PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2006 ID-2588
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~It is the Poor and CPI(M}'s Own Erstwhile Su pporters Who Are on the 12.04.0i ~Warpath Against the Rightist Policies of the CPI(M) Govt in West Bengal ;,.. "Saali, Jomi rakhbi?Jomi debi na? 11 -11 8itch, you'll keep your land,will you? Won't give it up?11 -CPI(M} goons and policemen as they beat .
up and raped the women at Nandigram (as recounted by Prof. Tanika Sarkar in a public meeting on campus on 10April) .
;,.. "CPt(M) cadres keep threatening us-'Either come overto our side andjoin the CPI(M) camp. orwe'll cut you to p1eces' We know we'll all die,but .
wed racher d1e than gtve up our land."-Villagers of Nandigram to Prof. Tanika Sarkar .
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;,.. ''The re1gn of terror ts far from over tn Nand1gram ...women begged us to stay w1th lhem, since there is bombing on their huts by the CPI(M) supporters .
every night... .
;,.. One woman lying on her stomach in hospital keeps weepmg, recalling how achild who sheltered in her palluwas snatched away and rut tnto p1eces .
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before her eyes.Another woman lies with her buttocks hanging from her body, chopped off by a sword Hundreds of people have senous tnJunes lo their eyes, some have lost sightpermanently,due to the tear gas.Normal tear gas does not cause such long-1asijng stght damage, so doctors suspect thatsome other chemical substance was used.... .
;,.. We have never seen avillage so denuded ofchildren... people keep recounting tmages of children be1ng drowned in ponds or beaten like dothes upon .
th~ ground... we can only hope it's acollective hallucination and that the children will all be found, but we fear that tt may really be true. .
r People saw trucks from which limbs were dangltng, betng taken away .. no one knows what happened to those bodies .
.
. .
,. There 1s as yet no offictal notice to the effect that the SEZ 1s to be shifted away from Nandigram, only the verbal assurance of the Ch1ef Mtmster ..Not .
astngle CPI{M) leader who claim we are wrong about the realtty of Nandigram has bothered to visit a single tOJUred person tn Nandigram There IS .
no compensation betng offered.... .
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,. The CBI enqutry also seems to have been suppressed: we may never really know the whole truth about what happened on March 14 .
,. ll IS true that some CPI{M) people were chased out of the v1tlage by the villagers who were resistmg land grab..but there can be no companson .
between the nature of·violence' on both sides. On the one hand was aresistance ofpoor peasants,on the other was the might of the state ruthlessly .
terronsing people to re-establish CPI(M} control over thearea..." -excerpts from Prof. Tanika Sarkar's account ofher visit to Nandigram, .
in apublic meeting on 10 April. .
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What a Joke: The Killers of Nandigram are Posing as 'Apostles' of 'Non-Violence'! .
In tis leaflet of 10 April, SFI has tried to allege that 'Naxal' students vandaltsed Jadavpur University in an attempt to turn the Universtty into a Free Zone .
like Nandigram'. .
All those familiar with West Bengal know the truth : that SFI rout inely does not allow elections to be held in most lesser .
.
known colleges. But in prestigious institutes where they cannot avoid a contest because of the public gaze, they .
indulge in violent retaliation whenever defeated in elections. Be it Jadavpur or Prestdency College, this is the story EVERY year .
Students belonging to "We The Independent" (WTI), who won the elections in Jadavpur University's science faculty, tell the facts. that their victory .
march was attacked by the members of Karmachari San sad and two teachers, namely Prof Deepak Kesh of Mathematics department and ProfArghya .
Deb of Physics department Among the inJured students who were admrtted in MR Bangur hospital were Surajrt Sarkar, Someswar Chandra, Sourav .
.
Guha, Sourav Mitra, Suman Mazumdar and Proto Banerjee The March wns attacked when 1t reached the Scrence Club, near the eflgtneenng faculty .
canteen and adjacent to the office of the JU Karmachari Samsad, the union of non-teachmg employees loyal to the CPM. This 1s the same Science Club .
which SFI claims was vandalised and destroyed by 'Naxals'! .
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Proloy Kumar Saha, a WTIIeader and outgoing general secretary of the Sc1ence Facuity Students' Union sa1d ·rhey k1cked and punched us and also .
assaulted us w1lh iron rods, sticks and bricks" . ·seven students. mcludmg myself. were lfiJUred Someshwar Chandra fractured h1s hand and Surapt .
Sarkar sustained a neck injury. Among the others inJured are Sourav Guha. Proto Banerjee, Sourav Mtlra and Suman Majumdar· .
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Why is SFI comparing Jadavpur to Nandigram ? .
