11-13-2007, 08:34 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Advani lauds Guv, demands Art 355</b>'Centre mute spectator to Nandigram terror as it needs CPM support'
Leader of Opposition LK Advani on Tuesday night met West Bengal Governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi and urged him to send a report to the Centre on Nandigram recommending invocation of Article 355 or if necessary 356 against the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Government.
"We lauded the Governor for rendering a great service to the State and democracy by coming out with a correct and justified statement indicting the State Government for its handling of the Nandigram situation," Advani said.
"We requested the Governor to send a detailed report on Nandigram to the Centre urging for invocation of Article 355 directing the State Government to take proper action in Nandigram, or if directions were not abided by, apply Article 356 to dismiss the Government," Advani told mediapersons after calling on the Governor at Raj Bhavan.
The Opposition NDA on Tuesday night accused West Bengal's ruling CPI(M) of declaring a war on Indian State through its policy in Nandigram and charged the <b>UPA Government with being "Dhritarashtra-like inaction" on the issue.</b>
"The CPI(M) has declared war not only on the people of Nandigram but also on the Indian State. <span style='color:red'>Under the Dhritarashtra-like impotence of the Sonia-Manmohan dispensation, the CPI(M) has declared Nandigram a no-go area and established a Red Republic accountable to none,"</span> Leader of Opposition LK Advani said in a statement in New Delhi late on Tuesday night.
<b>"The CPI(M) has now let loose a reign of terror with their private army comprising history-sheeters.... Other hired killers and armed goons enjoying protection of the police and the State Government",</b> said Advani who had led a NDA delegation to Nandigram earlier in the day.
<b>"We heard of horrific reports of mothers being hacked to death before their children for the temerity to participate in a peace March", </b>he said.
Advani said the UPA Government was "helpless" to even ask CRPF to enter CPI(M)-held territories and restore rule of law. Even in insurgency-affected regions like Kashmir valley or the North East, the CRPF has not been chased away by a private army. But this happened in Nandigram".
He said the NDA would raise the issue in Parliament beginning Thursday to demand an explanation from the Centre for its "pathetic inaction".
Criticising the CPM for reacting with "frenzy" against Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi for his expression of anguish and pent-up pain, he said "it is a matter of time before they demand of their captive Government in Delhi that he should be recalled".
<b>Advani said NDA's was not a fact-finding mission to Nandigram because many "gruesome facts of CPI(M)'s reign of terror in that area are already known."</b>
<b>"Ours was a justice-seeking mission to press for justice for the victimised people of Nandigram and for those committed to peace and democracy in the State," </b>he said.
Earlier, on a whirlwind tour of this violence-torn area, Advani on Tuesday met fear-struck villagers, saw desolate houses and a disconsolate boy whose father was killed. He later said he had never seen this kind of terror in his long political career.
Addressing a rally after visiting a school which shelters those rendered homeless by violence, Advani accused the Left Front Government in West Bengal and the UPA dispensation at the Centre of being responsible for the violence in Nandigram. He also charged the Centre with inaction and indifference to violence because it depended on the support of the CPI(M).
Recalling his previous visit to Nandigram after the March 14 police firing and violence which left 14 people dead, Advani, leading a NDA delegation, said the police had fired then but "this time it was CPI-M goons who fired on the people.
<b>"The people had been forthcoming then but now an atmosphere of terror prevails here. In my long political career, I have never come across this kind of terror,"</b> he said.
Advani, accompanied by party colleague Sushma Swaraj and other members of the delegation, visited Adhikaripara which had witnessed violence and met refugees at Nandigram school.
<b>Most of the houses were deserted and not many people were seen on the roads when the NDA team went there travelling through Amgachi, Gokulnagar, Samsabad and Mahespur villages</b>.
The senior BJP leader said a boy told him that his mother was killed in front of him. "Ten women said that their husbands remained untraced. We will take up these issues with the Governor during our meeting with him in the evening," he said.
Some houses near Tekhalibazar which were empty and locked had a poster that read 'CPI-M-7.11.2007', reflecting the Marxist party's recapturing the place which was once a stronghold of Trinamool Congress-backed Bhumi Uchched Pratirodh Committee opposing acquisition of farmland for industries.
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The delegation went to see some houses which were torched at Adhikaripara. They walked for a kilometre as there was no motorable road and then turned back.
Advani said<b> "not only Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and the CPI(M) are to be blamed for what happened in Nandigram but the Central Government also did not act because it is taking the support of Marxists".</b>
<b>"No Central Minister nor the Chief Minister has cared to visit Nandigram," he said. He said the NDA would raise the Nandigram issue in the winter session of Parliament and meet the President. "We will fight so that you get justice," </b>Advani assured those who fled their homes and took shelter in the school.
Earlier in Kolkata, Advani said CPI(M) has 'nuked' the farmers of Nandigram.
"The CPI(M) might be obsessed with international issues and the nuclear deal but the nation is concerned about how the CPI(M) Government led by Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has nuked the farmers in Nandigram," he said.
