Indian Holocaust My father`s Life and Time- One Hundred Thirty EIGHT
Palash Biswas
Trouble time it is! It is resistance time , friends!
CPIM politbureau justifies Buddhadev stance on Capitalist Development. Sonia and buddha hold meeting in Delhi and Yechury was present. Neoliberalism is a concept coined by no one else but the Indian Prime Minister , a world bank Slave! Why do the Congress leaders bark so often for Dalits, OBC, Muslims, Peasants and so on?
Mamata accuses very rightly,“ The PM has criticised Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi for his comments on the police action in Nandigram and for visiting those injured in the police firing in hospital. But he did not condemn the action of the chief minister! ”
The Ruling Class as a consolidated UNIT is up against Rural India! Realise, friends!
Left is determined to evict Rural people! CPI(M) says 'problems' in Left Front resolved .After the police firing at Nandigram, the question uppermost in everyone's minds is whether 'Brand Buddha' or the industrialisation drive in West Bengal would take a serious beating. But politicians and industrialists feel that it would not send a wrong signal to prospective investors heading for the state. Some, however, feel that the Nandigram incident might slow down the pace of industrialisation by the Buddhadeb government for some time.
Buddhdev faced the heat of Left sympathisers` protest in Delhi today. Delhi University Teachers` association and students joined demontrations led by Naxalites! Have not you seen the live show on TV? Sunil Gango and Band of Nandan Campus plus Anand Publishers Artists and writers are not enough to save the criminals of Nandigram from the worldwide Rage!
Amidst the controversy over the Nandigram issue, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has met UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi.He urged the Centre to frame a comprehensive policy on SEZs.Bhattacharjee was accompanied by CPI-M politbureau member Sitaram Yechury during his 30-minute meeting with Gandhi in New Delhi on Saturday. On the other hand, CPI (M) has questioned the authority of the Calcutta High Court to order a suo moto CBI inquiry into the Nandigram police firing. The party's state committee met in Kolkata on Saturday to deliberate on the issue and, at the end of it, issued a press release describing the court order as extraordinary. Trinamool Congress Chief Mamata Banerjee has accused Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of helping the West Bengal government on the Nandigram issue.The Centre, she said, could not remain silent on the situation and avoid its responsibilities, especially when women, children and minorities were attacked during the police firing in Nandigram on March 14.
Banerjee said discussions on the Nandigram issue were not allowed in Parliament or the state assembly.
India Is Colonising Itself
Arundhati Roy & Shoma Chaudhuri ~ You don’t have to be a genius to read the signs. We have a growing middle class, being reared on a diet of radical consumerism and aggressive greed. Unlike industrializing western countries which had colonies from which to plunder resources and generate slave labour to feed this process, we have to colonize ourselves, our own nether parts. We’ve begun to eat our own limbs. The greed that is being generated (and marketed as a value interchangeable with nationalism) can only be sated by grabbing land, water and resources from the vulnerable. What we’re witnessing is the most successful secessionist struggle ever waged in Independent India. The secession of the middle and upper classes from the rest of the country. It’s a vertical secession, not a lateral one. They’re fighting for the right to merge with the world’s elite somewhere up there in the stratosphere.
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UK firm to launch $200-300 mn India funds
MUMBAI: UK-based Dawnay Day International, the $10 billion investment company, will raise $200-300 million through two offshore funds to invest in India. Dawnay Day AV (DDAV), the joint venture company of Dawnay Day International and investment banker Alok Vajpeyi, will act as advisors for the investment in India, DDAV Vice- Chairman Alok Vajpeyi told media.
BMW opens plant near Chennai, to invest in India heavily
Chengalpattu/New Delhi. Automobile giant BMW Thursday inaugurated its euro-20-million assembly plant near Chennai amid chanting of Vedic hymns and lighting of lamps, as part of its "major investment" plans treating India as an important base.
"India offers big opportunities for growth, particularly in the premium automobile segment," BMW AG chairman Norbert Reithofer told media at the plant site in Chengalpattu, 40 km south of Chennai.
"In more ways than one, (the outskirts of) Chennai is the perfect location because we have found a skilled and dedicated workforce of 200 people," he said.
