During long 30 years of uninterrupted rule by the left front Government in West Bengal, thousands of industrial units have closed down mainly due to militant trade unionism. One can see cluster of multi-storied buildings on the land of such erstwhile factories in Kolkata and its suburbs which have come up as a result of collaboration the ruling party mainly CPI(M) enjoys with the promoters. Now the State Government is acquiring rather trying to snatch land from the poor peasants in an arbitrary manner and if anybody refuses to give up force is being applied to evict them with the help of Police and cadres. Though industrialisation is a must particularly for creating jobs for lacs of unemployed, it should not be at the cost of poor farmers. There is no justification in comparing the Nandigram massacre with that of Godhra as the incident has occured in a State which till recently boasted to be the most peaceful province in the country.
RE:Nandigram
by pradeep kumar on Mar 19, 2007 06:25 PM Permalink
Right said Narayan.Once the second Industrilized state of India is desparate to re industrilized it.
