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CPI(M) assails Trinamool, Maoists

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"They are provoking and instigating senseless violence"

NEW DELHI: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) said on Thursday that the West Bengal Government had planned to order a judicial inquiry into the Nandigram firing, even as the High Court ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation to look into it.

Prakash Karat, party general secretary, told The Hindu here that he had a talk with Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on the situation.

The party accused the Trinamool Congress and Maoist elements of having perfected the art of provoking and instigating senseless violence.

"Some years ago, in Keshpur in Midnapur district, these elements created similar mayhem and terror in order to establish their political presence. Many lives were lost even then, but once peace and order was restored and elections held, the Left Front scored resounding victories. The Keshpur model is now being sought to be repeated in Nandigram,'' the editorial in the latest edition of the party organ, People's Democracy, said.

It said that following the electoral drubbing received in the Assembly elections last year, the Trinamool Congress and company, in their desperation to regain some political space, embarked on such a diabolic strategy.

"Their desperation also arises from the fact that for decades, they had been campaigning that no industrialisation was ever possible in West Bengal under the Left Front rule. This, in fact, was their staple diet to flaunt their political existence. Now, if industrialisation were to progress under the Left Front rule in West Bengal, then the very foundations of their political existence gets eroded," the editorial said.

It said the sections that opposed the land reforms undertaken by the Left Front Government were now seeking to portray themselves as the protectors of the peasantry and their land. "Such duplicity cannot and will not survive. Like they failed in Keshpur, so shall they once again."

The party said this was a political challenge before the CPI(M) and the Government in West Bengal, which would be met politically. "The Left Front Government in West Bengal is a product of many glorious movements advancing people's interests. Many valuable lives were lost in these struggles, but the reactionaries were never allowed to succeed," it said.

The Telugu Desam Parliamentary Party and the Nationalist Congress Party condemned the incident and asked both the State and Central Governments to take the views of farmers before acquiring any land for special economic zones.

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