The plant is built on 29,000 square metres within Mahindra City with a capacity of 1,700 vehicles a year. Three BMW models will be marketed in India. The lowest priced 3-Series vehicle will cost Rs.2.6 million. The higher range can go up to Rs.4.2 million.
Reithofer revealed that the company already has bookings for 200 vehicles.For the time being, only the seats of the cars are being manufactured in India. The rest of the parts are being imported.
Commenting on the possibilities of indigenisation, Reithofer revealed that for a start the doors of the cars would be manufactured in India. The company will not export its Indian products.
At present a 12-dealer network covers the main metros of Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai and Hyderabad. This network will be doubled before the end of 2007.
Drawing on newly discovered Nostradamus manuscripts, a startling new view of the world is revealed. If you agree that signs like widespread terrorism, a volatile Middle East, and an economic depression could lead to World War III - then you will find this book truly eye-opening.With a total of eight chapters, The Nostradamus Code: World War III opens with an overview of the bewildering events currently unfolding on the world stage. You will find out why they are happening, and what you can do about them to protect yourself.Next, the years 2007 through 2012 are explained in precise detail. Referred to by Nostradamus as the Time of Troubles, this period is full of war, despair, and evil, but also of hope and promise. Use this book to enlighten yourself, your loved ones, your world, and your future.
New Delhi: The CPI-M today admitted there were "problems" in West Bengal's ruling Left Front over the Nandigram incident but said all these issues had been resolved after talks with alliance partners. The party, which drew flak from partners CPI, RSP and Forward Bloc for "keeping them in the dark" on the issue, made it clear that it will conduct an "internal assessment" and a "self-critical analysis" into the episode.
"There were problems and they have been resolved in the March 17 meeting," the CPI-M Polit Bureau member, Brinda Karat, told Karan Thapar's "Devil's Advocate" programme, referring to a Left Front meeting held in Kolkata.
Her comments came as the party's top decision-making bodies -- the Polit Bureau and Central Committee -- deliberated the possible fallout of the Nandigram violence and its adverse impact on the CPI-M's image.
Karat admitted there would be "ups and downs" in the relationship and underlined that the Left Front was "mature enough" to weather the crisis. "All issues were discussed and thrashed out at the March 17 meeting," she said.
Against the backdrop of attacks on Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, she sought to defend him, saying "we work as a collective" and in such a situation "we don't want to pinpoint (things) on this individual or that".
"The chief minister is the leader of a collective. We work in a collective and we have a collective responsibility.. everything is collective," she added.
Karat indirectly criticised CPI general secretary A B Bardhan for his scathing remarks against Bhattacharjee, saying, "it was agreed at the March 17 meeting that the partners would not make public criticism."
Karat did not directly train her guns on anyone, but said, "If people will think it will help them by making public statements they can do so." She also parried questions on veteran CPI-M leader Jyoti Basu's comments against Bhattacharjee.
She said the police firing that killed 14 people was "unfortunate" and refrained from making any comments on who was responsible for the situation, saying, "There was an inquiry into the incident."
Karat also declined to reply to a question on Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi's comments on the police firing, saying "A CBI and a CID inquiry are on. Let wait for its outcome and I am sure they will answer the governor's questions.
"We would not like to pre-empt the inquiry. I would like to wait for the investigations to get over and take it from there," she said.
Karat denied allegations that the chief minister ordered police to go into Nandigram despite knowing they would face stiff resistance and the situation might go out of control.
RAIPUR, India, April 1 (Reuters) - Maoist rebels killed two farmers for allowing their land to be acquired for a planned steel plant, Indian police said on Sunday, as the country debates industrial projects being set up on farmland.The killings took place in a village in Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh state in central India, which is the worst hit of at least 13 out of 29 states affected by Maoist violence.
"Over 40 armed Maoists raided Bhansi village and killed two tribal villagers by slitting their throats for agreeing to surrender their land for Essar Steel's planned plant," senior police officer O.P. Pal told Reuters by telephone.
