PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2007 ID-3656
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When People Unitedly Protest Against Corporate Land Grab, .
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CPI(M)'s Trick is to Play the Communal Cordi In Nandigram, since most of the protesting farmers 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-i-Hind. Nothtng ' can be more dangerous than such communal stereotyping.Ciear1y, CPI(M) -SFI tried to invoke lslamophobia to whip up deep-seated majoritarian anti-MusHm prejudices to delegitimlse the fanners' struggle and prevent people from feeling sympathy with the protestors.It is really a shame that a setf declared leftist party is now resorting-to1hts oft repeated Minoos COlTlffiU.MI tactic of lndian ruUng class. SFI accuses AJSA of equaYng CP1{M) and BJP. Welt, not only AISA but even CPI(M)'s sympathlsers lfke Prof. lciiNt iarbr and~CPI(M) Finance MlnJster of West BengaiAshok Mitra are highly dfsappotnted to find ·CAfMt speaklftg SJP's langu.aga, branding pmtestors as 'outsiders', bran~n!J Muslim peasants tn Nandtgram es 'communal' and &Wn provfdklg the coconut and pf#/arl for a 'bhoeml puja' ritual ~y Tata at Stngur (see Ashok Mitra'~ articte on BhoomJ Puja r.n TelegraplJ, 2Feb.Q7).Jhese observers are disappointed and shocked at CPI(M) ,---b.orro-wmg from saffron-speak, precisely because they do natequate It with BJP and expect it to stand by secular norms I CPI(M)'s Ter·ror Speal< .
'Repressron is Democrncy' .
Noted Historian Sumit Sarkar, after his visit to Singur wrote .
'The work ofthe police is not to make drawings or {"A Question Marked In Red in Indian Express, 9 Jan. 07) .
teach in schools and colle.ges. The police are the " ... there is no doubt that the vast bulk of the villagers we instrument ofrepression. It is for the gove.mmeot met are opposed to t.be take-over of land and most arc to d«ide whom tbey shall repress. refusing compensation. .
Some forces are trying to indulge in violence and ...Three, we found much evidence of force being employed, .
create disorder fOr lowly and narrow political interest particularly on the nights of September 25 and December 2." aftd hriAg ntiRatioft to West BeogaJ. It is democracy .
" ... What the villagers repeatedly alleged was that along with .
to repras tite8e fetus 1ft the interests ami security .
the police, and it seems more than the police, party.
Gfdie peofJie oftlte state."-Benoy Kooar, CPI(M) .
activists, whom the villagers call 'cadres' -which bas.
Kisan Sabh.a leader, People's Democracy, ](}Dec. satUy become a term of abuse -did the major part of the.
0' .
beating up.." .
"Human rights are only for citizens... police must .
be merciless in dealing with ultras"-Buddbadeb A report by the West Bengal Govt Home Ministry itself admits addressing agathering on World Human Rights Day that what happened at Nandigram was the r~sult of CPI(M) (IOIJec. 96) peasant supporters themselves going against the party because .
.' When Medba Patk.ar visits here next, we'll ask of the land grab. So the protestors were not just 'insiders' to our woell cadres to sltow her their backsides'_ Nandigram, they were also 'insiders' to CPI(M) itself till CPf(M) CentralCommittee MemberBeo~ooar. recently!(Anandabazar Patrika, 2 Feb. 07) .
~Jan07) ~' ;~;:=-::...t=-=~~~~o..!:v~m~eo~tL!linL!W!.Esi.t.!B~e:!ln~alL_.!,;C:!jit~i~e!!nst''l.P:!!a!!_nef.}_l.
