They struck with impunity
After Nandigram comes Lalgarh. Every day the bhadralok CM of West Bengal is getting unmasked and what is coming out is sending a shudder down the spine.When the villagers of Netaigram in lalgarh area had assembled outside a house to protest against armed camps of CPM cadres residing inside, there were several rounds of firing on them and many of them got killed on the spot. The below photos are taken courtesy a local Bengali daily.
When recently the home minster sent a letter to the CM, asking about presence of armed camps in Lalgarh, instead of acknowleding the problem the CM haughtily responded to it, as if leaders of the left parties are not accountable to any one, not definitely to the consitution. More lies and propaganda were spread often through the friends in the media, of alleged nexus between opposition and Maoists. When that story was not bought a new line of attack was conceived - terrorize them to teach them a lesson, the same tactics which they have adopted successfully for the past 35 years in rural Bengal. But the party leadership is increasingly concerned that the tactics is no longer working as people are becoming more and more desperate. If you corner a cat for long, in desperation it will bite you. Similarly in West Bengal's most deprived areas, Maoist menace have gone up. Ironically it is the same Maoists that helped CPM reclaim Chotta Angria village in 2000, killing many innocent villagers in the process. And now the state leadership wants to pin the balme of these killings on the same Maoists and is alleging their nexus with state opposition.
The ruling party has no obligation in maintaining law and order, things are now totally out of their control and its better that they acknowledge the same sooner and move away quitely because people are willing to pay any price to make them go. In these 35 years the state has bullied the police forces into absolute ineffectiveness and incomptence by inducting and promoting people with party affiliation everywhere. Result is that the police force in West Bengal is non existent, except for firing on innocent unarmed villagers or while extracting money from them. In 35 years the state has also built armed cadres who used to win elections for the party year after year by simply intimidating voters. This gang of armed cadres, refered to as "Harmads" in local parlance have now gone berserk, probably in the fear of retribution. The monster can no longer be leashed and the state leadership has decided to unleash them instead.
People of West Bengal are paying with blood and tears for their sin of being indifferent for so many years. West Bengal is now "Waste" Bengal after all these 35 years.
When recently the home minster sent a letter to the CM, asking about presence of armed camps in Lalgarh, instead of acknowleding the problem the CM haughtily responded to it, as if leaders of the left parties are not accountable to any one, not definitely to the consitution. More lies and propaganda were spread often through the friends in the media, of alleged nexus between opposition and Maoists. When that story was not bought a new line of attack was conceived - terrorize them to teach them a lesson, the same tactics which they have adopted successfully for the past 35 years in rural Bengal. But the party leadership is increasingly concerned that the tactics is no longer working as people are becoming more and more desperate. If you corner a cat for long, in desperation it will bite you. Similarly in West Bengal's most deprived areas, Maoist menace have gone up. Ironically it is the same Maoists that helped CPM reclaim Chotta Angria village in 2000, killing many innocent villagers in the process. And now the state leadership wants to pin the balme of these killings on the same Maoists and is alleging their nexus with state opposition.
The ruling party has no obligation in maintaining law and order, things are now totally out of their control and its better that they acknowledge the same sooner and move away quitely because people are willing to pay any price to make them go. In these 35 years the state has bullied the police forces into absolute ineffectiveness and incomptence by inducting and promoting people with party affiliation everywhere. Result is that the police force in West Bengal is non existent, except for firing on innocent unarmed villagers or while extracting money from them. In 35 years the state has also built armed cadres who used to win elections for the party year after year by simply intimidating voters. This gang of armed cadres, refered to as "Harmads" in local parlance have now gone berserk, probably in the fear of retribution. The monster can no longer be leashed and the state leadership has decided to unleash them instead.
People of West Bengal are paying with blood and tears for their sin of being indifferent for so many years. West Bengal is now "Waste" Bengal after all these 35 years.
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