Bhansi village is about 400 km (250 miles) south of the Chhattisgarh's capital, Raipur.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L0192012.htm
Special Article
CRIMSON CORRIDOR~I
The objective is to establish a “compact revolutionary zone” in the heart of India and use this zone for extending the Naxalite movement to the cities and ultimately to seize the power structure of the states
By JAGMOHAN
IN the last few days, four major events have occurred which show how gravely is India’s internal security imperilled by the rising tide of Naxal violence. On 15 March, about 56 policemen of Chhattishgarh were killed in an attack on a base-camp in the Bastar region. Rocket launchers, detonators and petrol bombs were extensively used. Clearly, the attack was carried out after meticulous planning and with military precision. A few days earlier, JMM Member of Parliament Sunil Kumar Mahato was murdered in broad daylight. In January-February this year, a month long ninth-party Congress was held in a “liberated zone” along the Jharkhand-Bihar border. About three months ago, a landmine explosion in Bokaro district caused the death of 13 police personnel.
The tragic incidents of this nature would continue to happen, unless the basic structure of the current Naxal movement and the nature of the forces sustaining it are fully understood and accounted for in the government strategy.
The Naxalites are presently much better organised, much better led and much better motivated than in the 1960’s when they burst like a “spring thunder” in the Naxalbari area of West Bengal.
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Britain has expressed "continuing regret" over deaths on both sides in the Falklands war! Is UK ready to apologise for genocides in Iraq? Will it give up war plans against Iran? Capture of a UK crew comes amid growing US-Iran friction ! Another War Imminent in the trouble torn Middle east?
US President George W Bush has apologised for the sub-standard living conditions for wounded US troops at the Walter Reed Medical Center! Most Human! What about Iraq, Mr President? US Army Secretary Francis Harvey has resigned amid a row over the treatment of wounded US soldiers. The move follows critical reports in the US media about the care of troops wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq at Washington's Walter Reed hospital.
Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh has said that the government wants the Supreme Court to revoke the stay order on quota in higher educational institutions.Speaking to NDTV on Saturday, Singh said that there is no confrontation with the judiciary and that the OBC census panel will be formed only after an all-party meeting.HRD officials will meet government lawyers on Sunday to look at the legal possibilities following the Supreme Court's order.
The HRD minister also will meet the additional solicitor general.The issue is set to be deliberated upon by the entire ruling UPA amalgam, including Left allies, at a meeting slated for next week.
The quota row escalated further on Friday with political parties across the board stepping up the pressure to implement the 27 per cent OBC quota despite the Supreme Court's stay.Despite protests across the country, sources say the Law Ministry is ruling out bringing in an amendment to bypass the SC order.The position in the Law Ministry is that the court has not objected to reservation in principle and the solution is in resolving the issues that the court has raised like setting up a census committee to get the latest data on OBCs in the country.
An amendment, sources say, might just invite another stay from the court.
OBCs don’t figure
With data tough to come by, will the government be able to meet the Supreme Court’s August deadline, asks Seetha
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070401/asp/7days/story_7589882.asp
Manmohan-Pranab bid to sabotage OBC quota? Bahujans must get ready for caste war
As this is written the OBC reservation fire is raging in all big cities. The upper caste enemies of reservation are instigating some students to stage city-based, media-magnified protests. We treat these with the contempt it deserves.
All the political parties including the Brahmana Jati Party (BJP) have unanimously supported the OBC reservations (except the CPM which mischievously demanded a poverty yardstick). This proves the power of reservations. OBCs form the country’s single largest population (35%). See the strength of our “caste identity” thesis.
The upper castes in every party are enemies of reservations but they dare not say it in public for fear of votes. Electoral politics in India is completely caste-based.
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Dalits thrown out of village for raising voice
Residents of a village in Andhra Pradesh’s Kadapa district have reportedly thrown out Dalits for raising voice against alleged discrimination. After being thrown out of their village, denied every opportunity to earn their livelihood a group of Dalits has now come to Hyderabad.
