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Appeal against court order: Biman Bose

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Kolkata: The West Bengal government should appeal to the Supreme Court against Friday’s Calcutta High Court order to ensure the rights of the State, State secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Biman Bose said here on Saturday.

“I ask the State government to appeal to the Supreme Court against the judgment to ensure the rights of the State, which were being encroached upon sometimes by the Centre and in the present context, by the judiciary,” he said, while addressing a CPI(M) public rally to preserve law and order in the State.

The court on Friday described the police firing on March 14 at Nandigram in West Bengal’s Purbo Medinipur district as “unconstitutional,” asking the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to continue its probe into the incident.

“The court has suddenly become active and has started deciding what the State should do and what it should not,” Mr. Bose said. “What is the need then for the executive or legislature, why spend so much on elections if the court will decide everything?” he added.

Mr. Bose also appealed to all those who had been evicted from their homes at Nandigram to return, regardless of their political or ideological affiliations.

“I assure you that there will be no attitude of revenge, even though we have lost 27 of our party workers in the violence of the past 11 months,” he said, adding that the objective was to establish peace.

Promises help

Promising administrative help to those coming back, he said that various reactionary forces, both national and international, were getting together and trying to create anarchy and hatch conspiracies against the Left Front government in West Bengal.

Mr. Bose also ridiculed a section of the city’s intellectuals who were protesting against alleged oppression in Nandigram, pointing out that they did not sympathise with the plight of those spending time in relief camps for the past 11 months.

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