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Bengal is now an extended fishery where muscle power is the ultimate decider.Fishery power has inflicted Bhadralok Bengal and political violence knows no bound despite the so called departure of gestapo and harmad marxist branded. The green fishery brigade has taken over.Bhangar violence warns of bloody run-up to rural polls!


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Bhangar violence warns of bloody run-up to rural polls!The government of west bengal has been consistently denying deaths due to hunger. But food security remains a sustained threat despite Paribartan. As Bengal is now transformed into a fierce battleground of elite power politics the theme of hunger and the works of Hore present a vertical contrast.Nevertheless, entire Bengal is now an extended fishery where muscle power is the ultimate decider.Fishery power has inflicted Bhadralok Bengal and political violence knows no bound despite the so called departure of gestapo and harmad marxist branded. The green fishery brigade has taken over.Fishery muscle powerhouse TMC leader Arabul Islam has become the blue eyed boy for the party as Mamata Banerjee convenes a ministerial meeting right in the Writers in his defence  and the big guns of the party including four ministers went to Bamunghata in South 24 Parganas district to launch a Mahbharat a fressh and issued threats to finish CPIM within five minutes!At least three CPI (M) workers sustained bullet injury among many injured as a major political clash broke out today after TMC workers allegedly attacked supporters of CPI (M), en route to Kolkata for a party rally.The incident took place after TMC workers allegedly stopped vehicles carrying Left supporters, headed for Kolkata for their protest demonstration against the alleged assault of CPI (M) leader Rezzak Mollah, a former state minister, by TMC MLA Arabul Islam.The Opposition alleged that Islam was engaged in today’s violence too near Bamanghata in South 24 Paraganas and he led the firing on CPI (M) supporters.However,Arabul Islam, who was also admitted in a hospital after the violence, however, denied the the allegations. His son Hakibul Islam claimed, CPI (M) rather attacked Arabul Islam.


"Had our leader Mamata Banerjee not given a call before the Assembly election in 2011 for change and not revenge, the CPI(M) would not have existed in West Bengal," senior TMC leader and Transport minister Madan Mitra told a rally at the scene of yesterday's violence.

"Trinamool Congress is against using bombs and guns. If you ask why we do not want it, I will say it is because had we wanted it, the CPI(M) would not existed after five minutes," Mitra said.

"TMC wants peace. This is our last meeting here. If the CPI(M) resorts to violence again, it will have to take the responsibility to maintain peace," he said.

"If the CPI(M) tries to incite riots and people get enraged and come out of their homes with big lathis then what will we do?" he asked.


"Arabul is a vibrant young man. If he gets beaten up by the CPI(M), will the people sit at home and eat rasgollas? We are behind Arabul. If necessary the entire party leadership will be here to stand beside him," he said.

Mitra also criticised a section of the media.

The rally was attended by the TMC top brass, Industry minister Partha Chatterjee, Urban Development minister Firhad Hakim and all India General Secretary Mukul Roy who later went in a procession.

The decks are clear for the north-westerly wind to blow into the city once more, according to the Alipore weather office. It had been blocked by a western disturbance last week, leading to a brief warm spell. Now, the mercury is set to slide by a couple of degrees and could hover around 10°C over the next two days. Alipore recorded a minimum temperature of 12.2°C on Monday.However, the  political north-westerly wind is blowing very fast chilling down spines!If you felt the chill on Tuesday, get ready to shiver some more over the next 48 hours.The whole of West Bengal, in fact, will be in the grip of cold conditions during the next 48 hours. The Met office has issued a cold wave warning for both south and north Bengal.

Contrarily, as the rural panchayat polls are quite imminent, the political weather in Bengal is very very hot.After a brief warm spell, Kolkata woke up to a chilly and windy morning on Tuesday. Woollens were out once more and the crowd was back at the city's favourite winter spots - the Maidan, Victoria Memorial, Alipore Zoo and Nicco Park. Shops selling winter garments did brisk business yet again. At the Subodh Mullick Square, the crowd at the winter garments stalls spilled on to the street.
The attack on CPM veteran Abdur Rezzak Mollah has bared the underbelly of the gory politics in the bheri lands (wetlands) of South 24-Parganas.Bhangar, a mere 28km from the city, was under the writ of Mollah's party for years. Now, Trinamool Congress strongman Arabul Islam calls the shots.Arabul, a former MLA, is the prime accused in the attack on Mollah - yet another criminal charge in a long list of pending cases, from criminal intimidation to attempt-to-murder. According to police, none of the cases have been dropped though Arabul has got bail in some.