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The hype surrounding actress Aishwarya Rai weeks before her much-awaited wedding to Abhishek Bachchan has its advantages.For US-based Indian filmmaker Jagmohan Mundhra, it means more publicity for his latest film Provoked, starring Ash as the protagonist. On the othre hand,India had achieved an average growth rate of 8.6 percent in the past three years, Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram said at an Indian Institute of Management graduation ceremony on Saturday evening in Ahmedabad. Chidambaram noted other Asian countries had succeeded better in wiping out abject poverty, raising incomes and promoting literacy and life expectancy.India's brand of democracy, with innumerable checks and balances, had often paralyzed decision-making in the past and led its people to accept "sub-optimal" solutions as well as exacting a cost in time and money while implementing a project. "This approach must change," he said. The economy is forecast to have grown 9.2 percent in the fiscal year which ended on March 31, its fastest pace in 18 years, and the government is keen that the rate of expansion is maintained to bring down poverty among its 1.1 billion people.But the growth has been accompanied by an annual inflation rate of about 6.5 percent in recent weeks.
The stage is set for the 14th SAARC summit in New Delhi, which kicks off on Tuesday, and the one issue on the table is making a free trade agreement work.Trade between members did not accelerate in the five years after structured economic cooperation began with the Saarc Preferential Trading Arrangement (Sapta) in December 1995.Saarc was established in 1985 by Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.It was formed to help boost economic growth and trade in one of the world's poorest regions. It has been flayed by critics who say it has remained a talking shop where lofty speeches are rarely translated into action.Aimed at achieving zero tariffs on almost all products by 2012, Safta has witnessed squabbles over tariff concessions with Pakistan accusing India of violating the agreement with various Non-Tariff Barriers.
Afghanistan formally becomes the group's eighth member at the Delhi summit. In joining, strategically located Afghanistan hopes to link its war-ravaged economy with the relatively more prosperous subcontinent to spur reconstruction and development.China, Japan, South Korea, the United States and the European Union have observer status.
Sri Lanka's foreign minister said he would push for a regional counter-terrorism drive at the summit.
Forming an economic union with a single currency by 2020 could be discussed.
Meanwhile,Maoist ex-rebels are sworn in as ministers in Nepal's interim government in a major step for the peace process. Nepal's veteran trade union activist Sahana Pradhan was Sunday given the high profile foreign minister's job and will represent the country at the SAARC foreign ministers meet this week in New Delhi.This is the third time Pradhan has become a minister. She is the senior most politician in the cabinet after Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala.Founder and chair of the Inter-Party Women's Caucus, Pradhan was chair of the Communist Party of Nepal-Marxist-Leninist.
Her husband Pushpa Lal Pradhan was founder of the Communist Party of Nepal.Pradhan has a long relationship with India, especially West Bengal.Her husband lived in India in exile for 18 years during the panchayat system of government when parties were banned.Pradhan's entry in the interim government was reportedly not liked by Koirala, who wanted former incumbent K.P. Oli to continue.Pradhan, who has been fighting for women's rights, was once nominated for the Nobel peace prize.
CHRONOLOGY-Key dates of Nepal's road to peace
01 Apr 2007 13:33:35 GMT
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Nandigram: Charred body of a child found
A Trinamool Congress-backed body opposing the acquisition of land claimed on Sunday to have found the charred body of a child at Bhangabera in Nandigram, scene of police firing on March 14. The Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee's core committee member Sabuj Pradhan told reporters the body was found while the group's members were digging up land under Bhangabera bridge in the hope of finding bodies of those killed in the police firing.He said the body would be handed over to police.
East Midnapur's Superintendent of Police G Srinivas said police had received reports that a body had been found in Bhangabera but were yet to get possession of it.
Earlier, the BUPC, comprising members of the Trinamool Congress, SUCI, Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, Congress and BJP organised a large procession to demand 'punishment' for Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee for the police firing on March 14.
Fourteen people, including women and children, were killed in police firing as farmers protesting against the setting up of a chemical hub Indonesia's Salim Group tried to prevent policemen from entering Nandigram. The state government later said the project would not be set up in the area.
The protestors displayed banners that said - 'We do not want sympathy, we want punishment by hanging'. They demanded that the CPI-M MP from Tamluk, Laxman Seth, should also be punished punished as he played an 'instrumental' role in the flare-up in Nandigram. The procession, including a large number of women and children, covered a 10-km route from Garchakraberia to Bhangabera where the protestors dispersed after seeing a large posse of policemen.
