PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2006 ID-2747
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, When People Unitedly Protest Against Corporate Land Grab, .
·CPI(M)'s Trick is to Play the Communal Cordi .
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In Nandigram, since most of the protesting fanners happen to be Muslims, CPI(M) chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya rushed to allege that the protests are being fanned by the communal Jamaat-e·Uiema-1-Hind. Nothing .
' can be more dangerous than such communal stereotyping.Ciearty, CPI(M) -SFI tried to Invoke lslamophobia to whip up deep-seated majoritarian anti-Muslim prejudices to delegitimise the farmers' struggle and prevent people from feeling sympathy with the protestors.lt is really a shame that a self declared leftist party is now resorting-to "this oft repeated heinous communal tactic of Indian ruling class. .
SFI accuses AJSA of equating CPI(M) and BJP. Well, not only AISA but even CPI(M)'s sympathlsers like Prof. Sumit Sarbr and former CPI(M) Finance Minister of West BengaiAshok Mitra are highly disappointed to find CPI(M) speaking BJP's language, branding protestors as 'outsiders', branding Muslim peasants in Nandigram as 'communar and even providing the coconut and pujarl for a 'bhooml puja' ritual by Tata at Singur (see Ashok Mitra's article on Bhooml Puja in Telegraph, 2Feb.07). Jhese observers are disappointed and shocked at CPI(M) borrowing from saffron-speak, precisely because they do not equate it with BJP and expect it to stand by secular norms! .
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'Repression is Democracy' .
'The workofthe police is not to make drawings or .
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teach in schools and coUeges. Tbc police are the instrument ofrepression. Itis for the government to dedde whom they shaU repress. .
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Some forces are trying to indulge in violence and create disorder for lowly and narrow political interest and bring ruination to West Bengal. It is democracy to repress t.laese foa a:s in the interests and security of die people oftile state."-Benoy Konar, CPI(M) Kisan Sabha leader, People's Democracy, JODec. .
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"Human rights are only for citizens... police must be merciless in dealing with ultras" -Buddhadeb addressing a gathering on World Human Rights Day .
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(JODec. 06) .
'When Medba Patk.ar visits here next, we'll ask ·our women cadres to show her their backsides'-CPI(M) Central Committee Member Benoy Konar. .
(See Anandabazar Patrika, 3fJJan07) .
In thisseason, many snakes come out of their holes; you must take the Oag (jhanda) offfrom the sticks (dandD) and use the sticks to crush the snakes' beads. -CPI(M) Central Committee Member Suryak.anta Misbra, referring to the protestors at Singur and Nandigram .
(See Anandabazar Patrilca, 30Jan 07) .
"'Central Committee member Benoy Konar, asked about Profs. Swnit and Tanika Sarkar's visit to Singur and Nandigram: "I can't do anything if the historians decide to go back in time.....Their views are anti-industry" -Indian Express, 31 Jan 07 .
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Those Who Refuse To Be Co\ved Do\vn By Terror .
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Noted Historian Sumit Sarkar, after his visit to Singur wrote .
( A Question Marked In Redin Indian Express, 9Jan. 07) .
"..there is no doubt that the vast bulk of the villagers we met are opposed to the take-over of land and most are refusing compensation. .
. .. Three, we found much evidence of force being employed, .
particularly on the nights of September 25 and December 2." .
"...What the villagers repeatedly alleged was that along witb the police, and it seems more than tbe police, party activists, whom the villagers call 'cadres' -which has sadly become a term of abuse-did the major part of the beating up." .
A report by the West Bengal Govt. Home Ministry itself admits .
that what happened at Nandigram was the result of CPI(M) peasant supporters themselves going against the party because of the land grab. So the protestors were not just 'insiders' to Nandigram, they were also 'insiders' to CPl(M) itself till recently!(Anandabazar Patrika, 2 Feb. 07) .
It is a peasants' movement in West Beo2:al : Citizens'Panel .
"The State Govt. alleged that there was a communal overtone to the struggle ofthe people but we found remarkable communal unity on the ground and that people's protests cut across political differences." .
"We found the people's fury was genuine. It was partly due to lack of transparency. They were not part of any discussion about matters that concerned their lives and livelihood. Singur villagers learnt ofthe land acquisittOn for the Tata factory from newspapers. They claim that holders of 360 acres have refused to accept cash compensation. There is no land for tand rehabilitation, only cash compensation and that too much below the actual price"( Hindu, 04Feb.07) .
Decide which side you are on... The side of truth or the side of terror! .
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The 'debate' is not a petty quarrel between AISA and SFI. It is a question of taking sides .
in the raging battle between evicted peasants and terrorised poor struggling for survival on .
one side, and corporates grabbing land backed by the might of State on the other. It is a .
battle between the rights of aam aadmi and 'special' 'foreign' enclaves of preferred people .
on the other. .
SFI and CPI(M) have shown that they stand for the privileges and profit ofcorporatcs, not the struggles of the .
poor. SFI already sho,ved this in it~ defence ofthe Nestle Outlet in JNU -and once again they are conducting a .
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similar shameless campaign. .
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SCRAP SEZ I ~ut:u~&.ut:u r-t:upn: :t ~~~u~~n: rur L.ana, a.1vennooa, Rights and Dignity I .
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PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2006 ID-2747
.
