Prosen Sam is a beneficiary of land reforms. Once a landless labourer, his life changed after the Left Front government gave him a three-bigha plot in 1984. “I am still a farmer but my sons have their own businesses,” boasted the 65-year-old resident of Kurumba village in Birbhum, a proud participant in Friday’s rally by the Left Front’s farmer wings in Metro Channel. The meeting, attended by around 4,000 people from across...
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Bihar surprise: Biggest landslide with smallest share of votes
The Nitish Kumar-led JD(U)-BJP alliance has won more than four-fifths of the Bihar assembly seats, but there is one unusual aspect to this landslide. The alliance got a little less than two-fifths of the votes cast. Why should this be unusual? Check out the accompanying chart and you will find that other wins of similar magnitude in terms of seats have invariably been the result of substantially larger vote shares. The comparisons...
More »Mamata to govt: Pause all land acquisition for now
Reiterating her stand on the Rajarhat land issue, Trinamool Congress chief and Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday asked the Left Front government to put on hold all land acquisition in the new township till the Land Acquisition Act 1894 is amended. She said, she has communicated her view to the government about the changes in the current Act. “The state government should stop all its efforts of acquiring land. Their days...
More »Bengal’s migrant underbelly: Delhi tragedy rips a veil by Devadeep Purohit, Imran Ahmed Siddiqui amd Rith Basu
At least 29 of the 66 migrants crushed to death in east Delhi when a building collapsed on Monday night hailed from Bengal. The figure signposts the exodus of an abandoned generation and the inability of a state to retain its young or equip them for a better life elsewhere. The death of so many Bengalis has brought out in the open troubling issues that policymakers — both in the state...
More »Orissa: POSCO trouble far from over
Even after five-and-half years since its inception, the biggest foreign Direct Investment (FDI) for the country, the POSCO steel project has failed to take off due to widespread opposition from several quarters. Now, the 51,000 crore project has run into more trouble as the environment clearance to the project seems unlikely. But the Orissa government has come to the fore, not just supporting the project but also moving the Supreme Court, filing...
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