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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Left to protest attacks on farmers in Haroa

Left to protest attacks on farmers in Haroa

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published Published on Jul 10, 2011   modified Modified on Jul 10, 2011
-The Hindu
 
A joint committee of krishak sabhas (farmers' organisations) of four Left parties have given a call to their units across the State to observe “Haroa Diwas” on July 14.

It would be in protest against the police firing and attacks by armed Trinamool Congress activists on Saturday on farmers and sharecroppers who had returned to their land in the Haroa area of West Bengal's North Paraganas district after having earlier been evicted.

Processions and street-corner meetings would be organised to condemn the unabated attacks on farmers in different parts of the State as part of a concerted move to evict them from their plots, the committee said in a statement issued here on Sunday.

Tribals injured

Four persons, all tribals, were injured in the firing in Haroa, where, over the past few days, farmers, sharecroppers and pattadars (holders ofbargarights) had been agitating against attempts, allegedly by the Trinamool activists, to oust them from the land. They had been prevented from tilling their plots; hutments, set up by fishery-owners to guard fishing ponds, were set ablaze.

“Such attacks on farmers by the ruling party [Trinamool Congress] are being perpetrated in various parts of the State and taking an increasingly ugly turn,” the statement said.

Condemning the incident, Left Front Committee chairman Biman Bose said the State government was patronising, in Purulia, attempts to rob farmers of the rights they had earned during the Left Front tenure.

Left leaders observe that there is a concerted move to reverse the land reforms process that was initiated by the Left Front.

A delegation, led by the Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Surya Kanta Mishra, had visited Haroa on July 8 following reports of attacks on peasants there by Trinamool activists.

It had announced that those evicted should be allowed to return to their fields and that the police would have to ensure that their right to till their rightful lands were safeguarded.

The police firing and attacks had then occurred, when the farmers and sharecroppers returned to tend their fields.

According to Dr. Mishra, who is also a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), nearly 10,000 farmers, sharecroppers and pattadars had been evicted from the land by Trinamool supporters. He demanded that the government take immediate action to stop such violence.

The Hindu, 11 July, 2011, http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article2217294.ece


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