, When People Unitedly Protest Against Corporate Land Grab, .
·CPI(M)'s Trick is to Play the Communal Cordi .
.
In Nandigram, since most of the protesting fanners happen to be Muslims, CPI(M) chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya rushed to allege that the protests are being fanned by the communal Jamaat-e·Uiema-1-Hind. Nothing .
' can be more dangerous than such communal stereotyping.Ciearty, CPI(M) -SFI tried to Invoke lslamophobia to whip up deep-seated majoritarian anti-Muslim prejudices to delegitimise the farmers' struggle and prevent people from feeling sympathy with the protestors.lt is really a shame that a self declared leftist party is now resorting-to "this oft repeated heinous communal tactic of Indian ruling class. .
SFI accuses AJSA of equating CPI(M) and BJP. Well, not only AISA but even CPI(M)'s sympathlsers like Prof. Sumit Sarbr and former CPI(M) Finance Minister of West BengaiAshok Mitra are highly disappointed to find CPI(M) speaking BJP's language, branding protestors as 'outsiders', branding Muslim peasants in Nandigram as 'communar and even providing the coconut and pujarl for a 'bhooml puja' ritual by Tata at Singur (see Ashok Mitra's article on Bhooml Puja in Telegraph, 2Feb.07). Jhese observers are disappointed and shocked at CPI(M) borrowing from saffron-speak, precisely because they do not equate it with BJP and expect it to stand by secular norms! .
.
'Repression is Democracy' .
'The workofthe police is not to make drawings or .
.
teach in schools and coUeges. Tbc police are the instrument ofrepression. Itis for the government to dedde whom they shaU repress. .
.
Some forces are trying to indulge in violence and create disorder for lowly and narrow political interest and bring ruination to West Bengal. It is democracy to repress t.laese foa a:s in the interests and security of die people oftile state."-Benoy Konar, CPI(M) Kisan Sabha leader, People's Democracy, JODec. .
.
.
"Human rights are only for citizens... police must be merciless in dealing with ultras" -Buddhadeb addressing a gathering on World Human Rights Day .
.
.
06 .
(JODec. 06) .
'When Medba Patk.ar visits here next, we'll ask ·our women cadres to show her their backsides'-CPI(M) Central Committee Member Benoy Konar. .
(See Anandabazar Patrika, 3fJJan07) .
In thisseason, many snakes come out of their holes; you must take the Oag (jhanda) offfrom the sticks (dandD) and use the sticks to crush the snakes' beads. -CPI(M) Central Committee Member Suryak.anta Misbra, referring to the protestors at Singur and Nandigram .
(See Anandabazar Patrilca, 30Jan 07) .
"'Central Committee member Benoy Konar, asked about Profs. Swnit and Tanika Sarkar's visit to Singur and Nandigram: "I can't do anything if the historians decide to go back in time.....Their views are anti-industry" -Indian Express, 31 Jan 07 .
.
Those Who Refuse To Be Co\ved Do\vn By Terror .
.
Noted Historian Sumit Sarkar, after his visit to Singur wrote .
( A Question Marked In Redin Indian Express, 9Jan. 07) .
"..there is no doubt that the vast bulk of the villagers we met are opposed to the take-over of land and most are refusing compensation. .
. .. Three, we found much evidence of force being employed, .
particularly on the nights of September 25 and December 2." .
"...What the villagers repeatedly alleged was that along witb the police, and it seems more than tbe police, party activists, whom the villagers call 'cadres' -which has sadly become a term of abuse-did the major part of the beating up." .
A report by the West Bengal Govt. Home Ministry itself admits .
that what happened at Nandigram was the result of CPI(M) peasant supporters themselves going against the party because of the land grab. So the protestors were not just 'insiders' to Nandigram, they were also 'insiders' to CPl(M) itself till recently!(Anandabazar Patrika, 2 Feb. 07) .
It is a peasants' movement in West Beo2:al : Citizens'Panel .
"The State Govt. alleged that there was a communal overtone to the struggle ofthe people but we found remarkable communal unity on the ground and that people's protests cut across political differences." .
"We found the people's fury was genuine. It was partly due to lack of transparency. They were not part of any discussion about matters that concerned their lives and livelihood. Singur villagers learnt ofthe land acquisittOn for the Tata factory from newspapers. They claim that holders of 360 acres have refused to accept cash compensation. There is no land for tand rehabilitation, only cash compensation and that too much below the actual price"( Hindu, 04Feb.07) .
Decide which side you are on... The side of truth or the side of terror! .
.
The 'debate' is not a petty quarrel between AISA and SFI. It is a question of taking sides .
in the raging battle between evicted peasants and terrorised poor struggling for survival on .
one side, and corporates grabbing land backed by the might of State on the other. It is a .
battle between the rights of aam aadmi and 'special' 'foreign' enclaves of preferred people .
on the other. .
SFI and CPI(M) have shown that they stand for the privileges and profit ofcorporatcs, not the struggles of the .
poor. SFI already sho,ved this in it~ defence ofthe Nestle Outlet in JNU -and once again they are conducting a .
.
similar shameless campaign. .
.
~..~~~ ~~~~ ~w.n~~.
SCRAP SEZ I ~ut:u~&.ut:u r-t:upn: :t ~~~u~~n: rur L.ana, a.1vennooa, Rights and Dignity I .
.
.
.
.