Meanwhile, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who has been keeping unwell, rushed to the state secretariat to take stock of the situation.The Trinamool chief - who showed "zero tolerance" to pay leaders Meer Taher Ali and the others who swayed with girls and showered money on them at the party's foundation day at Bhangar - has been bearing with Arabul for long. Is it because Mamata needs Arabul for the coming panchayat polls?

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“Khub kharap (very bad),” chief minister Mamata Banerjee said while leaving Writers’ on Tuesday. The chief minister was not referring to the state of affairs in Bengal but replying to a question on her fever which had confined her to her home till the Bhangar flare-up cut short her rest. “It appears to be viral fever. If one doesn’t put on socks, then there is a possibility of catching cold. Then there is tremendous pressure on me,” she added. Picture by Pabitra Das
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Questioning West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's silence over the recent incidents of violence in the state, CPI(M) state secretary Biman Bose Wednesday accused her of forgetting her duty and termed it a dangerous trend.

"Why is she silent over the recent incidents of violence? It is really surprising that she is keeping mum on all the incidents of violence from assault on MLA Rezzak Mollah to firing on CPI(M) cadres by Trinamool goons. This is a dangerous trend," Bose, told a rally to protest the violence at Bamunghata in South 24 Parganas district yesterday.



"She should not forget that she is a chief minister. But she is acting as if she is the chief minister of only the Trinamool Congress," Bose said.

Former chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya also took part in the rally.

Meanwhile, TMC's father-son MPs from East Midnapore district, Shishir and Suvendu Adhikari on Monday appealed to the party workers to begin Operation CPI(M) from Nandigram, the Waterloo of the previous Left Front government led by Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee. Speaking at a rally, the junior Adhikari clearly said the time has come to erase the CPI(M) ahead of the panchayat elections. The senior Adhikari termed the CPI(M) as a lot of rats. The battle of Bengal is getting intense as the state inches towards the next panchayat elections. Former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee, during his visit to Mollah in the hospital on Tuesday, said the current trend in Bengal politics is a dangerous one but the problem is: Such a trend of reactionary and revengeful politics had started when his former party led the ruling coalition in the state for over three decades.


Earlier, West Bengal Left Front Committee chairman and CPI (M) State secretary Biman Bose had commented that the Trinamool was using violence to stifle “the voice of the Opposition.”

Bhangar has become politically volatile since last week over clashes between the rival parties seeking to capture political turf ahead of the coming panchayat polls in the state.

The Trinamool Congress on Wednesday blamed the CPI(M) for the violence at Bamunghata in South 24 Parganas district, with a party minister saying that the Marxist party would not have existed had not the TMC given a call for change.


Ambassador of Norway to India, Eivind S Homme, will inaugurate a week long art exhibition on the theme of Hunger by Somnath Hore.The inauguration will be followed by dramatized readings by Jayant Kripalani from Knut Hamsun’s Hunger.

Series of films from across the world on the theme of Hunger will also be screened.

The exhibition will be inaugurated on Sunday as part of European Literature - New Voices from the Old World, Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival 2013’s closing programme.

The art exhibition, a celebration of the artistic and literary genius of Knut Hamsun and Somnath Hore will run through the week till Jan 19.

Knut Hamsun (August 4, 1859 – February 19, 1952) was a Norwegian author, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920.

Hamsun is considered to be "one of the most influential and innovative literary stylists of the past hundred years”, and his works are studied and researched the world over.

The West Bengal unit of BJP today met Governor M K Narayanan to demand deployment of the army at Bhangore in South 24 Parganas district, the scene of violence in the last few days between the CPI(M) and TMC.

