Dasmunsi hits out at CPM on Nandigram
Union minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi accused the Weat Bengal CPM of deliberately keeping Nandigram on the boil.
By TNN |
NEW DELHI: After his recent attack on the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government on the issue of food riots in West Bengal, to be followed up by the AICC to hit back at the nuclear deal-blocking comrades, Union minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi on Tuesday accused the state CPM of deliberately keeping Nandigram on the boil and sought an inquiry by the Union home ministry into the alleged firing on the convoy of Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Sunday. His loaded expression of solidarity with Ms Banerjee coincides with the Congress efforts to get her back into the party fold.
In a letter to Union home minister Shivraj Patil, the senior Congress leader said: “Nandigram has become extremely tense again and several armed men, with the help of police, have entered the area. I strongly feel that the culprits behind the attacks should be booked in order to restore peace in the area. The reported incident of firing at the convey of Ms Mamata Banerjee is a serious matter that calls for an objective inquiry, especially since she is a sitting MP. I request you to talk to the state chief minister and also (to ensure) appropriate steps from the home ministry to restore confidence of the people and also to find out the role of the state machinery in the incident.”
Incidentally, the AICC attack on the Left on the food riots also followed Mr Dasmunsi raising the issue through letters to the prime minister and the food minister.
Accusing the state CPM of standing on the way of normalisation of Nandigram and charging the chief minister of failing to find a political solution to the Nandigram issue, Mr Dasmunsi told the home minister. “When the CBI stepped in Nandigram after the High Court order, it did unearth some ammunition and lethal weapons from the brick field allegedly organised by the party in power in the state. I had appealed to the chief minister find ways to restore peace... but he cannot find a political solution to the matter by taking other Left Front constituents and the Opposition into confidence. I feel had the culprits behind the violence in January and March this year been booked, Nandigram would have been peaceful by now. But nothing of that kind is being done due to the deliberate interference of the party in power in the state.”
He blamed the state government’s inept handling of the earlier incidents for the eruption of violence in the sensitive Nandigram area. Urging the union home minister to step in, Mr Dasmunsi called for urgent administrative steps to restore confidence in the minds of people in the area who “have been politically isolated and not allowed to move around freely”.
In a letter to Union home minister Shivraj Patil, the senior Congress leader said: “Nandigram has become extremely tense again and several armed men, with the help of police, have entered the area. I strongly feel that the culprits behind the attacks should be booked in order to restore peace in the area. The reported incident of firing at the convey of Ms Mamata Banerjee is a serious matter that calls for an objective inquiry, especially since she is a sitting MP. I request you to talk to the state chief minister and also (to ensure) appropriate steps from the home ministry to restore confidence of the people and also to find out the role of the state machinery in the incident.”
Incidentally, the AICC attack on the Left on the food riots also followed Mr Dasmunsi raising the issue through letters to the prime minister and the food minister.
Accusing the state CPM of standing on the way of normalisation of Nandigram and charging the chief minister of failing to find a political solution to the Nandigram issue, Mr Dasmunsi told the home minister. “When the CBI stepped in Nandigram after the High Court order, it did unearth some ammunition and lethal weapons from the brick field allegedly organised by the party in power in the state. I had appealed to the chief minister find ways to restore peace... but he cannot find a political solution to the matter by taking other Left Front constituents and the Opposition into confidence. I feel had the culprits behind the violence in January and March this year been booked, Nandigram would have been peaceful by now. But nothing of that kind is being done due to the deliberate interference of the party in power in the state.”
He blamed the state government’s inept handling of the earlier incidents for the eruption of violence in the sensitive Nandigram area. Urging the union home minister to step in, Mr Dasmunsi called for urgent administrative steps to restore confidence in the minds of people in the area who “have been politically isolated and not allowed to move around freely”.
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