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Help resolve Lalgarh crisis
Social unrest is known to manifest itself as problems of law and order. But the reverse can also be true: sometimes, politically inspired violence seeks the cover of socio-economic grievances. Maoist outlaws who went on the rampage in the Lalgarh area of West Midnapore district of West Bengal, carrying out murderous attacks on workers of the ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist) and destroying their houses and party offices, were looking to settle political scores in t he guise of protesting 'police atrocities.'
http://www.hindu.com/2009/06/19/stories/2009061955410800.htm
A shocking failure of security
.. there is an urgent need to go beyond law and order concerns and place the State's endemic caste and class violence in a larger socio-economic context. The uprising in the naxal belt of Bihar is a product of the social unrest engendered by decades of upper caste dominance. Stories of bonded labour suffering hardship at the hands of the land-owning upper castes are legion. The advent of the naxalites led to the birth of the warlike Ranvir Sena, a caste army raised by the Bhumihars to decimate the Maoists' support base. Needless to say, the Sena's primary targets were the poor and landless Dalits, who, in turn, looked to the naxals for protection and support. That the Maoists were able to mobilise thousands of their cadre for the jailbreak operation speaks to the extent of their support. It is vital that security is restored in Jehanabad at the earliest. It is equally important that administrators begin to address the long-neglected problems of the people.
http://www.hinduonnet.com/2005/11/16/stories/2005111604011000.htm
Posted by Xinhua Ram to The Chindu at June 18, 2009
in the case of jehanabad, n.ram cried foul over opposition to maoist violence. he termed ranvir sena, which was formed to fight naxal menace, as opposition to dalits! maoists were projected as saviours.
in lalgarh, maoists who are fighting along with tribals are only indulging in political violence, acccording to n.ram.
btw, is law and order not a state issue? i remember reading n.ram's editorial advocating that the center should leave matters to the state.
apart from superficially scraping the surface and reading out cpm press releases, we are yet to hear from chindu why there is a conflict in lalgarh. political violence of this scale is hard to fathom unless there is simmering social unrest.
do any of our readers know about the real reasons behind lalgarh unrest.
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Compare And Contrast These Two Editorials!!
Help resolve Lalgarh crisis
Social unrest is known to manifest itself as problems of law and order. But the reverse can also be true: sometimes, politically inspired violence seeks the cover of socio-economic grievances. Maoist outlaws who went on the rampage in the Lalgarh area of West Midnapore district of West Bengal, carrying out murderous attacks on workers of the ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist) and destroying their houses and party offices, were looking to settle political scores in t he guise of protesting 'police atrocities.'
http://www.hindu.com/2009/06/19/stories/2009061955410800.htm
A shocking failure of security
.. there is an urgent need to go beyond law and order concerns and place the State's endemic caste and class violence in a larger socio-economic context. The uprising in the naxal belt of Bihar is a product of the social unrest engendered by decades of upper caste dominance. Stories of bonded labour suffering hardship at the hands of the land-owning upper castes are legion. The advent of the naxalites led to the birth of the warlike Ranvir Sena, a caste army raised by the Bhumihars to decimate the Maoists' support base. Needless to say, the Sena's primary targets were the poor and landless Dalits, who, in turn, looked to the naxals for protection and support. That the Maoists were able to mobilise thousands of their cadre for the jailbreak operation speaks to the extent of their support. It is vital that security is restored in Jehanabad at the earliest. It is equally important that administrators begin to address the long-neglected problems of the people.
http://www.hinduonnet.com/2005/11/16/stories/2005111604011000.htm
Posted by Xinhua Ram to The Chindu at June 18, 2009
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Friends... Chindu has begun publishing from Kolkata. Soon, Commies & Jehadis will be burning down the offices of other English newspapers published form Kolkota, so that Chindu can establish monopoly in West Bengal too and continue to promote the cause of Commies & Jehadi infiltrators there
Moist has taken advantage of the non governce and non developement in the "jangalmahal", where CPIM was only party till early 90's before Moist come into picture. CPIM got initially huge support of the tribal and poor people through their hollow progressive talk and initial good work on the land distribution. But CPIM party cadre gradually became loal boss of the area from the beginning of ninty. Police and administartion became the wings of CPIM. People accepted it helplessly but nothing could do due to the absence of mainstream opposition party. Therefore, when Moist came in Jangalmahal and forces the local trader to give higher price for "kendu pata", tribals started to love them and protect them without informing police. But Moist ultimate aim was not people wellfare,instead of class struggle by their voilent means so they started to kill local CPIM leader since they are only influencial upper class though the looting og money for the local developement. It is happeing last ten years, but did not gain momentum due to poor active responce from the local tribal. This situation changes slowly as police stared picking up the local people for quostening and give many false cases, especially after killing attempt on CM last year. People started to from Pratirodh bahini against police autocracy. Moist used it to capture more area. Local people and Moist become more active to oppose CPIM ater recent poll drawback of CPIM since party has become weak and could not suppress people anymore using police and administration. Symbol of CPIM's cadre wealth is the white house of a local secretary at Dharapur, which has been demolished by people rcently. Mainstream oppostion party does not definitely support Moist, but become happy to see the killing of CPIM cadre, since they also received the similar treatment from CPIM. This the sitution in the jangal mahal.
Moist has taken advantage of the non governce and non developement in the "jangalmahal", where CPIM was the only party till early 90's before Moist came into the picture. CPIM got initially huge support of the tribal and poor people through their hollow progressive talk and initial good work on the land distribution. But CPIM party cadre gradually became local boss of the area from the beginning of nineties. Police and administartion became the wings of CPIM. People accepted it helplessly but nothing could do due to the absence of mainstream opposition party. Therefore, when Moist came in Jangalmahal and helped the local people, like forcing the trader to give higher price for "kendu pata", tribals started to love them and to protect them without informing police. But Moist ultimate aim was not people wellfare,instead of class struggle by their voilent means so they started to kill local CPIM leader since they are the only influencial upper class though the looting og money for the local developement. It is happeing last ten years, but did not gain momentum due to poor active responce from the local tribal. This situation changes slowly as police stared picking up the local people for quostening and give many false cases, especially after the killing attempt on CM last year. People started to from "Pratirodh bahini" against police autocracy. Moist used it to capture more area. Local people and Moist become more active to oppose CPIM after their recent poll drawback since party has become now weak and could not suppress people anymore using police and administration. Symbol of CPIM's cadre wealth can be seen through the white house of a local secretary at Dharapur, which has been demolished by the people rcently. Mainstream oppostion party cadre and supporter does not definitely support Moist, but become happy to see the killing of CPIM leader, since they have also received the similar treatment from CPIM. This is the sitution in the Jangalmahal.
Harish Khare has been appointed Media Advisor to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Presently, 63-year-old Khare is the chairman of the Media Advisory Committee of the Rajya Sabha. Khare is also the Political Editor of The Hindu and has a close rapport with the All India Congress Committee and officials in 10, Janpath.
http://news.rediff.com/report/2009/jun/19/harish-khare-named-pms-media-advisor.htm
Thank you Xinhua...that is good riddance...
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