponents are worse than the bosnians and the serbians. and they are cowards. i am against use of force against innocent people. but this bandh will further alienate hard working decent people like us.
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by engineerarockia on Mar 14, 2007 05:55 PM Permalink
if General Strike is the only way for expressing your problems, then you have to in the home all the years.Who are these political Leaders to stop the common peoples from their duty.If anyone have marriage or any other funtion on that day, what he will do. he has to do marriage without relatives. peoples please think and select the leaders.
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by Biswajit Ghoshal on Mar 14, 2007 06:15 PM Permalink
If TC should not call Bandhs, then CPM too should not call Bandhs. In any Bandh, the daily-laborers would go hungry. But both the parties keep calling Bandhs.
The comparison with Nazi's is because the CPM does whatever it want to do and it uses the Govt at its will. The cadres shows police the houses of the opposition-supporters and police shoot them. Once the police take control, so would the cadres do - and they will beat/kill the opposition. Remember the case of the girl who was raped and killed in Singur. Then take the case of autos. Those are mostly controlled by CITU - which acts as the RTO office. The autos mostly have false regn-no and the drivers are hardly licensed. And police/transport-dept do not do anything to reign upon them.
The people at Nandigram are against the police-action because the police act only on the instruction of the local CPM leaders - and not on complaints.
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by Biswajit Ghoshal on Mar 14, 2007 06:24 PM Permalink
Dear engineer... - it seems you do not know the real matter. The farmers are not so well off that they can fight long court battels with the Govt. As soon as their land is taken away they will have to find alternate source of livelihood. Also in most of the cases farmers have not been provided with alternatives in terms of land/money. That's why they fought the pitched battle with their lives. Govt should have identified unfertile land, instead of fertile land.
RE:WB Strike on Friday
by Greg Chappell on Mar 14, 2007 05:50 PM Permalink
After the independence, there were 1 million bandh happened in West Bengal. It is unfortunate that lots of people died toady in Nandigram. But DON'T SAY BANDH anymore... BANDH will not serve any purpose. It had never served any purpose in the past. The highest number of BANDH happened only in West Bengal in the world. ----- WE DO NOT SUPPORT NEITHER BANDH neither we support the MASS MURDER.
