04-24-2008, 08:36 PM
<b>Nandigram people to fight CPM on their own</b>
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2008/20080424/nation.htm#2
Kolkata, April 23
The people of Nandigram today defied both Mamata Banerjee and state Congress president Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi and unanimously decided to fight together against the CPM in the coming panchayat polls on their own.
<b>The BJP, the SUCI, the CPI (M-L), the RJD, the Samajwadi Party and all other anti-CPM forces have agreed to lend their support to the Nandigram people. The RSP, one of the major partners of the Left Front, would these parties against the CPM.</b>
The local leaders of all anti-CPM parties took the decision at a meeting at Nandigram today. The panchayat elections would be held in three phases beginning May 11.
Candidates of the CPM and other Front parties had already filed their nomination papers for contesting zila parisad, panchayat samiti and anchal pradhan elections.
Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today met chief secretary A.K. Deb, home secretary Ashoke Mohan Chakraborty and DGP Anup Bhora at the Writers Buildings and discussed the preparations for the polls.
After the meeting, the home secretary said they had demanded one company of paramilitary forces from the Centre for its deployment in the state during the panchayat elections, but the demand was turned down.
He said the government was taking extra precautionary measures in the Naxalite-dominated areas of Purulia, Bankura, Birbhum, Midnapore and Burdwan, where several CPM workers and their supporters were killed by Maoists recently.
He said superintendents of police were told to identify specific areas where major disturbances were apprehended during the polls and accordingly the forces would be deployed.
CPM state secretary Biman Bose alleged today that there was an unholy alliance of communal and reactionary forces against the CPM, but still the party would win the maximum number of seats in the three-tier panchayat polls.
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2008/20080424/nation.htm#2
Kolkata, April 23
The people of Nandigram today defied both Mamata Banerjee and state Congress president Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi and unanimously decided to fight together against the CPM in the coming panchayat polls on their own.
<b>The BJP, the SUCI, the CPI (M-L), the RJD, the Samajwadi Party and all other anti-CPM forces have agreed to lend their support to the Nandigram people. The RSP, one of the major partners of the Left Front, would these parties against the CPM.</b>
The local leaders of all anti-CPM parties took the decision at a meeting at Nandigram today. The panchayat elections would be held in three phases beginning May 11.
Candidates of the CPM and other Front parties had already filed their nomination papers for contesting zila parisad, panchayat samiti and anchal pradhan elections.
Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today met chief secretary A.K. Deb, home secretary Ashoke Mohan Chakraborty and DGP Anup Bhora at the Writers Buildings and discussed the preparations for the polls.
After the meeting, the home secretary said they had demanded one company of paramilitary forces from the Centre for its deployment in the state during the panchayat elections, but the demand was turned down.
He said the government was taking extra precautionary measures in the Naxalite-dominated areas of Purulia, Bankura, Birbhum, Midnapore and Burdwan, where several CPM workers and their supporters were killed by Maoists recently.
He said superintendents of police were told to identify specific areas where major disturbances were apprehended during the polls and accordingly the forces would be deployed.
CPM state secretary Biman Bose alleged today that there was an unholy alliance of communal and reactionary forces against the CPM, but still the party would win the maximum number of seats in the three-tier panchayat polls.