11-13-2007, 02:38 AM
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Pioneer.com
Rakesh K Singh | New Delhi
Despite the Union Home Ministry rushing a battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to control violence in Nandigram, the paramilitary force is in a quandary in the absence of clear instructions from the West Bengal Government and is yet to make any headway in controlling the situation there.
<b>CPI(M) supporters prevented the CRPF personnel from entering Nandigram on Sunday night and the paramilitary force had to conduct a flag march on Monday for area domination. </b>
But even on Monday, CPI(M) cadre tried to chase away personnel of the paramilitary force. The CRPF did not try to resist for want of sanction from the State Government. <b>The party cadre had earlier prevented Red Cross team from entering the area and had reportedly harassed them.</b>
However, a PTI report said<b> CRPF personnel entered Garchakraberia and Tekhalibazar areas in troubled Nandigram after fresh violence broke out on Monday night</b>. Though no police confirmation of the violence was available, some BUPC members said CRPF personnel had entered some villages in the two areas.
Trinamool MLA Sisir Adhikari claimed the CRPF personnel were engaged in shootout with CPI(M) workers in Garchakraberia. However, no police confirmation of the incidents was available.
As many as five companies of the force were made available to the State Government by Sunday afternoon and they were deployed a few miles outside Nandigram. [are they show piece?]Â However, the force has not been given any specific orders of what they are expected to do and how things have to be done on the ground even as CRPF Director General SIS Ahmed has been camping there to supervise the operations.
<b>"It is a tricky situation in the area as we have been stationed at a place with no specific direction. Though we are holding talks but there is no progress," </b>said a senior CRPF official.
"Initial dithering by the Centre in sanctioning the paramilitary force by the Union Home Ministry was done in agreement with the State Government so that the armed cadre of the CPI(M) take control of Nandigram and opposition by the displaced people can be crushed by the Central force," said the official.
Senior officials informed that it is not the villagers who have taken up arms in Nandigram, but the dissidents of the ruling CPI(M) that are clashing with their own party cadre.
<b>"We do not think that Maoists are behind the violence at Nandigram but dissidents of the ruling party," </b>the official said adding the situation is more of a political problem than a law and order crisis.
<b>"Our hands are tied and we are not going in the area," said the officer, adding that the members of a political party have total control of Nandigram and they have been on rampage for the past few days. </b>
"Members of CPI(M) have blocked all the roads leading to the area and without a clear cut direction, we cannot do much on the ground," the officer added
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Pioneer.com
Rakesh K Singh | New Delhi
Despite the Union Home Ministry rushing a battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to control violence in Nandigram, the paramilitary force is in a quandary in the absence of clear instructions from the West Bengal Government and is yet to make any headway in controlling the situation there.
<b>CPI(M) supporters prevented the CRPF personnel from entering Nandigram on Sunday night and the paramilitary force had to conduct a flag march on Monday for area domination. </b>
But even on Monday, CPI(M) cadre tried to chase away personnel of the paramilitary force. The CRPF did not try to resist for want of sanction from the State Government. <b>The party cadre had earlier prevented Red Cross team from entering the area and had reportedly harassed them.</b>
However, a PTI report said<b> CRPF personnel entered Garchakraberia and Tekhalibazar areas in troubled Nandigram after fresh violence broke out on Monday night</b>. Though no police confirmation of the violence was available, some BUPC members said CRPF personnel had entered some villages in the two areas.
Trinamool MLA Sisir Adhikari claimed the CRPF personnel were engaged in shootout with CPI(M) workers in Garchakraberia. However, no police confirmation of the incidents was available.
As many as five companies of the force were made available to the State Government by Sunday afternoon and they were deployed a few miles outside Nandigram. [are they show piece?]Â However, the force has not been given any specific orders of what they are expected to do and how things have to be done on the ground even as CRPF Director General SIS Ahmed has been camping there to supervise the operations.
<b>"It is a tricky situation in the area as we have been stationed at a place with no specific direction. Though we are holding talks but there is no progress," </b>said a senior CRPF official.
"Initial dithering by the Centre in sanctioning the paramilitary force by the Union Home Ministry was done in agreement with the State Government so that the armed cadre of the CPI(M) take control of Nandigram and opposition by the displaced people can be crushed by the Central force," said the official.
Senior officials informed that it is not the villagers who have taken up arms in Nandigram, but the dissidents of the ruling CPI(M) that are clashing with their own party cadre.
<b>"We do not think that Maoists are behind the violence at Nandigram but dissidents of the ruling party," </b>the official said adding the situation is more of a political problem than a law and order crisis.
<b>"Our hands are tied and we are not going in the area," said the officer, adding that the members of a political party have total control of Nandigram and they have been on rampage for the past few days. </b>
"Members of CPI(M) have blocked all the roads leading to the area and without a clear cut direction, we cannot do much on the ground," the officer added
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