“Under Trinamool Congress the police can’t function impartially. We request you to look into the matter so that both Trinamool leader Arabul Islam and CPI(M) leader Rezzak Mollah are booked under the law for creating and inciting violence,” the BJP said in a memorandum to Narayanan.

“We request you to see that army is deployed in Bhagore area in order to contain the violence that is taking place among both the parties,” the memorandum said.

The BJP also requested the governor to convince the state government to initiate a CBI inquiry into the self immolation of Mir Aminul Islam, after being harassed by the police when he took a rape victim to file a complaint.

A CPM rally headed for Kolkata was attacked by Trinamool Congress men in trouble-torn Bhangar on Tuesday morning, triggering a fierce clash on Basanti highway near Bamanghata bazaar, less than 2km from the offices of an IT major and barely 12km from the tourist hotspot of Science City on EM Bypass.Eleven vehicles burnt for hours and at least five CPM men were critically injured, including one with a bullet in his chest. A local who got caught in the fierce brickbatting has sustained serious head injuries.Firearms and stones were used in clashes that took place in Bhangar block of South 24-Parganas district, leaders of both parties claimed. The Left Front apprised Governor MK Narayanan of the "lawlessness" and the government's "inhuman" attitude following Bhangar violence. State Congress chief Pradip Bhattacharya said his party was "extremely worried" over the deteriorating law and order and it would ask the Union Home Ministry to send a special team to assess the situation.

Nevertheless,State Parliamentary Affairs Minister Partha Chatterjee alleged that CPI(M) activists, who were on their way in a convoy of cars to attend a demonstration, attacked Trinamool Congress workers with firearms. He said that Trinamool Congress workers would take to the streets everyday after 6 pm from January 10-18 to protest the "conspiracy" by the CPI(M), the Congress and two news channels to incite the public and create "lawlessness".


The recent war of words over who could stoop to the filthiest in Bengal has erupted in an inferno that threatens to make the run-up to the panchayat polls as bloody as the one in 2008 — if not worse. A Left delegation met Governor M K Narayanan in the evening to register their protest. "He condemned the violence and assured us that he will look into the incident," leader of the opposition Mishra said. Chief minister Mamata Banerjee got up from sick bed and rushed to Writers' Buildings to take stock of the situation.

When TOI reached the spot around 2.30pm, the violence had ebbed, but a 1-km stretch looked like a war zone. Smoke rose from the 11 charred vehicles, mostly mini-trucks used to ferry CPM supporters. Nine more vehicles had been damaged, among them the black SUV used by Arabul. Bricks and stones littered the area so thickly that you couldn't walk a few steps without stumbling on one. At Bamanghata bazaar, several motorcycles parked before the Trinamool office lay smashed by CPM cadres. Trinamool posters and flags were torn and scattered about. Shop-owners had long downed shutters.Times of India reports.

Bhangar was on a knife's edge ever since the attack on Mollah on Sunday. The stage was set for violence with the CPM convoy bound to pass through Arabul's stronghold. Though both parties made conflicting allegations, locals say Arabul and other Trinamool workers who had assembled at the Bamanghata bazaar party office were the first to strike.

At a time West Bengal government will be wooing business community in the investors meet in Haldia next week to do away with state's anti-industry image, the ruling Trinamool Congress is scheduled to carry on state-wide demonstrations against alleged political violence by opposition Left.
In the context of recent political clashes between TMC and Left that yesterday culminated in open firing on streets in the outskirts of Kolkata leaving many injured, ruling party has announced to organise demonstrations across the state to counter Left rallies.Business Standard reports.

“CPI-M and a section of media is trying to instigate violence in the state. To protest, we will organise demonstration against them from January 10-18. There will be public meetings, rallies after 6 pm throughout these days,” West Bengal Industry minister and senior TMC leader Partha Chatterjee said.

Incidentally, TMC's protest will coincide with sate government's annual industrial meet, Bengal Leads, scheduled January 15-17.

Also, ironically the announcement came from Chatterjee, who is in the forefront of organising the industrial meet being state's industry and commerce minister. This perhaps prompted the industry minister to add, “During demonstrations we will see there is no inconvenience to people.”

