People's Democracy
(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
No.
23
June 05, 2011
|
Vol. XXXV
No.
23 June 05, 2011 |
Reign of
Terror Continues
The
one sided campaign of violence unleashed by Trinamool
Congress goons in the state of
Forcible
occupation of CPI(M) and trade union offices is
becoming widespread in these districts. CPI(M) leaders and activists
are being
threatened to leave their homes and its supporters are being asked to
pay
protection money in many villages.
Below
we give a list of attacks and incidents that have taken
place in the recent past in these districts.
IN PURULIA
May
24, 2011: In Purulia, the TMC miscreants attacked and beat up
Saraswati Sabar, vice chairperson of Napara gram panchayat. Later,
police
arrested local CPI(M) leader Umesh Mahato and Rabi Mahato on the false
allegation of keeping illegal arms. The local people protested the
police
action.
May
25, 2011: TMC hoodlums attacked and ransacked local CPI(M)
activist Kiran Maji’s house in Salboni village
under Tentlo gram panchayat of Balarampur. Maji was also beaten up
severely. When
taken to a local hospital, the TMC miscreants attempted to attack other
CPI(M) leaders
who visited, including Party zonal committee secretary concerned. In
Manbazar,
the residence of freedom fighter Bhabini Mahato was also ransacked.
IN
May
25, 2011: TMC goons looted the CPI(M) zonal committee office
in Khudiram Nagar in Haldia assembly
constituency area. They also captured another trade union office, Niren
Ghosh
Shramik Kalyan Sanstha near the dock. Already, a number of trade union
offices
were captured by the TMC goons in Haldia such as Tata Chemicals Union
Office,
two offices of the Tata Steel Union, IOC Union Office, Lalbaba Company
It is
apprehended that the
TMC goons will attack CPI(M) Haldia zonal
committee office (Sukumar Sengupta Bhawan).
The TMC
miscreants
captured CPI(M) Tamluk Gramin zonal committee
office. Chitta Khan, member of Matangini zonal committee of our party
was
severely beaten up by the TMC goons. They have also destroyed Party
Gourangapur
branch office under Nimtouri local committee.
On the same
day, TMC goons
looted and ransacked the CPI(M) local committee office in Laksha,
which falls in Mahisadal assembly constituency. The CPI(M)
local offices in Kasimnagar and Geonkhali were also targeted.
In Maishora village under Panskura West assembly
constituency area,
the TMC goons hurled bombs into the house of former chairman of Purba
Medinipur
Zilla Parishad, Niranjan Sihi on May 25. It may be recalled two CPI(M)
leaders,
Shamsad Ali, zonal committee member, and Kishore Pande, local committee
member,
were severely beaten up in Maishora on May 13. Their hands have been
fractured
and they suffered head injuries as well. They have been admitted to the
In
Kontai North: TMC goons have been threatening Party supporters in
No 2 gram panchayat of Egra in Bathuari and attacking the houses of
CPI(M) activists
and sympathisers. They have been ‘searching’ every house and
intimidating Party
workers. Two families were forced to leave their homes. On May 17, the
TMC
goons declared that some of the Party members had to pay Rs 12.5 lakh
as ‘fine’
if they wanted to stay in the village.
In
Ramnagar: TMC goons tried to put the Digha local committee and
two
other offices on fire. In Talgachhari, they beat up a zonal committee
member,
Arabinda Patra. The TMC miscreants captured the CPI(M) Jagatitala
branch
committee office.
In
Chandipur: TMC goons have occupied local Party office in Goalpukur
village under Bhagawanpur PS. Sambhunath Maity, a local Party leader
was
severely beaten up.
In
Khejuri: TMC miscreants severely beat up 7 to 8 people from
Harijanpalli. Out of them, the condition of Paban Ghorai is critical.
In Garang
village, Sachin Giri and other members of his family were beaten up.
The goons
also severely beat up people from eight families and threatened them to
leave
their homes. Papers and documents at two offices of the Party, in
Sherkhanchowk
and Dhangchurkunjatur, have been burnt. They also captured Party’s
Baratala
local committee office. In Dekhali village, local Party leader Dhiren
Bar was
also beaten up. The zonal committee office of the Party is forcibly
closed. In
Amdabad, they attacked our supporters while holding a procession.
