People's Democracy(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
Vol. XXXIII
No.
49 December 06, 2009 |
The
following is the memorandum
submitted by the Left Front of West Bengal to the central team visiting
the
state on December 1, 2009, detailing the incidents of terror, killings,
loot
and destruction of property indulged in by the Trinamool Congress and
their
Maoist accomplices.
TMC - MAOIST
NEXUS
The anti-Left
gang up, consisting of the
Trinamool Congress, their �Maoist� accomplices and other allies
including some
separatist forces, has been hell bent to disrupt and jeopardise the
democratic
atmosphere of West Bengal.
The
TMC-backed hoodlums seem to learn no lesson
even to-day and these forces of anarchism and disorder are in no mood
to give
up their fascist-like terror-tactics.
The
irresponsible behaviour especially on the
part of the members of the union cabinet representing the TMC is
deplorable. It
is quite unprecedented that two union ministers, Mukul Roy, minister of
state
for shipping and Sisir Adhikari, minister of state for rural
development along
with leader of the opposition in the state assembly, Partha
Chattopadhyay went
to Lalgarh on 28 July 2009 defying
Section 144 and paying no heed to the advice of the state
administration not to
do so.
The open
demand to withdraw the joint security
forces from Lalgarh even by the members of the union cabinet reveals
their
disrespect for the decision of the union cabinet and exposes once again
TMC�s
covert and overt connivance with the Maoists and the so-called
�Janasadharaner
Committee�.
Such an
attitude is quite detrimental to
democratic norms and will only encourage the Maoist gunmen and
anti-social
opportunists. This is part of a well planned programme to incite and
organise
violent activities in
It may also
be remembered that few months back a
TMC MP �warned� in Khejuri of Purba Medinipur district that nobody
would be
allowed to remain to hold aloft the Red Flag.
The
terror-tactics of the TMC and its allies and
their total disregard for democratic norms are also exposed in the
incidents of
planned attempts of assassinating democratically elected people�s
representatives.
Apart from
attacking Left Front MLAs, the armed
anti-socials backed by the TMC in particular are threatening our local
body
members in Panchayats and municipalities and even forced a number of
them under
gun point to tender resignation from their respective responsibilities
as
elected members.
It�s now an
open secret that the TMC and its
�Maoist� accomplices are helping each other in various forms and the
pro-Maoist
elements/ex-Naxalites are getting entry into different frontal
organisations
backed by the TMC.
In Nandigram,
the Maoists helped the Trinamool
hoodlums. In Khejuri also they came forward to back the TMC.
TMC leaders
are also conspicuously maintaining
golden silence uttering nothing against, rather tacitly supporting the
senseless activities of the �Maoists� at times.
It is a shame
that even when Rajdhani Express
passengers were at the threshold of abduction recently, the union
railway minister
tried to skirt the responsibility from the shoulders of the Maoists.
Nishikanta
Mondal, a TMC leader and gram panchayat
pradhan in Nandigram, Purba Medinipur was killed. The TMC leadership
including
its supremo tried to pass on the buck onto the CPI(M), even when the
Maoists
accepted the responsibility of �punishing� Mandal.
The
facts recorded below will reveal the real picture of how the TMC-Maoist
combine
is operating in
2 Nov 2008 � Mine blast
to kill Chief Minister
Buddhadeb Bhattacharya in Shalboni, Paschim Medinipur. The chief
minister and
other dignitaries narrowly escaped.
3Nov 2008 ��Eye wash�
was Mamata Banerjee�s comment on the
incident.
6 Nov 2008 - Mamata
Banerjee in a rally in Kolkata said:
�I don�t see any
Maoists here.�
17 Nov 2008� A so-called
�People�s Committee Against
Police Atrocities� was organised in Dalilpur Chawk, Lalgarh, Paschim
Medinipur.
Chatradhar Mahato was made its spokesperson. Khemananda Mahata, Asit
Mahato,
Jatin Pratihar and such Trinamool Congress leaders are in the front
rank.
