The CPI-M would have liked a full-fledged judicial inquiry, so that all the circumstances which led to the police action and the firing could be looked into and the facts established. The reactions against the police action in the rest of the country also reflect the same disapproval. Report of the People's Tribunal on Nandigram (with CD) [All India Citizens Initiative] on Amazon.com. This was under the consideration of the state government. West Bengal will protect and further develop agriculture; the gains of land reforms will not be undermined but the emphasis on industrialisation will not be given up. CPI-M offices and the houses of party workers and supporters were burnt down or looted. In the resulting mayhem, at least 200 people were killed.After the 14 March killings, volunteer doctors visited the Nandigram health centre, the district hospital at Long-time West Bengal finance minister and CPI(M) leader Ashok Mitra criticized the government and his party, accusing the party's leadership of The scale of the action stunned the state, and the The CPI(M) adopted the position that land would not be acquired without the consent of the people of Nandigram. For the first time since the Trinamool candidates won all four seats of the Nandigram I and II blocks. In the ensuing confrontation, 14 people died and many injured including policemen. A police team was sent to prevent protesters from digging up roads; one police officer was killed while trying to repair a road, and 12 others were seriously injured.
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The police were met with protests not only by the local people but from elements armed with bombs and pipe guns.The deaths of ordinary people in police firing is deeply regrettable. ISBN 978-81-89654-44-3 (with CD) l INR225. The events in Nandigram, starting from the January 3 incident have been the subject of a heated controversy. The people of West Bengal know who are the true champions of their interests and who are in the reactionary combine which is the TMC, BJP and its new-found allies. The Left parties have already spelt out the changes required.As for those who want the Left Front government to give up its industrialisation policy, they will be disappointed. The Kolkata High Court, however, in an unprecedented step, without even asking the state government for a report, ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation inquiry on the March 14 incident.The police firing resulting in deaths has incurred the disapproval of different sections of people in West Bengal, a state which has a high level of democratic consciousness. The events in Nandigram, starting from the January 3 incident have been the subject of a heated controversy. They accused the Jami Raksha Committee, a coalition of activists who opposed land acquisition, of armed attacks on relief camps which led to three deaths, a series of murders and a A new round of violence occurred in November 2007 as the villagers who were displaced by the BUPC returned home. There was no notification for land acquisition by the authorities at any stage. Altogether, 2,500 leaders, supporters and members of the party were driven out of the area.Most of the media and the political opponents of the CPI-M have remained conspicuously silent about the operation to cleanse Nandigram of the CPI-M.It is shocking that many of the intellectuals who claim to be on the Left, have not said a word of condemnation about these cleansing operations which led to the brutal murder of Sankar Samanta, a CPI-M panchayat member and Sunita Mondal, a school student. She was targeted because she belonged to a CPI-M supporter's family that refused to join the programme of the Bhumi Rakkha Committee.The TMC-Jamiat-Naxalite combination which spearheaded the Bhumi Rakkha Committee was able to keep the people mobilised with a fear that their land would be taken away. Such an event is painful and unfortunate. As recently as March 3, a woman was gang raped by men led by a local TMC leader. Such reactions are understandable. Based on the Report of the People’s Tribunal on Nandigram (26–28 May 2007) Foreword by Lalita Ramdas.