Later, the protestors began digging up a large area under Bhangabera bridge while a huge police contingent monitored the situation.
Police said they were keeping a close watch on the situation in Nandigram. A police contingent has been posted on Bhangabera bridge to monitor the situation, Srinivas said.
Trinamool Congress MLA Subhendu Adhikary told reporters that though Nandigram was limping back to normalcy, the situation at Khejuri continued to be volatile. He alleged that a strong contingent of CPI-M supporters had congregated at Khejuri.
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Nandigram: Let The Truth Be Known
By Prakash Karat
01 April, 2007
Countercurrents.org
The events in Nandigram, starting from the January 3 incident have been the subject of a heated controversy. A feature of this political tussle has been the concerted attempt to attack the CPI(M) on the grounds that it is taking an anti-peasant stance in favour of big companies. It is accused of using the police for this purpose.
http://www.countercurrents.org/karat010407%5D.htm
West Bengal killings denounced
Eva Cheng
30 March 2007
On March 23, hundreds of thousands of people from all over India converged in Delhi to express their anger at the killing of peasant protesters on March 14 by police and thugs aligned with the West Bengal Left Front (LF) government. Those killed were resisting eviction from their land in Nandigram. Similar killings also happened on January 7. The mass rally was preceded by two days of cultural protests.
group of 500 armed Maoist rebels on Saturday blew up a road bridge, attacked a police station and a block office and made an abortive attempt to loot a bank, injuring two persons, at Riga in Bihar's Sitamarhi district.The Maoists stormed the Central Bank of India branch at Riga and injured its manager and a Home guard while attempting to loot cash from the chest, which they failed to break open, police sources said.
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/705/36627
Superintendent of Police M R R Nair told PTI that around 500 heavily armed CPI (Maoist) activists used dynamite to blow up a bridge snapping road communication between Riga and Dheng.They later laid a virtual siege of the Riga police station and exploded several bombs and exchanged fire with the Bihar Military Police and Special Auxilliary Police personnel deployed there for over 45 minutes.The security men, however, forced the Naxalites to retreat after the arrival of reinforcements from the district headquarters.All the entry and exit points of the district were sealed and raids were being made at different places to apprehend the Naxalites, the SP said.
Tata group plans to set up SEZ at Gopalpur, Reports Tara NewZ
Sunday, April 1, 2007
To become a truly global player with a much wider business vision, the Tata Group is likely to set up a Special Economic Zone(SEZ) at Gopalpur in Orissa despite the risk of facing local opposition.
Since the 7.2 billon dollar Tata Group no longer desired to be known only as India's largest steel, auto and IT conglomerate and wanted to spread its wings to several other fields in tune with the Group's high value business propositions, considerations were being made to venture into the SEZ business soon, said Executive Director of Tata Sons Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Group, R Gopalakrishnan here today.
Participating in an interactive session with selected Media representatives, Mr Gopalakrishna highlighting the century old high value business ethos of the Group, said in keeping with the present trend of the national economy Tata Group was also planning to make deeper forays into several other fields including discovery of new drugs, their research and development, telecom, satellite TV through DTX technology, Retail and even into Credit card businesses besides the SEZ.
Among these considerable success had alrearedy been achieved in the Telecom sector where Tata Indicom had already made its presence felt throughout the country to be India's one of the largest telecom operators.
Refusing to shed any further light on the prospect of Tata Group's venturing into the proposed SEZ at Gopalpur because of the ongoing nationwide controvery on the issue, Mr Gopalkrishnan said the lan was still at the nascent stage.
Asked whether Tata Group is was also planning to enter into the aviation sector since its immediate past president JRD Tata and the present incumbent Ratan Tata were both avid flyers, Mr Gopalakrishnana replied in the negative. " I am not aware of any such development,he said.