Violence broke out at a CPI (M) rally on Tuesday at Bamunghata in South 24 Parganas district in West Bengal as Trinamool Congress workers clashed with CPI (M) cadres.The CPM supporters were going to attend a rally to protest Sunday’s attack on Marxist leader Abdur Rezzak Mollah, CPI(M) leader Kanti Ganguly said.

Ganguly alleged that the Left supporters were attacked and eight of their vehicles were set on fire by TMC workers.Left sources also claimed that three persons received bullet injuries and were admitted to hospital.

TMC leader Arabul Islam, accused by the CPI(M) of of leading the attack against Mollah on Sunday, counter claimed that his car was fired on allegedly by Marxist workers who tried to kill him as a result of which he fell off and was rescued by party workers.

Superintendent of Police Pravin Tripathi, when asked, admitted that some incidents had take place, but could not give details immediately.

“Three people who suffered bullet injury are serious. Many others have been injured and have been admitted in the hospital There is no word of condemnation from the TMC or civil administration. This shows they have support from the top,” CPI (M) leader Mohammed Salim said. About 10 vehicles were set on fire during the clash.

Agitated over state government response to the incident, Opposition leader Suryakanta Mishra sought governor’s intervention in the matter.

Several motorcycles parked in front of the TMC office at Bamanghata Bazaar were ransacked while Islam's own SUV was also among the 11 damaged vehicles, most of which were mini-trucks carrying the CPI(M) supporters. TMC posters and flags were also torn while local shop-owners downed their shutters. Both parties were blaming each other for the assault. However, no matter whoever was the aggressor, political observers feel that the state's politics will witness a violent phase in the run-up to the rural polls due in a few months time. If indeed turns out to be true, it will be a repetition of the 2008 when the then Left Front government was fast losing its grip on the state and the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC was making serious inroads in the wake of the Singur agitation and Nandigram violence.

The condemnation of Arabul across political lines has come as a ray of hope to a woman from Bhangar, who was driven out of her home and hearth in August and forced to take shelter in New Town, Rajarhat, with her husband.

"Some men, led by Arabul, beat me up at Satulia bazar in front of everyone, tore off my sari and blouse, and attacked my private parts. They dragged me to the local dumping ground thinking I was dead. That was on August 28," she told TOI on Monday. She went to Kashipur police station to lodge a complaint but in vain. "Police did not initiate an inquiry till I moved Alipore court. On hearing my complaint, the chief judicial magistrate directed the officer-in-charge to start a case," she said.

While the traumatized woman had to wait till October for the police to start an inquiry, the man who is accused of "leading the attack" is unfazed. "I do not know of any such complaint. You can check with the local police," said Arabul.

Kashipur Police, however, recognised the complaint. "Yes, a complaint was made by (TOI is withholding the name) though her injury report doesn't confirm all the elements of the complaint, or Arabul's having a hand in it," a police officer said. But he has not sent the report to the court, saying the complaint is untrue.

The entire episode goes against the chief minister's directive to police to take a complaint as and when a victim comes to the police station.

However, the rules of the game changed when a woman known to Arabul went to Kashipur police station to complain about a family dispute. While the sub-inspector on duty took a few minutes to record the complaint, Arabul angrily stepped into the police station and slapped the officer. This was within days of the molestation complaint lodged against the Trinamool leader. As usual, the police officer bore with the assault.

Student hit by bullet: Doctors

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Calcutta, Jan. 8: The government was collecting information till late tonight but doctors told The Telegraph in the evening that a bullet hit a Class XI student from Bhangar.
The bullet pierced through the chest of Sujit Das, according to the doctors. Das, bleeding profusely, was taken to a private hospital off EM Bypass at 2.10pm.
“Das has been admitted with bullet injury on the left side of the chest. His condition is serious and he is being treated in the critical care unit,” said an official at R.N. Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences, Mukundapur.
The 18-year-old was kept under observation and was conscious, the doctors said.
“Entry and exit wounds of the bullet were detected on the left side of the chest. The bullet apparently pierced through his body but fortunately there was no major damage to any organ. Had the bullet stayed inside, things would have been more critical,” the official said.
A CT scan revealed no fragments of the bullet inside the body. “There was no foreign body found in the CT scan report. Further examinations will be conducted tomorrow,” the official said.
According to him, the bullet brushed past the rib cage — the reason for escaping graver injury.
“He won’t undergo a surgery tonight unless there is an emergency. As of now, he’ll be kept under observation,” said Arup Ghosh, consultant cardio-thoracic surgeon at the hospital.
Police sources said Das was hit by a stray bullet. “He was a bystander and was hit by the bullet accidentally,” said an official of Bhangar police station.
Residents said he was a commerce stream student of Class XI at Bhangar High School, and an activist of the SFI, the students’ wing of the CPM.