(See Anandabazar Patrika, -<.,.,v-~-: .
ln dlisseeson, maeysoakesoomeoutofth.eirboles; 'The State Govt.. alleged that there was a communal overtone .
you mast mke dM flag (jluuula) offfrom the sticks to the struggle ofthe people but we found remarkable communal (dtmdtr) and 1111e the sticks to crush the snakes' ·ru th d .
um.J on egroun and that people's protests cut across political .
buds. -CPI(M) Central Committee Member differences." Suryakaota Misllra, referring to the protestors at Singur and NaAdi.gram "We found the people's fury was genuine. It was partly due to .
lack of transparency. They were not part of any discussion.
(See Anandabazor Patrika, JCJJan 07) .
a?ut maners that concerned their lives and livelihood. Singur.
"Central Committee member Benoy Konar, asked .
villagers learnt ofthe land acquisitton for the Tata factory from .
about Profs. Sumit and Tanika Sarkar's visit to Singur .
newspapers. They claim that holders of360 acres have refused .
and Nandigram: " I can't do anything if the .
to accept cash compensation. There is no land for 111 nd .
historians decide to go back in time. ....Their views .
rehabilitation, only cashcompensation and that too much below .
are anti-industry" -Indian Express, 31 Jan 07 .
the actual price"( Hindu, 04Feb.07) .
Decide which side you are on... The side of truth or the side of terror! .
!he 'deba~e· is not a petty quarrel between AISA and SFI . It is a question of taking sides '" .th~ rogmg battle between evicted peasants and terrorised poor struggling for survival on obne srde, and corpora:es grabbing land backed by the might of State on the other. It is a attle between the r1ghts of aam aadmi and 'special' 'foreign' enclaves of preferred people on the other. SFI and CPI(M) have show.n ~~t the> stand for the privileges aud profit ofcorporates, not the struggles ofthe povr. SFJ already showed th1s m J!!' drfcn~o.fthe Nestle Outlet in JNU -and once again they are conducting a .
$'f:7-~IT:J::Ir.3~~~~.-;,~"""'s~mllarshameless campaign. .
SCRAP SEZ I Resist Corporate Land Grab .
Nould SH Explain: .
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WHY did its MPs vote to PASS the SEZ Act 2005 in Parliament? .
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Does CPI(M) believe tlaat it is necessary to create 'special' zones of 'FOREIGN TERRITORY' oa Iatlian soil ia order to promote 'iDdastrialilatio'! .
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Does SFI believe tlaat iadutriaiisatl011 is NOT p111iltle witlaet civi-l WI perates a 'special' licease te Evade taxes and ..wt, Evict pauu u4 &nit laiMII, Euleit laiMr! .
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Thus having PASSED the SEZ Act ift Parli1m1Rt; CPI(M}SFI, in the face ofmassive people's protests, is now proposin~ SOAte 'liMe. I lAta' 1hat are nothing btrt eyewash. .
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.
WoukiiR Explain : .
Why are they NOT ready to demand SCRAPPING ofthe SEZ Act, why do they merely demand amendments? Ifyou don't demand scrapping of SEZ Act, you are tk(oullng it! .
SITs Pro-Corporate Saga ...From Nestle in JNU to Nandigram in '\'Vest Bengal SFI brought in the Nestle Outlet in JNU; and when students protested against it, SF! proposed to allow Nestle to stay with some ·restricted" rules. But JNU students refused to accept an MNC Outlet that snatched away the livelihoo~.of those who run dhabas-and kicked Nestle's Outlet off the campus! .
In the same way, CPI(M) MPs in Parliament quietly voted for the shameful SEZ Act. But when farm£rs' protests at Kakinada, DQdri, Navi Mumbai, Singor and ~igramexposed SEZs as a·national shame, a-I(M) started demanding ·GfTlendments" to ·improv£ Sffi on the lines of tM 8engal model. .