In
Nandigram: TMC goons attacked and ransacked Reyapara local
committee office. They attacked the house of CPI(M) district committee
member, Sujata
Maity, and set it on fire. They assaulted Party sympathisers and
activists in
Brindabanchowk and West Birulia. About 65 people were forcibly vacated
from
their houses. Ajit Mandal of Birulia village, who was beaten severely
by these
goons, has been admitted to a hospital in Kolkata. Santosh Ranjit and
Sujoy
Ranjit of Amgechia village, Mahadeb Maity, Arjun Maity of Southkhali,
Satya Bag
of Brindabanchowk, Himangshu Gayen of Sonachura were also beaten up.
The TMC goons
forcibly
entered into Kabi Sukanta B.Ed College and hoisted the TMC flag over
the
college building. Asok Guria, a senior Party leader in the area, was
physically
assaulted. TMC miscreants captured Reyapara Gopalpur branch committee
office.
They are also planning to capture CPI(M) Reyapara zonal committee
office any day.
In
Patashpur: In Bharat gram panchayat area, CPI(M) activists
including
Shankar Majhi, in Paharpur three activists including Goursamata, and
two other
activists from Vonara village were attacked by TMC goons. In villages
of Madan
Mohanpur, Chandan Khali, Mathura, Balyagovindpur of Patashpur 2 block
and No.12
gram panchayat, villages of Ichhabari Siari, Jabda, Kakhuria, Mangal
Chowk,
Laya of No 15 gram panchayat and villages Mallikpur, Sukakhola,
Hinghibar and
Bamanbar under No 13 gram panchayat, widespread assault, arson and
destruction
have been carried out by these forces. They have locked Party
Southkhand local
committee office.
Anadinandan
Rath, a local
leader of the Party and an elected member of Purba Medinipur Zilla
Parishad is
forced to stay outside his house after it was ransacked by the TMC
goons.
In
Kontai P S: Laxman Paria and his wife of Petua-Pratap Pur
village were forced to leave their house due to threats of TMC goons.
The TMC
miscreants are also threatening CPI(M) activists and supporters in
villages
like Dahasonamui, Kalichowk, Fulbari, Basdebbaria, Baharchanberia,
Kasafalia,
Ghoraghata, Namaldiha.
In
Marishda P S: The TMC goons captured the Krishak Sabha office in
Marishda market and hoisted the TMC flag over it. They are terrorising
Party supporters
in villages like Chhoto Namai, Hari Gechhia and Sarpai village.
In
Mugaberia: CPI(M) Mugaberia zonal committee office is closed.
Almost all leading activists, including Party zonal committee secretary
have
been forced to leave their houses.
CPI(M) zonal
committee
offices in Patashpur, Pratapdighi, Magberia, Khejuri and Nandigram are
also closed.
Even distribution of Ganashakti has
been ‘banned’ by the TMC hoodlums.
IN
WEST MEDINIPUR
May
14, 2011: Barda local committee office under Ghatal zone, has
been locked by the TMC miscreants.
May
15, 2011: Vidyasagar local committee office under Birshingh
village has been locked after forcibly driving out Party workers from
the
office.
May
20, 2011: Samat branch office under Daspur-I has been
ransacked and the furniture inside damaged. After removing the CPI(M)
flag, the
flag of TMC has been hoisted by the TMC hoodlums.
May
20 to 27, 2011: Assaulting
the CPI(M) workers,
damaging the office furniture, threatening to kill two CPI(M) workers,
and
burning the CPI(M) flags have been the regular feature in this district
during
this period. Other disturbing activities are being done in a
pre-planned way by
TMC miscreants (who are often brought from outside) in different
villages –
such as Beleghata, Chandipur, Makarampur, Rajnagar, Sarberia,
Supapursuri, Hari
Rajpur and other adjoining villages under Dispur – I zone.
Beside these,
Sachi
Sasmal, a Narajole local committee member and Goal Bhunia party zonal
committee
member were brutally assaulted and threatened with dire consequences if
they do
not leave their homes.
Gopal
Adhikari, secretary of
Srinagar local committee under Chandrakona – I zone, has been forced to
come
out of the house and beaten brutally, later he has not been allowed to
even
undergo medical treatment.