CPI(M) since the very beginning has been pointing out that
Chatradhar Mahato is a Trinamool leader.
Chatradhar too admited this on 4 July 2009. In the last year�s
panchayat
election, he was the election agent of Khemananda Mahato, a TMC
candidate in
the panchayat samiti. He even was responsible for
giving a lead to the Trinamool in three
booths of Lalgarh.
27 Dec 2008 - Mamata
Banerjee submitted a
memorandum to the
governor
of West Bengal about the issues
concerning
1 Feb 2009 - Comrade
Nandalal Pal, CPI(M) Binpur
Zonal Committee member was murdered while performing the last rites of his
mother in Murar of
Ramgarh.
2 Feb 2009 - Even
Comrade Nandalal Pal�s mother�s
last rites were not allowed to be performed by Chatradhar Mahato-led
goons.
4 Feb 2009 � Mamata
Banerjee went to Khasjungle
Chotopelia Dharampur area
of Lalgarh, pillion riding on a motor cycle provided by the Maoists
without any police protection and attended a local political
programme.
There she also met with Chatradhar Mahato and other PSJBC leaders,
addressed a
public meeting there supporting
Chatradhar Mahato and his gang but
maintained a golden silence on the Maoists. This inspite of the fact
that the
district administration had requested her not to go to Lalgarh.
6 April 2009 -
The Trinamool candidate and retired bureaucrat-turned TMC boss
Dipak
Ghosh demanded that the election should be held in Lalgarh without any
police
presence. Same was the demand of
Chatradhar Mahato.
12 April 2009
- Chatradhar
Mahato
raised a new set of demands that the so called �civil society� ( pro-TMC group who were already
involved in
anti Left campaign in the state ) should
act as observers in the poll process in Lalgarh.
24 April 2009 -
Chatradhar Mahato and his gang
created ruckus in Kolkata, Trinamool preferred to look the other way.
17 June 2009 �
The campaign of the joint security
forces started. Kishenji, Maoist boss was quoted as, �What will Mamata
do now?�
On the first day of the joint forces� campaign, the Maoists for the
first time
opened fire on the security forces from the house of a Trinamool leader
Anil
Mahato. Police arrested six miscreants from that house.
20 June 2009�Mamata
Banerjee labeled the joint forces
campaign as the �state- sponsored terrorism�.
23 June 2009 �Gour
Chakraborty, �spokesman� of the
Maoists was arrested.
28
June 2009-
Mamata
Banerjee dismissed angrily villagers� offering of drinking water to
jawans of
the joint forces as �all drama�
10
July 2009 --
The Maoists brutally murdered CPI
(M)
Party member Comrade Gurcharan Mahato (48) in
11 July 2009-
Biswanath Mahato , TMC activist from Belpahari and
publicity
secretary of Maoist leader
Kishenji was produced in the court.
15
July 2009-
The Maoists brutally murdered Comrade
Gangahar Mahato (60), secretary of the Tumrashol local committee of the
Party
in Purulia district�s Barabajaar police station area�s Beldi village. Comrade Gangadhar Mahato
was surrounded from all sides and
was fired upon at point blank range and
he died on the spot.
21 July 2009-
Chatradhar Mahato wanted to
sit
in a discussion with a Trinamool delegation.
28 Jul 2009- Sishir
Adhikary, Mukul Roy (both are union
ministers) and Trinamool leader Partha Chatterjee went to Lalgarh
defying
Section 144 of the Cr P C and held closed-door parleys.
30 July
2009-
In Paschim
Medinipur district�s Goaltore�s
Kanjimakali village, suspected
Maoists gunned down
CPI(M) leader Comrade Sagar
Masant.
1
Aug 2009-
Comrade Nirmal Mahato, secretary of the
Birkaad branch committee of the Lalgarh
was killed by the Maoists. His
throat was slit by sharp weapons and
hit with flat objects. Comrade Nirmal Mahato
was the resident of the same village as that of the Maoist
leader Chatradhar
Mahato.