"We believe that while a discussion on the nuclear deal is important, no less important is a discussion on Nandigram and the plight of farmers there," he said
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Leader of Opposition LK Advani on Tuesday night met West Bengal Governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi and urged him to send a report to the Centre on Nandigram recommending invocation of Article 355 or if necessary 356 against the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Government.
"We lauded the Governor for rendering a great service to the State and democracy by coming out with a correct and justified statement indicting the State Government for its handling of the Nandigram situation," Advani said.
"We requested the Governor to send a detailed report on Nandigram to the Centre urging for invocation of Article 355 directing the State Government to take proper action in Nandigram, or if directions were not abided by, apply Article 356 to dismiss the Government," Advani told mediapersons after calling on the Governor at Raj Bhavan.
The Opposition NDA on Tuesday night accused West Bengal's ruling CPI(M) of declaring a war on Indian State through its policy in Nandigram and charged the <b>UPA Government with being "Dhritarashtra-like inaction" on the issue.</b>
"The CPI(M) has declared war not only on the people of Nandigram but also on the Indian State. <span style='color:red'>Under the Dhritarashtra-like impotence of the Sonia-Manmohan dispensation, the CPI(M) has declared Nandigram a no-go area and established a Red Republic accountable to none,"</span> Leader of Opposition LK Advani said in a statement in New Delhi late on Tuesday night.
<b>"The CPI(M) has now let loose a reign of terror with their private army comprising history-sheeters.... Other hired killers and armed goons enjoying protection of the police and the State Government",</b> said Advani who had led a NDA delegation to Nandigram earlier in the day.
<b>"We heard of horrific reports of mothers being hacked to death before their children for the temerity to participate in a peace March", </b>he said.
Advani said the UPA Government was "helpless" to even ask CRPF to enter CPI(M)-held territories and restore rule of law. Even in insurgency-affected regions like Kashmir valley or the North East, the CRPF has not been chased away by a private army. But this happened in Nandigram".
He said the NDA would raise the issue in Parliament beginning Thursday to demand an explanation from the Centre for its "pathetic inaction".
Criticising the CPM for reacting with "frenzy" against Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi for his expression of anguish and pent-up pain, he said "it is a matter of time before they demand of their captive Government in Delhi that he should be recalled".
<b>Advani said NDA's was not a fact-finding mission to Nandigram because many "gruesome facts of CPI(M)'s reign of terror in that area are already known."</b>
<b>"Ours was a justice-seeking mission to press for justice for the victimised people of Nandigram and for those committed to peace and democracy in the State," </b>he said.
Earlier, on a whirlwind tour of this violence-torn area, Advani on Tuesday met fear-struck villagers, saw desolate houses and a disconsolate boy whose father was killed. He later said he had never seen this kind of terror in his long political career.
Addressing a rally after visiting a school which shelters those rendered homeless by violence, Advani accused the Left Front Government in West Bengal and the UPA dispensation at the Centre of being responsible for the violence in Nandigram. He also charged the Centre with inaction and indifference to violence because it depended on the support of the CPI(M).
Recalling his previous visit to Nandigram after the March 14 police firing and violence which left 14 people dead, Advani, leading a NDA delegation, said the police had fired then but "this time it was CPI-M goons who fired on the people.
<b>"The people had been forthcoming then but now an atmosphere of terror prevails here. In my long political career, I have never come across this kind of terror,"</b> he said.
Advani, accompanied by party colleague Sushma Swaraj and other members of the delegation, visited Adhikaripara which had witnessed violence and met refugees at Nandigram school.
<b>Most of the houses were deserted and not many people were seen on the roads when the NDA team went there travelling through Amgachi, Gokulnagar, Samsabad and Mahespur villages</b>.
The senior BJP leader said a boy told him that his mother was killed in front of him. "Ten women said that their husbands remained untraced. We will take up these issues with the Governor during our meeting with him in the evening," he said.
Some houses near Tekhalibazar which were empty and locked had a poster that read 'CPI-M-7.11.2007', reflecting the Marxist party's recapturing the place which was once a stronghold of Trinamool Congress-backed Bhumi Uchched Pratirodh Committee opposing acquisition of farmland for industries.
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The delegation went to see some houses which were torched at Adhikaripara. They walked for a kilometre as there was no motorable road and then turned back.
Advani said<b> "not only Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and the CPI(M) are to be blamed for what happened in Nandigram but the Central Government also did not act because it is taking the support of Marxists".</b>
<b>"No Central Minister nor the Chief Minister has cared to visit Nandigram," he said. He said the NDA would raise the Nandigram issue in the winter session of Parliament and meet the President. "We will fight so that you get justice," </b>Advani assured those who fled their homes and took shelter in the school.
Earlier in Kolkata, Advani said CPI(M) has 'nuked' the farmers of Nandigram.
"The CPI(M) might be obsessed with international issues and the nuclear deal but the nation is concerned about how the CPI(M) Government led by Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has nuked the farmers in Nandigram," he said.
"We believe that while a discussion on the nuclear deal is important, no less important is a discussion on Nandigram and the plight of farmers there," he said
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