Unfazed by the killing of innocent villagers in Nandigram on Wednesday, the CPI(M) accused the Trinamool, Maoists and the Congress for doctoring the incident.
NEW DELHI: Unfazed by the killing of innocent villagers in the police firing in Nandigram on Wednesday, the CPI(M) accused the Trinamool Congress, Maoists and the Congress for doctoring the incident.
“It’s a straight-forward political battle and it has nothing to do with land acquisition or SEZ. The challenge will be met with politically,” said CPI(M) politburo member and Rajya Sabha MP Sitaram Yechury.
He slammed the Trinamool Congress and the Congress saying that both the parties have made it a kind of political rationale to stall industrial growth in the state as long as the CPI(M) is in power.
“We are witness to such things in West Bengal for quite some time now. Some years back, Keshpore and Midnapore had also witnessed similar violence. They were instigated by the TMC and there has been a rerun of the same in Nandigram as well.” The CPI(M) leader, however, ruled out the possibility of potential industrialists retreating from West Bengal especially after such frequent spasms of violence. “Capitalists do not come just because they like your face. West Bengal is one of the fastest growing rural economies. That perception will not change because of any stray incident like this,” he said.
Yechury also dispelled doubts over the state suffering owing to “so called Red terror and militant trade unionism,” saying that man days are mainly lost due to management lockouts and not because of strikes by the trade unions.
He said the violence was all the more condemnable as the Left government had already made it clear that there would be no land acquisition for the proposed chemical hub in Nandigram without the consent of the locals. Armed gangs, mostly outsiders, are moving about freely in the area and nearly 3,000 locals have been “driven out of their dwellings” and are forced to live in make-shift camps since January, he said.
“As these criminals faced stiff resistance while trying to enlist local support, they indulged in violence and cut-off the leg of one person on Tuesday. That’s how the violence began,” Yechury said.
Observing that the proposed Nandigram project was a Central decision, the CPI(M) leader said: “The Centre has been informed its locational decision will have to be in consonance with that of the state’s policy of taking consent of locals before any land acquisition.”
Asked if this could imply a change in the location of the Nandigram project, Yechury said: “There’ll be some alterations... We’ll not impose land acquisition.”
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