17
Aug 2009-
CPI (M) Jibontla local committee member
Madar Ali Mollah was shot gruesomely
by
Trinamool congress hooligans. The sixty-seven year old veteran leader
was shot
at point blank range. Before killing him, the miscreants also attacked
the Zonal CPI (M) Party office at
Canning, South
24 Paraganas. Several structures
including a CPI (M) demonstration venue, a transport workers� union
office, an
auto rickshaw union office were destroyed.
29
Aug 2009-
In Purulia district, Comrade Laxmikanta Kumar, secretary of the CPI(M)
Chatuhaasa local committee and Arshaa
CPI(M) zonal committee
member and was
killed brutally by the Maoist- Trinamool assassins.
He was a farmer by profession.
The miscreants fled riding on a motorcycle.
30 Aug
2009-
Comrade Debiprasad Hazra, secretary of CPI(M) �s Balarampu Gitilanghar Branch, Balarampur, Purulia district, was killed by the Maoists.
He was brutally shot before the eyes of his
5 year old son.
8
Sept 2009-
Comrade Ramdas Murmu was brutally killed by
the Maoists. He was a primary school
teacher and a member of the CPI(M)
Sukhdali local committee, Sarenga area of Bankura district.
10
Sept 2009 -
Comrade Krishna Kundu, CPI(M) Sarenga
zonal committee member and
secretary of the Bikrampur local committee, Bankura district was
brutally murdered by the Maoists.
14
Sept 2009 -
In Lalgarh Block, two persons were killed by the Maoist Trinamool
alliance. Before the eyes of innocent
children in a
school building, their teacher Kartik Mahato was brutally gunned down
by the
Maoists. He was teaching his
students
in a class room. On the same date, in
Shalboni�s Buripala, CPI(M) branch
secretary Sambhu Mahato
was
forced out from his grocery shop
and was killed by the Maoists. In
the last nine days of September in Jangalmahal, seven CPI(M) workers
had been
killed by the Maoists. Four ordinary
villagers had been killed by the Maoists.
18 Sept 2009 �
Jatin Pratihar, TMC leader close
to the Maoists was arrested from Katapahari along with Trinamool
workers,
Aswini Bej , Sunil Bej and
Sundar Mandi.
20 Sept 2009 -
Trinamool organised
demonstrations demanding the release of the Maoists, they gheraoed a Police Camp in Dherua.
26 Sept 2009
- Chatradhar
Mahato was arrested.
28 Sept 2009
- Noted
strategic expert Bed Marwa alerted on entry of Maoists within Trinamool
ranks.
3 Oct 2009- Mamata
Banerjee is the fittest
candidate for the post of West Bengal chief minister�, said Kishenji.
10 Oct 2009-
�The central government didn�t
want to arrest Chatradhar Mahato. The
joint forces did a wrong thing. The Maoists should get
a chance and the intellectuals should
mediate on this issue�, commented Mamata Banerjee
14 Oct 2009-
Kishanji welcomed Mamata Banerjee�s demand to
withdraw
the joint forces from Lalgarh.
25 Oct 2009�
Sishir Adhikary, union minister
attended a secret meeting in Salboni
resulting in tension in the area.
27 Oct 2009- Attack on
Rajdhani Express. - Sishir Adhikary claims
that he knew about it
- beforehand. Mamata Banerjee didn�t even mention about the involvement
of the
Maoists and said it is the work of CPI(M) .
29 Oct 2009-
Not a single name of accused
persons is present in the FIR of the Railways.
22 Nov
2009 -
Comrade Tapan Mahato was killed in Salboni by the Maoists.
He was among the three CPI (M) workers
abducted by the Maoists.