May
23, 2011: TMC hoodlums hurled bombs into the Nandanpur local
committee
office and took away 3 motorcycles after locking the Party office.
May
25, 2011: Six permanent workers have been forcibly driven out
from the SIMA cold storage of Chandrakona – I and not allowed to joined
duty
since then. The gram panchayat office no 3 under Mohanpur Block has
been
ransacked by TMC workers without finding any valuable goods and it was
verified
by SDO.
May
26, 2011: The Ghatal College student union office run by the
elected SFI member has been locked by the TMC miscreants. They posted a
threat
to the SFI member. On the same day, CPI(M) workers inside the
Dewanchowk Party office
of Raghunathpur were severely beaten and the Party office has been
locked from outside.
The CPI(M) flag has been torched and the office has been forcibly
occupied. About
100 to 150 TMC miscreants assembled near Dakshin Borai School and
ransacked it by
alleging arms and weapons were stored in the school premises. CPI(M)
supporters
were physically manhandled and assaulted by the TMC miscreants under
the leadership
of Purna Jana, a local TMC leader. Similar strength crowd of TMC
miscreants
assaulted and threatened to kill Ramani Jana, district committee member
and
zonal committee secretary of Mohanpur.
May
27, 2011: The house of CPI(M) member and leader of district
Krishak Sangh, Sridam Bera of Basantapur, has been ransacked and
damaged. He was
brutally assaulted by the TMC miscreants. He has been hospitalised with
severe
head injury in the Midnapur Medical College Hospital.
Even women
ICDS workers
have not been spared, one of whom was severely beaten up and is now
admitted in
the Garbeta Hospital in a critical condition.
Four CPI(M)
workers) under
Goaltore zone have been brutally attacked. Their condition
being so serious that they have been
sent to Bankura Medical College Hospital.
On the same
day, May 27,
2011, the branch secretary of Maula, under Salboni Zone, Ajay Khorat,
was tied
to a tree and brutally beaten up by the TMC miscreants.The zonal
committee
member of CPI(M) Nimai Nayek has also been seriously injured by sudden
attack
of the TMC hoodlums.
At the all
party meeting
at Sabang on May 27, it was unanimously decided that, from now on all
violent incidents
and torture and atrocities will be stopped forthwith. Despite that
decision, in
the next 24 hours the TMC miscreants forcibly occupied the land of the
share
croppers, Sukumar Mandal and the Patta land of Madan Mandal and Jaba
Mandal of
Mallarpur village.
Just after
election, the
Srinagar local committee office of CPI(M) under Chandrakona – I has
been bolted
and locked by the TMC miscreants under the pretext that a huge cache of
arms
and ammunition has been dumped inside the party office. The police,
breaking
the lock barged into the office and no arms and ammunition was found,
except
two bullets, definitely thrown from outside. Obviously, it was a
pre-planned
conspiracy as the office has been closed for long period bolted with
lock and
was under TMC control.
CPI(M)
Offices Searched by Police without Warrants
1.
Keshpur ZC
office
2.
Kharagpur – I
ZC office
3.
Khakurda LC
office
4.
Bakhrabad LC
office
5.
Kultikri LC
office
6.
Sankrail ZC
office
7.
Jhargram Town
ZC office
8.
Jhargram
Rural ZC office
9.
Salboni ZC
office
10.
Bhadutala LC
office
11.
Amarpur LC
office
12.
Jhankra LC
office
13.
Basanchhora
LC office
14.
Anandapur LC
office
15.
Chhutargeriya
LC office
16.
Kharkushma LC
office which
was under the custody of TMC – since May 14, 2011
17.
Fulberiya LC
office
18.
Pirakata LC
office
19.
Kashijora LC
office
20.
Sultan LC
office where
some bag of unused 2-3 guns was found on the roof which was kept at
night by
TMC people.
21.
Pingla ZC
office (search
warrant) where 3 country-made
22.
Enayetpur LC
office
23.
Chandra LC
office
24.
Kankabati LC
office
25.
Dherua LC
office
26.
Sahaspur LC
office
Besides above
more than
two dozen of branch offices were also searched by the police similarly.
