05-09-2007, 05:04 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Nandigram: Ugly Attack on Kolkata Intellectuals on May 1 Evening: A Firsthand Account</b>
We took relief to Nandigram. While comming back [on Tuesday, May 1 evening] we came across a rally by CPM cadres. They had been carrying party flags, shouting slogans. We managed to cross them. We had a large convoy of seven cars. Two of the cars were separated from the others. I was in one of them. Since we were not with the convoy they failed to understand who we had been. Though they had searching eyes we ignored. We closed the windows & the glasses were dark. That could be the reason for their not recognising us. The other five cars behind us could not escape their notice. They recognised the stickers of the forum too. The hooliganism started using filthy languages and they hit the cars with the rear ends of the flags. Perhaps that was the purpose of carrying so many flags. They were looking for me I was told later. In the last car social activist Sm. Bijoya Mukherjee faced the worst. While terrorising them with abuses the goons smashed the rear window.Finally they could escape the mob.
We, on the other hand had been waiting for them since we decided to move together and knew nothing about the incident. We came to know about it when the cars joined us.
We visited the police station. The O.C. was not available. It took us one and half hour to file the FIR and to take the case number. It was Math Chandipur PS. quite far from the city. It was the next day when I could find myself on my bed!!
This was what really happened.
In the morning we found a comment from one of our ministers. The comment called the incident "natural" since the intellectuals and the artistes visited the area to play a political game!
Saoli Mitra<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
We took relief to Nandigram. While comming back [on Tuesday, May 1 evening] we came across a rally by CPM cadres. They had been carrying party flags, shouting slogans. We managed to cross them. We had a large convoy of seven cars. Two of the cars were separated from the others. I was in one of them. Since we were not with the convoy they failed to understand who we had been. Though they had searching eyes we ignored. We closed the windows & the glasses were dark. That could be the reason for their not recognising us. The other five cars behind us could not escape their notice. They recognised the stickers of the forum too. The hooliganism started using filthy languages and they hit the cars with the rear ends of the flags. Perhaps that was the purpose of carrying so many flags. They were looking for me I was told later. In the last car social activist Sm. Bijoya Mukherjee faced the worst. While terrorising them with abuses the goons smashed the rear window.Finally they could escape the mob.
We, on the other hand had been waiting for them since we decided to move together and knew nothing about the incident. We came to know about it when the cars joined us.
We visited the police station. The O.C. was not available. It took us one and half hour to file the FIR and to take the case number. It was Math Chandipur PS. quite far from the city. It was the next day when I could find myself on my bed!!
This was what really happened.
In the morning we found a comment from one of our ministers. The comment called the incident "natural" since the intellectuals and the artistes visited the area to play a political game!
Saoli Mitra<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->