03-17-2007, 05:18 AM
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Saugar Sengupta | Kolkata
Pioneer.com
Most spontaneous bandh in 30 years
All of West Bengal went on an unprecedented strike on Friday to protest Wednesday's CPI(M)-sponsored police brutality in Nandigram that has left at least 14 men and women dead and many missing. The State has not witnessed a bandh so complete and spontaneous in the past three decades of Left Front rule, reflecting the popular mood at the moment.
While most people stayed at home, enraged Opposition activists torched buses that were ordered to ply by the Government. Road and rail traffic was disrupted. Top district administrative officials and policemen were beaten up in many places.Â
The bandh, called separately by the Trinamool Congress, the Congress, the SUCI, the BJP and the CPIML (Liberation) for varying durations, received support from unusual quarters with key allies of the CPI(M) - the CPI, the RSP and the Forward Bloc - saying the people's response was spontaneous and unprecedented.
"There is no point denying the success of the bandh. The question is not who called it, but on what issue it was called. It was a complete bandh," CPI State secretary Manju Majumdar said.Â
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Even CPI, RSP, Forward Bloc supported bandh
Police arrest 268 people in Kolkata alone
Road, rail traffic disrupted
Marxist cadre clash with Opposition activists in Malda, Balurghat
30 per cent attendance recorded at Writers' Building and State Secretariat
Jyotibabu describes Buddhadeb as arrogant man: Mamata
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Saugar Sengupta | Kolkata
Pioneer.com
Most spontaneous bandh in 30 years
All of West Bengal went on an unprecedented strike on Friday to protest Wednesday's CPI(M)-sponsored police brutality in Nandigram that has left at least 14 men and women dead and many missing. The State has not witnessed a bandh so complete and spontaneous in the past three decades of Left Front rule, reflecting the popular mood at the moment.
While most people stayed at home, enraged Opposition activists torched buses that were ordered to ply by the Government. Road and rail traffic was disrupted. Top district administrative officials and policemen were beaten up in many places.Â
The bandh, called separately by the Trinamool Congress, the Congress, the SUCI, the BJP and the CPIML (Liberation) for varying durations, received support from unusual quarters with key allies of the CPI(M) - the CPI, the RSP and the Forward Bloc - saying the people's response was spontaneous and unprecedented.
"There is no point denying the success of the bandh. The question is not who called it, but on what issue it was called. It was a complete bandh," CPI State secretary Manju Majumdar said.Â
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Even CPI, RSP, Forward Bloc supported bandh
Police arrest 268 people in Kolkata alone
Road, rail traffic disrupted
Marxist cadre clash with Opposition activists in Malda, Balurghat
30 per cent attendance recorded at Writers' Building and State Secretariat
Jyotibabu describes Buddhadeb as arrogant man: Mamata
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