According to a senior political analyst, the intelligence and police should have been kept on high alert after the January 3 clash.
KOLKATA: Political analysts feel that the Sunday violence was a result of sheer failure of police intelligence. According to a senior political analyst, the intelligence and police should have been kept on high alert immediately after the January 3 clash, when it was clear that outsiders provoked villagers to attack state government officials who were there to work out the parameters of declaring Nandigram a clean village.
“The police would have been on high alert since that time since immediately after that clash villagers started destroying culverts, bridges and roads to stop the police from entering Nandigram. On January 4, 2005, there was also an armed procession at Nandigram. Probably, the state government was in favour of restraining police to avoid any major clash. But the fact remains that they could not avoid it. It is surprising that the police did not have information about the accumulation of arms at Nandigram during the last couple of days,” he said.
Meanwhile, the state chief minister, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, has said that the opposition parties in West Bengal are in a competition of calling bandhs. “I have called them to come to the discussion table again and again. But they prefer to take such violent and disruptive steps rather than coming for discussion. But the people of West Bengal want the overall development of the state and they will never forgive the opposition leaders for such an irresponsible behaviour,” Bhattacharjee said.
The CPI(M) state secretary and the Left Front chairman in West Bengal, Biman Bose, said here on Sunday that such disruptive actions would only hamper the development process in the state. “The villagers there should understand that breaking culverts and bridges will only cause problems for them in case of any emergency. I once again appeal to the opposition leaders to come for a discussion with the state government,” Bose said.
State transport minister, Subhash Chakraborty assured that transport system would be normal on Monday. “Additional buses would be there on roads on Monday,” he said. The state information technology minister, Debesh Das, said that all kinds of administrative assistance would be provided to the state’s IT sector to keep the show running.
Meanwhile, the panel of doctors examining Trinamool leader, Mamata Banerjee, issued a statement saying that she would be released from the nursing home within the next 48 hours. The panel head, Dr Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar said, “Although her condition is yet to become stable, but she insists being released considering the recent developments at Nandigram,” he said.
Political analysts fear further boiling up of the scene after her release. According to them, it is unlikely that Mamta would keep herself locked in her home after the release. “She would make an attempt to go to Nandigram, which might lead into violence,” a senior political analyst said.
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