Buddha meets PC, asks for Naxal ops support
On a day when West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee met home minister P. Chidambaram seeking en-hanced support for the anti-Naxal operations in the state, the CPI(M) lashed out against the UPA ally and its arch political rival in Bengal, the Trinamul Congress, for demanding an end to the joint security operations against Maoists.
CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat said that the Trinamul was “upset” which the fact that the Maoists were being “rebuffed” by the people in West Bengal.
“The people of Maoist-affected Jangalmahal have been resisting and protesting against Maoist violence and intimidation. The people have mobilised in a big way to rebuff the Maoists in West Midnapore district,” he said during a press conference following the party’s two-day politburo meet. Observing that Trinamul was “upset” over this development, Mr Karat said Trinamul leader Mamata Banerjee was demanding withdrawal of joint forces from the area and “making wild allegations” against the CPI(M). “Not only is the Trinamul collaborating with Maoists, recently the railway minister visited Darjeeling and is forging ties with the Gorkhka Janmukti Morcha who are bent upon dividing the state,” Mr Karat said. He said the CPI(M) and the Left Front would continue to “expose these unprincipled alliances and fight such disruptive politics”. Without naming Trinamul Congress, Mr Karat also said the delay in bringing a fresh legislation on land acquisition was due to opposition by “some parties” in UPA-II government which was not pursuing the matter with the seriousness it required. The CPI(M) leadership has demanded the scrapping of the 1894 Land Acquisition Act and sought that the new bill, which must take care of resettlement and rehabilitation of land owners, should be brought in the forthcoming session of Parliament. The CPI(M) boss also said that the Allahabad high court verdict for a three way division of the land in Ayodhya was based on “faith and belief”.
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