"TRUE COLOUR OF CPM's PEACEFULL FARMER AGITATION"...........OR.........IF LEFT LED MILITANCY AND "GHERAV" RAJ REVISITING BENGAL ?
Bibekananda Biswal : A lady police officer runs for cover as CPM goons attack her with bamboo sticks & bricks in Kolkatta.
"TRUE COLOUR OF CPM's PEACEFUL FARMER AGITATION"....will it be repeated on 2nd September Bandh ?
"Over 2 lakh people occupied all roads to Nabanna for 3 hours braving brutal attack of police. There will be a more befitting reply to the Trinamool government will follow," said Surya Kanta Mishra, CPM leader.
The protest was held under the banner of Left Peasants' Organisations, led by the CPM's farmers' wing, Krishak Sabha. They were protesting farmer suicides, the lack of support price for crops, and failure of the government to compensate crop losses during recent floods in the state.
Central Kolkata and parts of adjoining Howrah turned into a battlefield today, Left parties claim that nearly 200 protesters were injured in clashes with the police during a march to the secretariat to demand farmers' rights, as chief minister Mamata Banerjee termed it as a "barbaric" act by Left supporters.
Clashes took place at Red Road, Dufferin Road and Khidderpore in Kolkata and at Satragachi and Foreshore Road in Howrah.
At Foreshore Road, protesters were dispersed with tear gas and water cannons while sticks were used on protesters after they hurled bricks at the police. At Red Road-Dufferin Road, as protesters rushed the police barricades and pelted stones, Biman Bose, chairman of the Left Front and CPM Politburo, was hit on the head with a stone.
India Honest finds with utmost dismay that the CPM politburo has condemned the police action on its supporters and said that people of Bengal will give a befitting reply to the ruling Trinamool Congress while Ms Banerjee described it as "CPM's tandav" or "barbaric chaos".
But the million $ question is raised by the above photograph.........IF THIS IS THE TRUE COLOUR OF CPM's FARMERS PEACEFUL AGITATION ? OR IS IT MILITANCY AND "GHERAO" RAJ REVISITING BENGAL AFTER THIRTY FOUR YEARS ?
India Honest is worried on the media reports that fresh battle lines have been drawn in West Bengal with chief minister Mamata Banerjee today criticising the Left parties for clashes in Kolkata yesterday, threatening to 'finish' such protests in a minute. Her warning comes as the Left said that their shutdown on September 2 would be historic. Ms Banerjee told a public rally in Kolkata this afternoon, "Yesterday, the Left created tandav (mayhem)," adding, "We will not let it happen in future. I can finish such protests in one minute."
India Honest argues that lines of confrontation drawn by both the parties will never be helpful for the safety of people and the dismal health of economy .
India Honest argues that lines of confrontation drawn by both the parties will never be helpful for the safety of people and the dismal health of economy .