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Propaganda behind trouble: Brinda Karat

Staff Reporter

"Nandigram villagers driven out to hide the truth"

Kolkata: The violent incidents at Nandigram on March 14 were the result of a "motivated, malicious propaganda based on lies" by the Opposition parties, Brinda Karat, Polit Bureau member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), said here on Wednesday.

Ms. Karat, who was here to meet the Nandigram villagers camping in the city since Tuesday demanding justice, said the families had been driven out so that they would not be able to tell the truth about the exact nature of events.

"There is not a single Chief Minister in the country except Buddhadeb Bhattacharya who has ever made such a categorical statement that not a single inch of land will be taken without the consent of farmers," she said.

Ms. Karat, who earlier visited those injured in a city hospital, said the villagers had been fed on the lie that the police were coming to occupy the land. "There is a village- to-village campaign by these people who are spreading the lie of land acquisition," Ms. Karat said.

The villagers gave an account of the atrocities committed by the Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee members and sought justice, in an open letter to the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court.

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