Privatising land over dead bodies

Shameless slaves to the industrialists

One can at least understand the stubbornness of Ratan Tata when it comes to insisting on fertile land from Singur for his pet car project. After all, he is a Capitalist. Unfortunately, the Chief Minister of West Bengal Buddhadeb Bhattacharya cannot trot out any such excuse for not only handing over prime real estate to industrialists for a pittance, but also ensuring that his allegedly Marxist government is forcing peasants out of their homes and farms. Nor can he provide any excuse for the brutal manner in which the state police has been treating the local residents protesting the forcible ‘expropriation’ of their livelihoods.

Even more scandalous is the manner in which land is being forcibly taken away from villagers in Nandigram to enable the Indonesian Salim group to set up an SEZ. In fact, the SEZ is nothing but a real-estate scam to further enrich rich industrialists and paying a fraction of the prices they should command. The least that the neo-marxist Bhattacharya can do is to put an immediate end to this ‘crony capitalism’. Nandigram is facing a ‘civil war’ over the controversial issue.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2006

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