Bengal on a knife's edge
TNN | Jan 9, 2013, 05.30 AM IST

KOLKATA: Buses and goods carriers set ablaze on the Kolkata-Basanti highway that links the Congnizant Technology Solutions (CTS) office at the Kolkata Leather Complex to the city. The scary scene and lack of transport is something techies have never faced on their way to offices in other parts of the country.

Politicians seem unfazed. They are busy spitting fire in the media with complaints and counter-complaints while their followers keep on whipping sentiments. And the developments come days before the state organizes the Bengal Leads programme in Haldia to woo investment.

"Where is the state heading to? Real issues like price rise and employment are taking a back seat. It is a disgusting situation. We all feel let down. Is this what we are leaving behind for our younger ones?" says writer Bani Basu. The disgust has spread in the city. "Criminals in all political parties are having a free run. Political leaders are lacking trust among their followers. They can't control mob frenzy. It is a state of anarchy. The administration should round up the criminals first. I feel disarmed with the developments in Bhangar and Barasat. Maybe, it is the time to raise the demand for right to recall public representatives," said Basu.

Unfortunately, the chief minister has fuelled the lack of trust by throwing her weight behind the accused Arabul Islam. Taking the cue, senior ministers led by Partha Chatterjee and Subrata Mukherjee went into a combative mood losing sight of the fact that they are in government. They announced a political programme from the prime seat of administration. On the other hand, the veteran CPM MLA, languishing in a private hospital with injuries on his vertebrae, had incited his followers to take on the police wherever they can.

The violence that has eclipsed the civil society has its roots in the decadent culture of verbal violence cultivated by crass comments from politicians of different shades - Benoy Konar, Anisur Rehman, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Kalyan Banerjee, Subhendu Adhikary, Jyotipriya Mullick - in a desperate bid to charge up the support base. Now, people seem reconciled to the continuing violence that has become routine in the run up to the panchayat polls. It has its roots since the panchayat polls in 2003 and 2008 when the state witnessed massive violence in rural Bengal.

Recounting the clashes in the Gosaba-Basanti areas in South 24-Parganas, RSP leader Kshiti Goswami said that as many as 80 people were killed during the Left Front regime out of intra-Front rivalry. "It is time for introspection for the Left at least. There is no denying the fact that we fell victims to some vested interests who were out to retain power at any cost even if the Left don't approve it. It gave birth to a bunch of power hungry men who used the political parties for their narrow gains. Else, why should the poor people in Bhangar, Haroa, or elsewhere in the state clash among each other? The Trinamool regime is even worse. It has given a free licence to hooligans who are out to smother the dissenting voice," the RSP leader said.

Victim Abdur Rezzak Mollah enjoyed the hegemony for all these days till Trinamool's Arabul Islam tried the same trick to capture the money-spinner bheris in South 24-Parganas. The latest is the continuing clash over the Daktar Bheri where the Trinamool and the CPM are at war to establish their hegemony. "We are caught in the clashes that will continue till one party marginalizes the other," said Habibar Rahman Mollah of Satulia village in Bhangar.

