She has alleged that US officials held an unprecedented meeting with a leader involved in the mobilisation of the minority community in Nandigram.
NEW DELHI: The CPI(M), which so far has alleged involvement of a host of parties and organisations, including Maoists, the Jamait-e-Ulema-Hind and the Opposition in the Nandigram carnage, has now added a new dimension to the March 14 episode altogether. The party is now alleging the US hand in the flare-up.
Politburo member Brinda Karat has alleged that US officials in India held an unprecedented meeting with a leader involved in the mobilisation of the minority community in Nandigram.
“The effort is to demoralise the party and villify it, to isolate it and thus weaken the only credible opposition to the exploitative policies of the ruling classes,” she said.
Writing a 4,200-word article in party mouthpiece People’s Democracy, Karat, inter alia, said: “The categorical position the CPI(M) has taken against the strategic partnership with the US being pushed by the Indian ruling classes and a section of the establishment, is reason enough for these interests to lend their support to the anti-CPI(M) platforms.”
David Kennedy, US embassy spokesperson in Delhi, however, refused to comment. Rubbishing the allegation, embassy sources said: “The US had no problem with the Left Front government in West Bengal. We have a consul in Kolkata and we have cordial ties with the government and its ministers. We have met the chief minister and other ministers as well.”
Karat said the implications of the current campaign against the party are not limited to Bengal alone. In the present national political situation, the CPI(M) has been playing a crucial role in defence of the interests of the working classes and the rural poor putting forward a set of alternative policies. “It’s a straight political battle, and has nothing to do with bhumi ucched (land displacement) but for CPI(M) ucched (uproot),” Karat said.
“This stand has received wide recognition and has caused much consternation to the neo-liberalisers,” she said adding, “the BJP knows that the CPI(M) is a big hindrance in what it considers its comeback trail which is why even though it does not have a single MLA in Bengal, it has focused its national campaign against the CPI(M).”
Tracing the events which led to the March 14 carnage, Karat made a scathing attack on activist Medha Patkar, NGOs, Maoists, CPI(ML), BJP, Trinamool Congress and ‘a union minister’ for their involvement in stoking the Nandigram fire.
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