SFI claims SEZs are a necessary evil forced upon us by the Coagress-BJP etc, aad aU we ca de is to '..etl' theiR Mightly. But if this is the case, how does SFI explain the fact that the CPI(M) Govemmcftt's 'Doiag Basiaese ia Beagal' brochure distrib!lted amongst industrialists proadly a4vertises tlaat "West ~is oae of tile early States te implement the s~z COIICept..." and tllat West Beagal laas passed its ...... SEZ Act Ia l0ft3 .
itself? Let us call SFI's bluff -Let us take a look at their proposed 'amend~~ats', and compare them -both with the Cetral SEZ Act li8S, aAd with the West Bengal SEZ Act 1003 and the WB Goverameat's "Doing Ruiess" brochure. .
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·I n:a;u~o~ I.
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WEST.BF.NiAL I J .
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j. .
I ;_ . .
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Document Of PRETENSIONS in JNU .
Pumose Of SEZ .
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CPI(Ml-SFI's Proposed "Amendments" : NilCentral SEZ Act 2005 "the promotion of exports CPUM)-SFI's Practicing RealityCPI(M)-Sfl's Proposed "Amendment&" : Nil West Bengal SEZ Act Also deemed to be 'foreign territory'.
CPI(M)-SFI's Practicing Reality Actual Implications.
.
West Bengal SEZ Act's(2003) stated purpose: "to accelerate Declaring corporate enclaves to be 'foreign territory'economic reforms· amounts to an assault on India's sovereignty, and Actual Implications .
people's inalienable rights.This (and the following two CPI(M) claims its amendments will put the brakes on neo-liberal points which are linked to it) is the most dangerous economic reforms, but two years before the Central Act, they aspect of the SEZ Act, which the CPI(M) does not passed their own SEZ Act in Bengal with the self-proclaimed even try to 'amend'. .
purpose to "accelerate reforms·! .
'FonlllTeiTitiiJ' central SEZ Act 2005 : Section 49 empowers the Government to exemptanyoraU SEZs ftom the operation of.
Central SEZ Act 2005 any central law through a notification. Further, Section 48SEZs declared to be 'Foreign Territory' on Indian soil .
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PaRCha - JNU - AISA - 2007 ID-3656
.
When People Unitedly Protest Against Corporate Land Grab, .
f .
CPI(M)'s Trick is to Play the Communal Cordi In Nandigram, since most of the protesting farmers 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-i-Hind. Nothtng ' can be more dangerous than such communal stereotyping.Ciear1y, CPI(M) -SFI tried to invoke lslamophobia to whip up deep-seated majoritarian anti-MusHm prejudices to delegitimlse the fanners' struggle and prevent people from feeling sympathy with the protestors.It is really a shame that a setf declared leftist party is now resorting-to1hts oft repeated Minoos COlTlffiU.MI tactic of lndian ruUng class. SFI accuses AJSA of equaYng CP1{M) and BJP. Welt, not only AISA but even CPI(M)'s sympathlsers lfke Prof. lciiNt iarbr and~CPI(M) Finance MlnJster of West BengaiAshok Mitra are highly dfsappotnted to find ·CAfMt speaklftg SJP's langu.aga, branding pmtestors as 'outsiders', bran~n!J Muslim peasants tn Nandtgram es 'communal' and &Wn provfdklg the coconut and pf#/arl for a 'bhoeml puja' ritual ~y Tata at Stngur (see Ashok Mitra'~ articte on BhoomJ Puja r.n TelegraplJ, 2Feb.Q7).Jhese observers are disappointed and shocked at CPI(M) ,---b.orro-wmg from saffron-speak, precisely because they do natequate It with BJP and expect it to stand by secular norms I CPI(M)'s Ter·ror Speal< .
'Repressron is Democrncy' .
Noted Historian Sumit Sarkar, after his visit to Singur wrote .
'The work ofthe police is not to make drawings or {"A Question Marked In Red in Indian Express, 9 Jan. 07) .
teach in schools and colle.ges. The police are the " ... there is no doubt that the vast bulk of the villagers we instrument ofrepression. It is for the gove.mmeot met are opposed to t.be take-over of land and most arc to d«ide whom tbey shall repress. refusing compensation. .