Going by what Habibar said, the spate of showdown and counter-showdown, michhil and counter michhil, that will start all over the state from Wednesday and continue till January 18, is actually a drill to tilt the political scale for the coming panchayat polls and also the Assembly bypolls in Nalhati, Rejinagar and Englishbazar.
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Shubham Ghosh writes:

When the Left came to power in the state in 1977, the Congress, which was the only opposition then, was in a shambles like in the rest of the country. The all-encompassing party machinery and the leadership of Jyoti Basu made the opposition virtually non-existent in the state politics for a long time. Mamata Banerjee was the only voice of opposition in the state and formed her own party, the TMC, after quitting the Congress but it was impossible for her to challenge the mighty Left machinery as we saw how her party was drubbed in the 2001 and 2006 assembly elections. The Left was a force that nobody could dare to challenge in those days. The party's totalitarian machinery had made every nook and corner of the society in its own sphere of influence and it was a barren land for any opposition daring to dream about a Bengal free from the Left's clasp. Opposition supporters were afraid to contest elections as ruling party members intimidated them regularly. Left candidates used to win elections by margins that made a mockery of democracy. It was only a party dictatorship that had ruled the state under the guise of democracy. Death of skilled managers like Anil Biswas and powerful leaders like Subhash Chakrabarti besides the exit of the patriarch, Jyoti Basu, made the CPI(M)'s organisational strength weak and when an inefficient leadership made a blunder in Singur and Nandigram in the name of initiating industrialisation, Mamata and her party had found more than a chance to retaliate. The mammoth structure of the Left began to decline in the 2007-08 period following the Nandigram firing and despite the CPI(M)'s claims that the land acquisition controversy in Singur would not influence the panchayat elections of 2008, it suffered a blow that shook its powerful roots and established that it was beyond the capacity of a weakening cadre-based party to negate the strong anti-incumbency mood. The slide became more prominent in the subsequent polls and following the reverses in the 2009 Lok Sabha polls, the Left Front government was finally toppled in 2011. Whether Mamata had any major role in scripting the tale of the CPI(M)'s fall is a different debate. But what is clear in the post-Left Front era is that the TMC chief and her supporters mastered the political style of the CPI(M) perfectly. The only difference is that the new counter-force that has been unleashed in the state post-2011 is not as totalitarian as its predecessor was and many a time, it is going out of control of its own makers. The problem with the TMC is that it has more leaders than cadres and no matter what Mamata Banerjee claims about her following the Rajdharma (royal duty), there is little in her control. The party, bereft of any ideology and organisation, has no direction to move and its single-minded leaders who just believe in 'Hate CPI(M)' mantra, have no constructive business to pursue. Ministers in Mamata's government are more busy accusing and abusing the CPI(M), even when the latter is in a shambles, and there is little distinction between the party and the government. This is just a mirror reflection of what had happened in the Left regime when the rulers of the day openly threatened to crush the opposition. There is eventually no change. No wonder. A change comes only when there is a culture alive to strive for it. The onus is entirely on Mamata Banerjee for her party and administration have no second voice or authority. The party-centric Left regime had seen a gradual decline but the individual-centric TMC days will be ended the moment Mamata Banerjee retires. As a common Bengali, I appeal to her, who is a successful mass leader but a failed administrator, to start contemplating on the future political strategy of her party and government. She has dashed all hopes in less than two years and the shocked citizens of the state, who had expected a change in 2011, will find it difficult to digest the misrule for over three years now. Option? Mamata should acknowledge that the administration is not her cup of tea and step down from power. Let President's Rule be imposed and fresh elections are held. Anyways, the way the state's politics is heading towards disaster, President's Rule is not a distant reality.

Read more at: http://news.oneindia.in/feature/2013/dont-imitate-left-politics-mamata-better-you-quit-1127844.html
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    Bonfire of the big bluff

