Buddhadeb, you are WRONG

At least 14 people were killed in police firing at Nandigram in east Midnapore of West Bengal on March 14, 2007 as the administration moved in to take charge of an area that had virtually been marooned since January 7 2007. But the local sources said that more than 160 are killed by police. 200 peoples are missing yet. Womens are raped by police and dead bodies are throne in river. The jounalists have no permission to visit Nadigam.

The trouble started with the government’s decision to allow the Salim group of Indonesia to develop a special economic zone (SEZ) at Nandigram. This would require the acquisition of over 14,000 acres of land. The special economic zone would be spread over 29 mouzas (villages) of which 27 are in Nandigram. Most of the land to be acquired is multi crop and would affect over 40,000 people. The Salim Group in fact had sought around 35,000 acres of land for a series of ambitious projects.

The ruling coalition in West Bengal is headed by the Marxist Party that always claimed to be the promoters of the poor and marginalised in the society. Bringing land reforms they initiated drastic changes where-ever they were in power. But that’s all the past. The decline in the party leadership, both in principle and practicc, reflect in snatching the piece of land from the poor farmers in order to promote the interests of the MNCs.

Jananeethi deplores the brultal assault on and the killings of the poor innocent villagers of Nadigram by the state forces of West Bengal.

March 17, 2007.