Aparna Sen asks people to fight for Nandigram
Film maker Aparna Sen calls West Bengal to fight for Nandigram as they did in the case of Rizwanur Rahman.
By PTI |
KOLKATA: Eminent film-maker and actress Aparna Sen on Saturday called on the people of West Bengal to fight for the cause of Nandigram just as they did in the case of Rizwanur Rahman.
"Like we protested in Rizwanur's case seeking a CBI probe into his mysterious death, we must also do the same in this case," Sen said while joining social activist Medha Patkar and others at Esplanade here.
Cautioning the Left Front government in West Bengal, she said, "It may be running the state government, but the state is not its fiefdom."
Likening the state to a slaughterhouse, Sen quoted from a Bengali poetry, saying "this bloodied slaughterhouse is not my country."
"For our democratic rights, we must fight," the much-acclaimed film-maker and actress said.
Sen, who said she was boycotting the Kolkata International Film Festival beginning today, also praised Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi for his statement criticising the CPI(M)'s forcible 'recapture' of Nandigram.
Sen was joined by film-maker Rituparno Ghosh, writer Mahasweta Devi and Medha Patkar at the agitation venue.
"Like we protested in Rizwanur's case seeking a CBI probe into his mysterious death, we must also do the same in this case," Sen said while joining social activist Medha Patkar and others at Esplanade here.
Cautioning the Left Front government in West Bengal, she said, "It may be running the state government, but the state is not its fiefdom."
Likening the state to a slaughterhouse, Sen quoted from a Bengali poetry, saying "this bloodied slaughterhouse is not my country."
"For our democratic rights, we must fight," the much-acclaimed film-maker and actress said.
Sen, who said she was boycotting the Kolkata International Film Festival beginning today, also praised Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi for his statement criticising the CPI(M)'s forcible 'recapture' of Nandigram.
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Sen was joined by film-maker Rituparno Ghosh, writer Mahasweta Devi and Medha Patkar at the agitation venue.
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