For all who are defending the police killings in Nandigram yesterday holding the law and order disruption created by opposition and Naxalites responsible, 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? They'll pay you hefty compensation money for the losses.
For all who are working...I assume that you all are specialized in some domain or the other like the farmer's domain is farming. Will you quit you 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 an sure the answer is 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 but never these poor people (who sweat in the sun and drench in the rain all through the year to build their crops and then fall into party-politics at the time of harvest, striving hard to sell their reap).
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.
P.S: For those who think that thinking of farmers will go against industrialization, I can assure you that, unless motivated by ohter fishy reasons, there are host of other ways and acres of barren land there in West Bengal, which if utilized optimally, can bring industrialization, svaing the poor farmers cause too.
RE:For all who are justifying Nandigram killings!
by nilesh on Mar 15, 2007 03:45 PM Permalink
we are all quilty, we should kill the greed in ourselves first