    Arson and violence on Arabul terrain blow up in face of nonchalant govt

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    Calcutta, Jan. 8: Vehicle after vehicle stood burning or vandalised on a road not too far from Calcutta shortly before noon today, sending up in smoke the Trinamul leadership’s description of political violence as “drama”.
    At least one teenager suffered a bullet injury in the flare-up at South 24-Parganas’ Bhangar, which was sitting on a powder keg for the past two days after a CPM veteran was assaulted but evoked either derision or silence from the Trinamul leadership.
    The nonchalance gave way to a scramble today as television channels beamed across the country images of the vehicles in flames in a state that is holding an investors’ meet, titled Bengal Leads, next week in Haldia. Such was the jolt that chief minister Mamata Banerjee cut short a fever-enforced rest and reached Writers’ Buildings.
    As many as eight vehicles carrying CPM supporters bore the brunt of the torching skills of a crowd, said to be packed with Trinamul supporters, on the outskirts of Calcutta today. More vehicles, from both sides, were damaged: 16 vans ferrying CPM supporters and three cars and as many motorbikes belonging to Trinamul supporters.
    The flare-up was the culmination of the clashes marked by the assault on CPM legislator and former minister Abdur Rezzak Mollah on Sunday.
    Perceived compulsions before the upcoming panchayat polls had made the Trinamul leadership look the other way on Sunday’s assault, blamed on the party’s former MLA Arabul Islam. Some ministers had termed the hospitalisation of Mollah a “drama”.
    Although industries minister Partha Chatterjee called on Mollah with a bouquet of flowers yesterday, the effort was seen as a half-hearted damage-control bid in the absence of an unequivocal statement condemning violence.
    The worst fears came true this forenoon. Mini-trucks ferrying Left supporters to a rally in Calcutta to protest the assault on Mollah were damaged or burnt at Bhangar’s Bamanghata, 25km from Calcutta.
    The attack was allegedly led by Arabul, the Trinamul strongman accused of hitting Mollah.
    Arabul has been admitted to a private hospital after the former MLA said he was beaten up by the CPM cadres. Doctors said there were no external injuries but Arabul had high blood pressure.
    Pradip Mandal, the working president of the Bhangar Block II Trinamul party unit, said he saw “CPM cadres emptying the vehicles and damaging or setting them on fire.”
    Witnesses said some CPM cadres did storm the Trinamul office after the arson attack.
    The claims and counter-claims are unlikely to be settled conclusively in a state known for deeply polarised politics. But Mamata had come to power promising change from a political culture that thrived on intimidation.
    Besides, had the government and the ruling party condemned in one voice Sunday’s violence, it would have been easier to convince people that Tuesday’s lawlessness was the handiwork of the Opposition.
    At 11.30am, a convoy of vehicles carrying CPM activists was passing by the Trinamul office. Bombs were hurled and shots fired from the direction of the Trinamul office, where Arabul and supporters were present, according to the witnesses.
    “We were sipping tea at a roadside shop. We saw a good number of vehicles moving towards Calcutta from the Bhangar side. We heard gunshots and the sound of bombs. They were flying towards the vehicles,” a witness said.
    “Within minutes, we saw local Trinamul activists coming out of the party office and instructing their men to attack. Some CPM cadres were running for cover,” he added.
    A little later, Trinamul men armed with iron rods smashed up the vehicles. Police confirmed the number of vehicles affected but did not say who was responsible.
    Fearing trouble, the police were on standby but some witnesses said the personnel either stood idle or slipped away when the attack started.
    Younis Sardar, a CPM local committee member, told The Telegraph at R.N. Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences: “We were in a Tata Sumo. The police stopped us a little before Bamanghata for about 30 minutes, saying that a meeting led by Arabul was on at their party office.
    “Then they let us pass, saying that the meeting was over. But just after some vehicles had passed the Bamanghata market, Trinamul men began hurling bombs and shot at us. Then they started beating us up.” Sardar said he had to crawl under the Sumo and later roll into a nearby canal to escape.
    The witnesses said that by then, 20-odd CPM activists came out of their vehicles, barged into the Trinamul party office and ransacked it. Two of the vandalised cars, a Scorpio and a Santro, belonged to Arabul, Trinamul said. The Santro is normally used by Arabul’s son.
    A police officer said in response to a question: “It all began when Arabul and his men attacked the CPM activists.” The officer added that the CPM men had retaliated by attacking the Trinamul office. “But we are not sure whether they fired at Trinamul activists,” he said.
    State transport minister Madan Mitra said some Trinamul supporters could have been involved in “the spontaneous outburst of people’s anger against the CPM”.
    The police said 16 persons were arrested till tonight. “We will not specify what their political affiliations are,” a senior officer said. “Let’s just say it’s all-inclusive.”
    Chief secretary Sanjay Mitra said an inquiry would be conducted. “Only the probe will reveal if at all any firing had taken place,” he said.



     

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