SF l'sagenda is clear: in the name of Jadavpur, they are actually try1ng to distort the reality of Nandigram-and propagate the lie that CPI(M) people are .
lhe real vict1ms in Nandigram which has been turned into a'Free Zone' by Naxc:ls! .
What SFI is refusing to answer Is: how come the 'Naxals ' and 'Opposition' suddenly managed to storm so many CPI(M) bast1ons-from .
.
North Bengal tea gardens to Singur to Nand/gram? How come workers rose up to defy CPI(M) diktats from Hind Motors to Haldia .
Petrochemicals? How come students refuse to digest SF/'s lies-from JNU to Jadavpur? .
The truth is -CPI(M) is squarely failing to convince its own mass base of its by now naked nee-liberal agenda. Having failed in its .
project of ensuring quiet takeover by Salems and Tatas, CPI(M) has turned the guns on its 0 WN people, branding them 'anarchic'. .
.
CPI(M) keeps talking of the fate of its supporters "chased out" of Nandigram. What does the CPI(M) represent to the people of Nandigram-are .
they not seen as agents of corporate land grab? Isn't it natural for people under threat of losing hearth and home, to resist such .
eviction by opposing those acting as agents of corporates? Isn't this the legacy of Left movements and peasant movements, whlch people who .
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used to be CPI(M)'s own mass base are upholding with their resistance in the fields. factories and streets? .
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Those in CPI(M)'s .. relief camps" are being used as a showcase item by the leadership dancing to the dictates of corporates, to hide CPI(M)'s own offensive against the poor peasantry of Nandigram. Such politics of pitting one section of the poor aga1nst the other 1s reprehenstble .
The angu1sh of CPI(M)'s former supporters at CPI(M)'s betrayal was best vo1ced in the public meettng of 10 Apnl by Tanika Sarkar and Praful Bidwai who dc::clared the present Sttuation to be the greatest crisis in the Left movement of independent India, where a Govt.whlle calling itself 'Left' is pumping bullets on the poor peasants, worker and students to facilitate corporate land grabl Will the SFI respond with hum11tty and senous rntr.ospection-or with ugly arrogance and brute force? Unfortunately, be it Jadavpur or JNU, the SFI seems to be choosmg the latter. .
Isolate the Defenders of Corporate Land Grab and Corporate-Dic1ated Killings! .
sd/-Awadhesh, President, AISA, JNU sd/-Mobeen Alam,Vice-PCI)r~..i .
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PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2006 ID-2588
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~It is the Poor and CPI(M}'s Own Erstwhile Su pporters Who Are on the 12.04.0i ~Warpath Against the Rightist Policies of the CPI(M) Govt in West Bengal ;,.. "Saali, Jomi rakhbi?Jomi debi na? 11 -11 8itch, you'll keep your land,will you? Won't give it up?11 -CPI(M} goons and policemen as they beat .
up and raped the women at Nandigram (as recounted by Prof. Tanika Sarkar in a public meeting on campus on 10April) .
;,.. "CPt(M) cadres keep threatening us-'Either come overto our side andjoin the CPI(M) camp. orwe'll cut you to p1eces' We know we'll all die,but .
wed racher d1e than gtve up our land."-Villagers of Nandigram to Prof. Tanika Sarkar .
.
;,.. ''The re1gn of terror ts far from over tn Nand1gram ...women begged us to stay w1th lhem, since there is bombing on their huts by the CPI(M) supporters .
every night... .
;,.. One woman lying on her stomach in hospital keeps weepmg, recalling how achild who sheltered in her palluwas snatched away and rut tnto p1eces .
.
before her eyes.Another woman lies with her buttocks hanging from her body, chopped off by a sword Hundreds of people have senous tnJunes lo their eyes, some have lost sightpermanently,due to the tear gas.Normal tear gas does not cause such long-1asijng stght damage, so doctors suspect thatsome other chemical substance was used.... .
;,.. We have never seen avillage so denuded ofchildren... people keep recounting tmages of children be1ng drowned in ponds or beaten like dothes upon .
th~ ground... we can only hope it's acollective hallucination and that the children will all be found, but we fear that tt may really be true. .
r People saw trucks from which limbs were dangltng, betng taken away .. no one knows what happened to those bodies .
.
. .
,. There 1s as yet no offictal notice to the effect that the SEZ 1s to be shifted away from Nandigram, only the verbal assurance of the Ch1ef Mtmster ..Not .
astngle CPI{M) leader who claim we are wrong about the realtty of Nandigram has bothered to visit a single tOJUred person tn Nandigram There IS .
no compensation betng offered.... .
.
,. The CBI enqutry also seems to have been suppressed: we may never really know the whole truth about what happened on March 14 .
