"Farmers were working on the land outside the Tata factory boundary. Police baton-charged them........"
Singur (West Bengal), Aug 20: Two policemen and scores of villagers were injured in clashes, as farmers protested a proposed Tata Motors proposed car factory at Singur. The farmers said they were working peacefully on the land surrounding the Tata factory and police instigated them by launching a baton-charge.
"Farmers were working on the land outside the Tata factory boundary. Police baton-charged them, after which the farmers tried to hop over the wall to till the land there. Police fired 10 rounds of tear gas," claimed Becharam Manna, a member of the Krishi Jami Rakshya Committee. The police said the farmers attacked the factory wall, and therefore, they retaliated. "Around 200 to 300 villagers attacked the wall of the factory with shovels, saying they will not allow the work to go on. Police warned them, but when they paid no heed, we baton-charged them. While they ran, they pelted stones on policemen, and so, we were forced to fire teargas on them," said Kalyan Mukherjee, a police official.Mukherjee said a Deputy Superintendent of Police and a constable were injured in the ensuing melee. Tata Motors started to build its factory in Singur in January 2007 to make what the company claims will be the world's cheapest car for 100,000 rupees.There have been regular protests in West Bengal this year over the acquisition of agriculture land for industry.Trinamool Congress has been spearheading a campaign for better compensation for the farmers whose lands were acquired by the State Government for the project.he government says it has compensated most of the affected farmers.The proposed Special Economic Zone has since been scrapped by the government and they are looking for alternative land.
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I am Bengali and grew up in Behala. I know how much common Bengali Hindus hate rich people particularly Marwaris. What I see here is a concerted lynching of a successful Hindu Marwari and nothing more. Bengalis don’t like Muslims either but their hatred for rich Marwaris is far greater. Women’s commission is simply stating a fact they uncovered during their interview of Miss Todi and by doing so, they simply did a wonderful job. Bengalis love in Syed Mojtuba Ali’s language :”Uttejonar agun pohano” meaning “enjoyment of the warmth of excitement” or “Hutzpah” in Hebrew. Rehman case is just another Begali hutzpah. Under Jyoti Basu’s tight fisted communist rule, Bangalis did not have any excitement in a while.
All of my 22 years in Kolkata, only thing I have seen my Bengalis do is bitch, complain, and protest against anything and everything. That is how people like Jyoti Basu came to power. These communists not only hate rich Marwaris they equally hate Hindu religion. Muslims are taking advantage of the current political situation and trying to spread their religion and Urdu language in Bengal under the cover of communism. Many of these muslims would love what happened in Bangladesh. Every Hindu family has to marry one daughter to a Moslem in order to be left alone by the Moslem extremists. That is what is coming to you, stupid Kolkata Bengalis.
revolutionarypath.blogspot.com; You saved my day again.
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