For all who are defending the police killings in Nandigram yesterday, blaming it on law and order disruption created by the opposition and Naxalites, I need to ask you something.
For all who are students here.... Are you going to let your schools and colleges close if the authorities decide to shut it down to build a factory there? You know that, your only hope for a better future is studying, and you cannot leave it at any cost. They may pay you hefty compensations for your losses but will you stop studying for that?
For all who are working... I assume that you all are specialized in some domain or the other...and you know that the farmer's domain is farming.
Will anyone of you quit your job if you are forced to do so in the name of whatever it may be? You know that what you know is to work in your domain and if you quit, whatever money you may get as compensation, a day'll come when you'll starve.
I am sure the answer will be "NO"...none of us will be willing to sacrifice such things for any reason.
Sacrificing a house for land acquisition is easy since you know that you can build a new one with the money you get as compensation...but sacrificing the farming land is too hard when you know that what you know is only farming.
Will industrialization in any way help these farmers? It may help engineers, skilled labourers and a few other sets of people, but never these poor people (who sweat in the sun and drench in the rain all through the year to grow their crop and then fall into party-politics at the time of harvest, striving hard to sell their reap). If pushed into the factories, they can at most become unskilled labourers, which in no way is going to improve the condition in which they are living now.
Then why is this Industrialisation needed? Is it to improve the condition of the people who are already living a comparitively better life? Is it justified to throw 70% of the population(farmers) into darkness to improve the lives of the remaining 30%?
It's high time we stop thinking of our own selfish benefits and start thinking beyond that. Because, what is happening to those poor people might one day come uopn us. If we don't protest now, it may be too late.
And for those who think that, thinking of farmers will go against industrialization, I can assure you that, unless motivated by other unexplainable reasons, there are host of other ways, and acres of barren and not so fertile land there in West Bengal, which, if utilized optimally, can bring industrialization, svaing the poor farmers' cause too.
RE:For all who are defending the Nandigram killings
by hello on Mar 15, 2007 11:01 PM Permalink
Let us give condolence. I don't want to comment on development in a dead house or funeral house.
RE:For all who are defending the Nandigram killings
by Jurist Jurist on Mar 16, 2007 11:44 AM Permalink
Dear Arya Gupta,
You pls ask your Communist comrades the few quiestions. 1) Why they start a trade union in front of every factory land even before laying the foundation stone? 2) Why they protest all over India except WB (in Kerala no industries)against land allocation to industrial units elsewhere? 3) Why in WB alone they invite foreign Investment but opposing the same elsewere? 4) Why the so called new avtars to save poor M/S karat, Mrs karat, Yechuri, Raja and bardan &Co are keeping mum. 5) If the NANDHIGRAM incident is not a State sponsered Genocide then by what name it can be called?
RE:For all who are defending the Nandigram killings
by sree on Mar 16, 2007 07:10 AM Permalink
Arya Gupta, As you pointed out yourself so brilliantly, a house can be easily given up because you can get another one.
Then by hte same logic, you can go to another school if the givt takes over yours. And I sure as hell can get another job at another company if the govt takes over my current company.
In fact, each of the above cases constitutes a windfall in financial terms.
Both the examples you give above - students and working people - boomerang on you. Comparison is a science.. do it properly or not at all.
RE:RE:For all who are defending the Nandigram killings
by abby Das on Mar 17, 2007 04:26 PM Permalink
Dear Gupta Ji. You can go to another school,another hosue,another job only when there is no "Secret Trade" done between the Govt and the industrialists.When they "Have "Trade Secrets or Secret Trades" done with the industrialists,people can only go to "Hell" as said by Mr Binoy Kongar.The party justified his statements and showed that how right he was.
RE:RE:RE:For all who are defending the Nandigram killings
by devdatto on Mar 20, 2007 12:56 PM Permalink
Hi, can u plz elaborate on the "secret trade" if it really happened then plz elaborate or is it like "scientific rigging" that mamata bannerjee says after every election in west bengal
RE:For all who are defending the Nandigram killings
by abby Das on Mar 23, 2007 05:35 PM Permalink
well,It was said by My Nirupom Sen.He said that there has been a "Trade Secret" between the Tatats and the Govt and that is the reason they cannot dissclose the deal made with the tatas.He indirectly said that there has been a "Secret Trade" done and they do not want to disclose that.So it is better if this question is answered by Mr Nirupom Sen.
RE:For all who are defending the Nandigram killings
by abby Das on Aug 14, 2007 05:05 PM Permalink
Devdatto After the Haldia election you must have understood what "Scientific rigging" is.Few of the EVM showed much lesser votes in total but when the total votes received by the candidates were added up then it showed a much high figure.How is this possible?((This was covered by a lot of channels and newspapers).Without tampering the machine software this is not possible.Mamata was intelligent enough to understand what "Scientific rigging" was even before these reporters did understand.Its a pity that you still down't understand.
