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And the CPI(M), the leading partner of the Left Front,
has asked for a judicial inquiry into the tragedy.
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Would someone please explain:
I. When and where did the CPIM ask for a judicial
enquiry?
II. What stops the West Bengal government from doing
so?
III. Are the "non-leading" partners stopping the State
government from going ahead?
IV. Why then the apologists of the CPIM are still
feeling shy of asking for a judicial enquiry?

Sukla
--- rohit wrote:

> dear all,
> a statement has been issued by some leading left
> intellectuals on the issue
> of Nandigram:
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Subject: A Statement by Left intellectuals on
> nandigram Incident

> * STATEMENT*
>
>
>
> We the undersigned, who have long been
> associated with the Left
> movement in the country, feel deeply pained and
> anguished by the loss of
> lives and injuries suffered during the police action
> in Nandigram on March
> 14. Nobody belonging to the Left would ever justify
> repressive action
> against peasants or workers who are the basic
> classes of the Left. The
> tragedy at Nandigram on March 14 was an entirely
> unanticipated, unjustified
> and unfortunate turn of events, whose exact origin
> and course should be
> established through a proper inquiry. The Left Front
> government meanwhile
> has announced the removal of the police force from
> Nandigram, has reiterated
> its policy that no land will be acquired for
> industrial purposes without the
> consent of the peasants and other people concerned,
> has put on hold all land
> acquisition, and has put a halt to the construction
> of SEZs until the
> Central legislation on SEZs itself, to which the
> Left has always been
> opposed, is suitably amended. And the CPI(M), the
> leading partner of the
> Left Front, has asked for a judicial inquiry into
> the tragedy. Under these
> circumstances, and in view of the fact that the
> state government has
> committed itself to recompensing the families of the
> victims, all efforts
> must be made so that tension subsides and normalcy
> returns to the area,
> allowing the numerous refugees, who have been driven
> out from there and
> living in makeshift camps, to return home. We appeal
> to all concerned not to
> let the wounds of Nandigram become festering sores.
>
>
>
> *Amiya Kumar Bagchi, Professor, Institute of
> Development Studies, Kolkata. *
>
> *M.K.Raina, Thetare Activist, Delhi.*
>
> *Ram Rahman, Freelance Photographer, Delhi.*
>
> *Malini Bhattacharya, Formerly Professor, Jadavpur
> University , Kolkata.*
>
> *Utsa Patnaik, Professor, Center for Development
> Studies and Planning, JNU,
> Delhi.*
>
> *Javeed Alam, Formerly Professor, CIEFL, Hyderabad.*
>
> *Mihir Bhattacharya, Formerly Professor, Jadavpur
> University , Kolkata.*
>
> *Jayati Ghosh, Professor, Centre for Economic
> Studies and Planning, JNU, New
> Delhi.*
>
> *Mohan Rao, Professor, Centre for Social medicine
> and Community Health, JNU,
> Delhi.*
>
> *Nasir Tyabji, Centre for Jawaharlal Nehru Studies,
> Jamia Millia Islamia,
> New Delhi.*
>
> *Meena Rajyadhyaksha, Department of Sociology, Delhi
> School of Economics,
> Delhi.*
>
> *Praveen Jha, Centre for Economic Studies and
> Planning, JNU, Delhi.*
>
> *Prabhat Patnaik, Professor, Centre for Development
> Studies and Planning,
> JNU, Delhi. Teesta Seetalvad, Co-editor,
> Communalism Combat, Mumbai.*
>
> *D.N.Jha, Formerly Professor, Department of History,
> Delhi University,
> Delhi.*
>
> *Ruchira Gupta, Consultant, UNICEF, Delhi.*
>
>
>
> Released by Prabhat Patnaik,
> Tel: 011-26163541