24
Nov 2009�CPI
(M) Binpur 2 zonal committee member Madan Ghosh was killed by the
Maoists. In
Belpahari block's Hardah area�s Aulia village when he was reaping his
harvest,
the Maoists fired upon him and then hit him with choppers. Madan
Ghosh�s young
son who was a police employee was also not spared .He was also shot at.
26 Nov, 2009 �
Subimal Malli , ABTA member and teacher of Ranga High school
and CPI(M) supporter, was shot from a close range
by suspected Maoists . They snatched the
money that he was carrying and shot the teacher and his pillion rider.
29 Nov 2009-
Mamata
Banerjee reiterated: �There is nothing called Mao�.
Attacks
against CPI (M) members and supporters in Pursurah, Hooghly:
1.
Dilip Manna, son of Haradhan Manna from village Shyampur, was brutally
murdered
by TMC Hoologans on 22, December 2008. The
FIR No. is 144/08.
2.
Mosammat Siddique Begam, wife of S K Mosaraf of village Boro Digrni,
aged 40 years
was gangraped, her hands and leg was broken by rapist TMC hooligans on
27
September 2009. The
FIR
No. is 111/09
3.
Saifunnesa Bibi, mother of Mosaraf, aged
75 years was attacked on 27 September 2009.
Her left leg was smashed by iron rods.
She was admitted first in Dakshin Narayanpur BPHC, Arambagh and
transferred
to Arambagh SD Hospital, and later on referred to SSKM Hospital where
she
died on 4 November 2009.The FIR No. is
115/09 dated 17October 2009.
4.
Sk Hasibul Hussain, son of Late Moliar of village Boro Digrui was
brutally
beaten with iron rods. His hands, legs and rib bones were crushed. He died in Hospital. His house was attacked,
ransacked
and looted. The
FIR No. is 100/09 dated 26 September 2009.
5.
Baidyanath Pal of Sodepur, Pursurah was
attacked.
6.
Ganesh Hasda from Scheduled Tribe was brutally murdered in open day
light. The FIR No. is 88/09
dated 12September 2009
7. From the
24-25 November 2009, eight
members of
Shyampur gram panchayat were beaten and forced to sign resignation
letters. Chhabi Hazra, gram panchayat
member,
and her husband were beaten, their house was looted and destroyed.
Altamesa
Begam, Pursurah panchayat samiti member of village Borodigrui was
beaten and
forced to sign resignation letter. Her house was looted. The FIR could
not be
lodged because of threat from TMC goondas.
The
house of Bimal Sigha Roy, Pursurah zonal
committee member was looted and set to fire.
Jharna
Bhukta, wife of Kanan Bhukta, Shyampur gram panchayat member was beaten
and
forced to sign resignation letter. No FIR could be lodged because of
threat
from TMC goondas.
Gobinda
Bera, pradhan, Shyampur gram panchayat in his written complaint to
officer-in-charge,
Pursurah complained that TMC miscreants are forcing him to sign on
allocation
of funds, looting the funds of panchayat.
TMC miscreants are threatening him that his family would be
murdered if
he refuses to sign according to their instruction (Already established
in district
magistrate�s enquiry on last 25 November 2009).
8.
Eight Party offices of CPI (M) in Pursurah were looted and burnt to
ashes. The
houses of 37 persons belonging to minority community were looted and
destroyed.
The houses of 65 persons belonging to the Scheduled Caste community
were looted
and destroyed till date. A total of 127 CPI(M) workers were seriously
injured.
A total of 173 workers and Party members were forced to leave their
houses. The FIRs were lodged in Pursurah
police
station.
During
the last floods, TMC miscreants looted relief materials from Pursurah
relief godown
(7 October to 12 October 2009).
All
Types of weapons � guns, revolvers, mini canon, sword, tangi, and bombs
are
being used by the TMC hooligans in all the eight gram panchayat areas of Pursurah police station.
Astapada
Bera of Pursurah village and Parvez Rahaman of Baikanthapur village are
leading
all the TMC attacks.