Some forces are trying to indulge in violence and ...Three, we found much evidence of force being employed, .
create disorder fOr lowly and narrow political interest particularly on the nights of September 25 and December 2." aftd hriAg ntiRatioft to West BeogaJ. It is democracy .
" ... What the villagers repeatedly alleged was that along with .
to repras tite8e fetus 1ft the interests ami security .
the police, and it seems more than the police, party.
Gfdie peofJie oftlte state."-Benoy Kooar, CPI(M) .
activists, whom the villagers call 'cadres' -which bas.
Kisan Sabh.a leader, People's Democracy, ](}Dec. satUy become a term of abuse -did the major part of the.
0' .
beating up.." .
"Human rights are only for citizens... police must .
be merciless in dealing with ultras"-Buddbadeb A report by the West Bengal Govt Home Ministry itself admits addressing agathering on World Human Rights Day that what happened at Nandigram was the r~sult of CPI(M) (IOIJec. 96) peasant supporters themselves going against the party because .
.' When Medba Patk.ar visits here next, we'll ask of the land grab. So the protestors were not just 'insiders' to our woell cadres to sltow her their backsides'_ Nandigram, they were also 'insiders' to CPI(M) itself till CPf(M) CentralCommittee MemberBeo~ooar. recently!(Anandabazar Patrika, 2 Feb. 07) .
~Jan07) ~' ;~;:=-::...t=-=~~~~o..!:v~m~eo~tL!linL!W!.Esi.t.!B~e:!ln~alL_.!,;C:!jit~i~e!!nst''l.P:!!a!!_nef.}_l.
(See Anandabazar Patrika, -<.,.,v-~-: .
ln dlisseeson, maeysoakesoomeoutofth.eirboles; 'The State Govt.. alleged that there was a communal overtone .
you mast mke dM flag (jluuula) offfrom the sticks to the struggle ofthe people but we found remarkable communal (dtmdtr) and 1111e the sticks to crush the snakes' ·ru th d .
um.J on egroun and that people's protests cut across political .
buds. -CPI(M) Central Committee Member differences." Suryakaota Misllra, referring to the protestors at Singur and NaAdi.gram "We found the people's fury was genuine. It was partly due to .
lack of transparency. They were not part of any discussion.
(See Anandabazor Patrika, JCJJan 07) .
a?ut maners that concerned their lives and livelihood. Singur.
"Central Committee member Benoy Konar, asked .
villagers learnt ofthe land acquisitton for the Tata factory from .
about Profs. Sumit and Tanika Sarkar's visit to Singur .
newspapers. They claim that holders of360 acres have refused .
and Nandigram: " I can't do anything if the .
to accept cash compensation. There is no land for 111 nd .
historians decide to go back in time. ....Their views .
rehabilitation, only cashcompensation and that too much below .
are anti-industry" -Indian Express, 31 Jan 07 .
the actual price"( Hindu, 04Feb.07) .
Decide which side you are on... The side of truth or the side of terror! .
!he 'deba~e· is not a petty quarrel between AISA and SFI . It is a question of taking sides '" .th~ rogmg battle between evicted peasants and terrorised poor struggling for survival on obne srde, and corpora:es grabbing land backed by the might of State on the other. It is a attle between the r1ghts of aam aadmi and 'special' 'foreign' enclaves of preferred people on the other. SFI and CPI(M) have show.n ~~t the> stand for the privileges aud profit ofcorporates, not the struggles ofthe povr. SFJ already showed th1s m J!!' drfcn~o.fthe Nestle Outlet in JNU -and once again they are conducting a .
$'f:7-~IT:J::Ir.3~~~~.-;,~"""'s~mllarshameless campaign. .
SCRAP SEZ I Resist Corporate Land Grab .
Nould SH Explain: .
.
WHY did its MPs vote to PASS the SEZ Act 2005 in Parliament? .
.
.