,. ll IS true that some CPI{M) people were chased out of the v1tlage by the villagers who were resistmg land grab..but there can be no companson .
between the nature of·violence' on both sides. On the one hand was aresistance ofpoor peasants,on the other was the might of the state ruthlessly .
terronsing people to re-establish CPI(M} control over thearea..." -excerpts from Prof. Tanika Sarkar's account ofher visit to Nandigram, .
in apublic meeting on 10 April. .
.
What a Joke: The Killers of Nandigram are Posing as 'Apostles' of 'Non-Violence'! .
In tis leaflet of 10 April, SFI has tried to allege that 'Naxal' students vandaltsed Jadavpur University in an attempt to turn the Universtty into a Free Zone .
like Nandigram'. .
All those familiar with West Bengal know the truth : that SFI rout inely does not allow elections to be held in most lesser .
.
known colleges. But in prestigious institutes where they cannot avoid a contest because of the public gaze, they .
indulge in violent retaliation whenever defeated in elections. Be it Jadavpur or Prestdency College, this is the story EVERY year .
Students belonging to "We The Independent" (WTI), who won the elections in Jadavpur University's science faculty, tell the facts. that their victory .
march was attacked by the members of Karmachari San sad and two teachers, namely Prof Deepak Kesh of Mathematics department and ProfArghya .
Deb of Physics department Among the inJured students who were admrtted in MR Bangur hospital were Surajrt Sarkar, Someswar Chandra, Sourav .
.
Guha, Sourav Mitra, Suman Mazumdar and Proto Banerjee The March wns attacked when 1t reached the Scrence Club, near the eflgtneenng faculty .
canteen and adjacent to the office of the JU Karmachari Samsad, the union of non-teachmg employees loyal to the CPM. This 1s the same Science Club .
which SFI claims was vandalised and destroyed by 'Naxals'! .
.
Proloy Kumar Saha, a WTIIeader and outgoing general secretary of the Sc1ence Facuity Students' Union sa1d ·rhey k1cked and punched us and also .
assaulted us w1lh iron rods, sticks and bricks" . ·seven students. mcludmg myself. were lfiJUred Someshwar Chandra fractured h1s hand and Surapt .
Sarkar sustained a neck injury. Among the others inJured are Sourav Guha. Proto Banerjee, Sourav Mtlra and Suman Majumdar· .
.
Why is SFI comparing Jadavpur to Nandigram ? .
SF l'sagenda is clear: in the name of Jadavpur, they are actually try1ng to distort the reality of Nandigram-and propagate the lie that CPI(M) people are .
lhe real vict1ms in Nandigram which has been turned into a'Free Zone' by Naxc:ls! .
What SFI is refusing to answer Is: how come the 'Naxals ' and 'Opposition' suddenly managed to storm so many CPI(M) bast1ons-from .
.
North Bengal tea gardens to Singur to Nand/gram? How come workers rose up to defy CPI(M) diktats from Hind Motors to Haldia .
Petrochemicals? How come students refuse to digest SF/'s lies-from JNU to Jadavpur? .
The truth is -CPI(M) is squarely failing to convince its own mass base of its by now naked nee-liberal agenda. Having failed in its .
project of ensuring quiet takeover by Salems and Tatas, CPI(M) has turned the guns on its 0 WN people, branding them 'anarchic'. .
.
CPI(M) keeps talking of the fate of its supporters "chased out" of Nandigram. What does the CPI(M) represent to the people of Nandigram-are .
they not seen as agents of corporate land grab? Isn't it natural for people under threat of losing hearth and home, to resist such .
eviction by opposing those acting as agents of corporates? Isn't this the legacy of Left movements and peasant movements, whlch people who .
.
p.
used to be CPI(M)'s own mass base are upholding with their resistance in the fields. factories and streets? .
\.
Those in CPI(M)'s .. relief camps" are being used as a showcase item by the leadership dancing to the dictates of corporates, to hide CPI(M)'s own offensive against the poor peasantry of Nandigram. Such politics of pitting one section of the poor aga1nst the other 1s reprehenstble .
The angu1sh of CPI(M)'s former supporters at CPI(M)'s betrayal was best vo1ced in the public meettng of 10 Apnl by Tanika Sarkar and Praful Bidwai who dc::clared the present Sttuation to be the greatest crisis in the Left movement of independent India, where a Govt.whlle calling itself 'Left' is pumping bullets on the poor peasants, worker and students to facilitate corporate land grabl Will the SFI respond with hum11tty and senous rntr.ospection-or with ugly arrogance and brute force? Unfortunately, be it Jadavpur or JNU, the SFI seems to be choosmg the latter. .
Isolate the Defenders of Corporate Land Grab and Corporate-Dic1ated Killings! .
sd/-Awadhesh, President, AISA, JNU sd/-Mobeen Alam,Vice-PCI)r~..i .
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