When his attention was drawn to the Singur issue which had drawn the Tata Motors, another subsidiary of the Tata Group, into a nationwide controversy for its plan to set up a small car unit there, the Tata Sons ED said on the contrary it was the long established ethics of the Group to get fully engaged with the locals and the society in the area as well where the business was located. Accordingly,there was no question of antagonising the people at Singur since it would not ont ouplift the local economy but would also generate many employment in the area.
Asking the State to grab land has to stop!
T V R Shenoy
For fifty years, ever since he won his first election to Parliament, the same jibe has been hurled at Atal Bihari Vajpayee: 'A good man in a bad party!' From time to time, this would be accompanied by mock-sympathetic invitations to join Party X or Party Y or Party Z.
The former prime minister is a tolerant man. Someone less forgiving would be tempted to turn the tables on his tormentors today, and muse aloud that Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee too is a 'good man in a bad party', and invite the beleaguered chief minister of West Bengal to leave his carping comrades for more congenial company!
I refer, of course, to Nandigram. The CPI-M is currently tying itself up in knots over the issue, its carefully cultivated image as the 'people's champion' torn to shreds by the sight of all hell breaking loose in the green fields of Nandigram.
http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/mar/28flip.htm?zcc=rl
A Million Nandigrams
By Sunita Narain
We were standing between a massive mine and a stunning water reservoir. Local activists were explaining to me how this iron ore mine was located in the catchment of the Salaulim water reservoir, the only water source for south Goa.
Suddenly, as I clicked with my camera, we were surrounded by a jeepload of men. They said they were from the mine management and wanted us off the property. We explained that we had come on a public path and that there were no signs to indicate that we were trespassing. But they were not in a mood to listen. They snatched the keys of our jeep, picked up stones to hit us and got abusive. Before things got totally out of hand, we decided to leave.
I was completely baffled at these developments. After all, this was Goa, known for its peace and calm. This was also the place where industrialists–the Dempos, the Salgoacars, the Timblos with mineral interests–play key roles in education, in culture and in promoting the ethics of good corporate governance.
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Shukla sen writes:
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it is very strange that the statement by people like
teesta setalvad, jayati ghosh and others has been sent
out with an 'introduction'
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There are actually two intros. One, the initial one, is mine. I take no responsibility for the other.
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the second part of the introduction is even stranger.
it questions the veracity of the Left Front Govt. in
claiming that it wanted to institute a judicial
enquiry. The fact that this intention of the Govt.
was stated immediately after the firing can be easily
verified. It is also well-known that the Kolkota High
Court took suo moto cognisance of the tragic events
and instituted a CBI enquiry. It is, therefore, not
possible for the judicial enquiry to be instituted and
started until the High Court gives its permission. It
is only a thorough judicial enquiry that can expose
the truth and ensure that the guilty are punished.
Actually, the LF Govt. has mentioned all these things,
including its desire to institute a judicial enquiry,
in its statement before the High Court.
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I. To my knowledge, Prakash Karat for the first time on March 19, after returning from Kolkata, in a press conference in Delhi talked of a judicial enquiry on behalf of the Party. The incident, we are referring to, had taken place five days earlier on March 14.
This is how Karat has been quoted in the internet edition of Ganashakti (
There is no light, however, thrown on the "beginning".
It is also a common knowledge that the partners of the ruling Left Front partners in a meet of the Front on the same day asked for, inter alia, an enquiry apart from outright condemnation of the incident. The final agreement that was issued later in Kolkata included neither.
Prakash Karat, however, claimed in a signed article in the People's Democracy (March 25) (
was stated immediately after the firing" by Ms. Ali. There is a constant jugglery of words and the deliberate conflation of the Party with the State without ever mentioning "who", "when" and to "whom". Ms. Ali avers that the "fact that this intention of the Govt. was stated mmediately after the firing can be easily verified" without providing any specific clue herself.)
Quite interestingly and tellingly, none of the State functionaries, including the Chief Minister who also happens to be the Home Minister, opened their mouths on this issue.
II. The claim made here that the Kolkata High Court took a suo moto decision and ordered a CBI enquiry is factually inaccurate. There were two pleas before it. The High Court positively responded by ordering an immediate CBI enquiry which would play a very effective role in crying an abrupt halt to the campaign of murder.
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