-Express News Service Even as the State government readies for land acquisition for the Posco steel project, the Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS), which is spearheading a movement against the project, has announced that it would oppose the process. To add to the woes, the United Action Committee (UAC), a pro-Posco outfit, has threatened not to cooperate with the Jagatsinghpur district administration for the land acquisition. PPSS president Abhay Sahu told...
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Singur hopes to get back 400 acres by Uttam Dutta
Manasi Manna of Singur hopes that Mamata Banerjee will return her one-acre plot, which had been acquired for the Nano project, after taking charge as chief minister. “My husband and I used to cultivate the land. We used to get three crops a year. We never had to worry about food. Everything came from that land. But after it was forcibly taken away for the small-car project, I have been forced...
More »Ghost of Marichjhapi returns to haunt by Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
It was the mother of all Nandigrams. If there was one Nandigram on March 14, 2007, then perhaps there were dozens of Nandigrams during the three-day cleanse-Marichjhapi operation in January 1979. “It was Saraswati Puja. The police were just raining bullets as soon as the refugees landed in our village! Like everybody else on the road, I, too, fled for safety as I could see people falling either injured or...
More »Where soft drink is easier to get than water by Abhijeet Chatterjee
It’s easier to get a bottle of soft drink than drinking water in Bankura’s Saltora. The CPM-controlled constituency is reeling from a severe water scarcity with the residents alleging that the Left has done precious little to provide purified drinking water in the area. Mrityunjoy Pandit, a 25-year-old resident of Saltora’s Ardhagram village, said the area had always faced water scarcity but this year it was acute because of the scanty rainfall...
More »Confident TMC & anxious Left shun Netai by Naresh Jana
A deathly silence hangs over Netai. In neighbouring areas, poll campaigning is on in full swing but the village where nine persons were killed in firing from a CPM camp on January 7, is untouched by it. The Trinamul Congress is not canvassing in Netai as it is “confident” that nobody will vote for the CPM in the area. The CPM, on the other hand, is avoiding campaigning in the area...
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