People's Democracy
(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
No.
42
October 18, 2009
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Vol. XXXIII
No.
42 October 18, 2009 |
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OLICE investigations reveal that
the CPI (Maoist) has
plans afoot to assassinate
Speaking to People�s
Democracy, Biman Basu, state secretary of Bengal CPI(M) said that
the
�Trinamulis and all their associates, cohorts, lackeys and underlings,
here and
abroad, including the self-styled �Maoists� are planning all the while
to
assassinate our Party leaders and workers. �This,� said Biman �is a
condemnable
and comprehensively counter-democratic exercise.�
Biman continued to say that �the
present disclosure
clearly depicts that these reactionary forces and their patrons in the
ruling
classes and the big media, have not learnt any lesson, and are
continuing to
engage in nefarious acts of commission.
There is need to isolate them and identify them as the enemy of
the
people.�
KOLKATA
RENDEZVOUS
The �Maoists� confessed that
this time the fresh
�place of occurrence� has been chosen to be Kolkata city and its
surrounds for
the performance of the nefarious acts that these goons have carried out
with
impunity in Midnapore west in particular, in the past, especially the
recent
past.
The assassins organised and held
a series of meetings
very recently, probably last week, in a house (location unrevealed) in
downtown
Kolkata. At least one of the meetings
saw the national-level leaders of the criminals present including the
shadowy
figure of �Kishanji.� The �Maoists� came
to and went away from the rendezvous in luxury vehicles of a wealthy
and
well-known person who resides in the city and is known to have an
enormous
anti-CPI(M) frame of mind.
Incidentally, earlier reports
from the police sources
have already revealed that a couple of dozen-odd persons of the
metropolis have
kept close touch with the killers and have provided them not merely
with news
and views but leadership material as well.
Added to these �Maoist�-loving
individuals are at
least four political parties which act
as the goons� patrons and co-conspirators against the CPI(M) and the
Left Front
government, especially chief minister Buddhadeb. Names
and addresses of the individual patrons
of the murderers are now made known to the police who prefer not to go
public
at the moment.
MURDEROUS
PLAN
The entire plan to assassinate
Buddhadeb fulminated
over the past four months, we learn. The
action was to be led by Sasadhar Mahato, the ever-loving
brother-at-arms of the
Trinamuli goon Chhatradhar Mahato, and by Sasadhar�s wife �Suchitra�
who is a
hard-core member of the armed squad leadership of the �Maoists,� having
received arms training in neighbouring Jharkhand in the Giridih forests.
A question that is obvious for
the asking is the modus operandi of so many criminals
moving freely in the city, evading, even eluding, the extensive police
network,
particularly of the plainclothesmen belonging to the Special Branch
(SB), and
the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), plus the central agencies
like the
Intelligence Bureau (IB).
The police response borders on na�vet� but is plausible enough to be mentioned. It is noted that the criminals moved around
under cover of the protective kind a large number of anti-Communist
�intellectuals� and performing artistes whose photos, it needs mention,
deep in
consultation with Chhatradhar Mahato in the forest clearings of
Midnapore west,
have already appeared in the media.
ADJUTANTS
OF KILLERS
The police have of late taken
into custody two
individuals from Jadavpur who led and organised two pro-�Maoist�
outfits. The fora
are the �Lalgarh Solidarity Manch,� and the �Mass Resistance Manch.� At least one of the two criminals
interrogated has named the top floor of a multi-storied building at
Prafulla
Sarkar Street near to the place where the vast offices of the Patrika group is located, as a �safe
house� for the killers and their adjutants..
Another place of rendezvous has
been a building on
Lenin Sarani near where the office of a �political outfit� of sorts is
located,
and the outfit is known for its strong and violent antipathy towards
the CPI(M)
as well as for their oozing sympathy for the Trinamulis and the
�Maoists.� Always in attendance at the
meetings among
others were the brothers Sasadhar and Chhatradhar.
The latter is presently in jail custody after
having spent a week or so in police custody.
Meanwhile, on October 10, the
Trinamuli supremo gave a
long interview to her favourite channel Star
Ananda, an Anand Bazar Patrika
group affiliate. There she invited �Kishanji� for a �bi-lateral talk,�
and even
went so far as to say that the killers �have executed a series of good
work,�
without bothering to expand on her cryptic comments.
The chieftain once again spoke
of her opposition to
the security forces operations at and around Lalgarh.
The chief also pointed out that the killing
of the Trinamuli goon Nishikanta Mondal in Midnapore east was �probably
not the
work of �Maoists�.� We in this
connection remember that the �Maoists� have already expressed their
eagerness
to �see the Trinamuli leader as the