Does CPI(M) believe tlaat it is necessary to create 'special' zones of 'FOREIGN TERRITORY' oa Iatlian soil ia order to promote 'iDdastrialilatio'! .
.
.
Does SFI believe tlaat iadutriaiisatl011 is NOT p111iltle witlaet civi-l WI perates a 'special' licease te Evade taxes and ..wt, Evict pauu u4 &nit laiMII, Euleit laiMr! .
.
.
Thus having PASSED the SEZ Act ift Parli1m1Rt; CPI(M}SFI, in the face ofmassive people's protests, is now proposin~ SOAte 'liMe. I lAta' 1hat are nothing btrt eyewash. .
.
.
WoukiiR Explain : .
Why are they NOT ready to demand SCRAPPING ofthe SEZ Act, why do they merely demand amendments? Ifyou don't demand scrapping of SEZ Act, you are tk(oullng it! .
SITs Pro-Corporate Saga ...From Nestle in JNU to Nandigram in '\'Vest Bengal SFI brought in the Nestle Outlet in JNU; and when students protested against it, SF! proposed to allow Nestle to stay with some ·restricted" rules. But JNU students refused to accept an MNC Outlet that snatched away the livelihoo~.of those who run dhabas-and kicked Nestle's Outlet off the campus! .
In the same way, CPI(M) MPs in Parliament quietly voted for the shameful SEZ Act. But when farm£rs' protests at Kakinada, DQdri, Navi Mumbai, Singor and ~igramexposed SEZs as a·national shame, a-I(M) started demanding ·GfTlendments" to ·improv£ Sffi on the lines of tM 8engal model. .
SFI claims SEZs are a necessary evil forced upon us by the Coagress-BJP etc, aad aU we ca de is to '..etl' theiR Mightly. But if this is the case, how does SFI explain the fact that the CPI(M) Govemmcftt's 'Doiag Basiaese ia Beagal' brochure distrib!lted amongst industrialists proadly a4vertises tlaat "West ~is oae of tile early States te implement the s~z COIICept..." and tllat West Beagal laas passed its ...... SEZ Act Ia l0ft3 .
itself? Let us call SFI's bluff -Let us take a look at their proposed 'amend~~ats', and compare them -both with the Cetral SEZ Act li8S, aAd with the West Bengal SEZ Act 1003 and the WB Goverameat's "Doing Ruiess" brochure. .
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r;-::-:---· ' .._.
~-.ns .
.
--ACT. .
·I n:a;u~o~ I.
r I I ' IN . t .
WEST.BF.NiAL I J .
.
.,.. .
. . }.
j. .
I ;_ . .
.
Document Of PRETENSIONS in JNU .
Pumose Of SEZ .
.
CPI(Ml-SFI's Proposed "Amendments" : NilCentral SEZ Act 2005 "the promotion of exports CPUM)-SFI's Practicing RealityCPI(M)-Sfl's Proposed "Amendment&" : Nil West Bengal SEZ Act Also deemed to be 'foreign territory'.
CPI(M)-SFI's Practicing Reality Actual Implications.
.
West Bengal SEZ Act's(2003) stated purpose: "to accelerate Declaring corporate enclaves to be 'foreign territory'economic reforms· amounts to an assault on India's sovereignty, and Actual Implications .
people's inalienable rights.This (and the following two CPI(M) claims its amendments will put the brakes on neo-liberal points which are linked to it) is the most dangerous economic reforms, but two years before the Central Act, they aspect of the SEZ Act, which the CPI(M) does not passed their own SEZ Act in Bengal with the self-proclaimed even try to 'amend'. .
purpose to "accelerate reforms·! .
'FonlllTeiTitiiJ' central SEZ Act 2005 : Section 49 empowers the Government to exemptanyoraU SEZs ftom the operation of.
Central SEZ Act 2005 any central law through a notification. Further, Section 48SEZs declared to be 'Foreign Territory' on Indian soil .
.
.
.
.
.