This is not something the people of Bengal had bargained for when they bought the slogan of “paribortan” advanced by the TMC - Congress combine and decided to end 34 years of uninterrupted reign of the Left Front. Killings, arson, rape, molestation, physical assaults on women, forcible collection of money, eviction from land -- have all become a daily occurrence. It does not surprise them anymore. Slowly but surely, people have started comparing the current dispensation with the dreaded period of the seventies, when the state witnessed semi-fascist terror. Will the state fall back to those days is an apprehension being shared by more and more people.
Between the period May 14, 2011 when the TMC
combine assumed office to May 12, 2012, as many as 65 Left Front leaders,
activists and supporters have been brutally killed by TMC goons. 4904 persons had
to be hospitalised on account of the injuries sustained in such attacks.
The steep rise in the overall crime graph
points to the general deterioration in the law and order situation during the
past one year, since the TMC combine assumed office. 40,124 people have been
evicted from their homes. It is estimated that an amount of around Rs. 28
crores has been forcibly collected from 9529 persons.
There has been an alarming increasing in the
number of rape cases. 23 cases of rape have been reported from different parts
of the state during the past one year. Apart from this, there has also been an
overall rise in the incidents of atrocities against women. During the first
year of the TMC regime, and shamefully with a lady at the helm, 517 cases of
molestation of women and 790 cases of physical assault on women have been reported.
One of these cases pertains to the rape of a speech and hearing impaired girl
in Bankura by a resident doctor within the hospital premises. In an
overwhelming majority of these cases the culprits owe their allegiance to the
ruling TMC. Unfortunately, however, in many cases, the complainants have been
discredited, their character assassinated and motives assigned. In cases were
police officers have investigated independently and proceeded against the
culprits, they have been promptly transferred. The CM has had the cheek to call
these cases “politically motivated” or “fabricated”, even if it meant
tarnishing the image of the victim and defending the perpetrators of these
crimes.
There has been a planned and systematic attack
on land reforms implemented during the Left Front rule. Apart from 26,838 pata
holders and bargardars (who had received tenancy rights during the tenure of
Left Front government) who have been evicted from their lands, 3,418 peasants
are not being allowed to cultivate their own land.
The attack has now spread to democratic institutions
and the electoral process, besides the massive attack on the political
opponents of the TMC. Even the levels of
intolerance have seen a steady growth. The innocuous act of forwarding an email
containing a caricature of the Chief Minister saw a university professor,
Ambikesh Mahapatra landing behind bars. Newspapers and periodicals that a
library could subscribe to have all been listed and sent in an order to
libraries across the state. Boards put up by the Ganashakti daily have been
made a special target for attack. 250 of such boards on which the daily was
pasted for reading by the public who could not afford purchasing the paper,
have been destroyed. The democratic right to protest is also sought to be
curtailed. Another renowned professor, Partho Sarothi Ray was arrested and
jailed for taking part in a peaceful demonstration against eviction of slum
dwellers.
Since October 2011, 38 incidents of attacks
on the election process in different institutions in the state have been
reported. 84 student union offices have been captured by the student wing owing
allegiance to the TMC. Assault on students, teachers and staff in educational
institutions are increasing.
It is but natural that the brunt has been
borne by the CPI(M), the mass organisations under its leadership and its
partners in the Left Front. Apart from the 65 leaders and cadres of the Left
who have been mercilessly killed, 611 offices of the CPI(M) have been ransacked
and captured. 217 offices of the mass organisations have been captured in
different parts of the state. 14 Party conferences at various levels were
attacked. 3293 persons have been arrested on the basis of false and fabricated
cases being foisted on them. Arms are being planted in houses and offices of
the Party and in subsequent raids “recoveries” are reported. The reported
number of such cases is 169.
Besides, there has been a sharp increase in
the number of kidnappings, looting of shops, dismantling of elected three tier
panchayat bodies or forcible resignation of elected representatives.
But this is not all. In the seven month
period between October 12, 2011 and May 12, 2011, agricultural distress has led
53 peasants to commit suicide, which the government is not ready to admit.(INN)
Post
Poll Violence perpetrated by AITC and INC miscreants against CPI(M) & Left
Front activists in West Bengal as reported from May 14, 2011 to May 12, 2012
At a
glance
1
|
Killed
|
65
|
2
|
Abetted to commit suicide
|
12
|
3
|
Peasant suicides (from October 12, 2011)
|
53
|
4
|
Rape
|
23
|
5
|
Molestation
|
517
|
6
|
Physical assault on women
|
790
|
7
|
Injured & hospitalized
|
4904
|
8
|
Evicted from house
|
40124
|
9
|
Ransacked, looted & burnt
|
2867
|
10
|
CPI(M) office ransacked & captured
|
611
|
11
|
Attack on Party conferences
|
14 (from November 2011)
|
12
|
Mass organisations & trade union
offices captured
|
217
|
13
|
Attack on the election process in different
institutions
|
38 (from October 2011)
|
14
|
Student Union offices captured
|
84
|
15
|
Ganashakti Board destroyed
|
250
|
16
|
Pre-planned so called `arms recovery’
|
169
|
17
|
Arrest on false and fabricated cases
|
3293
|
18
|
Forcefully collection of money. No – amount
|
9529 (+) Nos – 27 crore 87 lac 8 thousand
|
19
|
Not allowed to cultivate own land. No –
Acre
|
3418 (+) Nos – 9222.73 Acre
|
20
|
Eviction of Patta Holder & Bargader. No
– Acre
|
26838 (+) Nos – 9404.13
|
* Apart from the above statement, the
incidents like kidnapping, assault on students-teachers-staffs, ransacking
educational institutions, looting of shops, dismantling of elected three tier
panchayat, forcing to resign from the elected bodies are not enlisted.
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