Biman blames USA for Darjeeling situation
Posted by barunroy on May 15, 2008
SILIGURI, May 14: The state Left Front chairman and CPI-M state secretary Mr Biman Bose today raised accusing fingers at the US vis-a-vis the Darjeeling situation. “We do not have evidence to prove the allegation but we have strong doubts that US Intelligence agencies are linked with the political turmoil in the Darjeeling hills,” Mr Bose, said. [Inset: Biman Bose]
He also indicated strong administrative measures to put down “lawlessness,” in the Darjeeling hills after the panchayat polls.
Expressing concern over the fast deteriorating situation in the Darjeeling hills Mr Bose said that the state government and the people must be vigilant about a possible involvement of the US secret agencies there. “We have no concrete evidence to connect the two, yet our experience says that the USA adept in ‘the art of Balkanisation’ or vivisecting non-conformist countries into smaller ones may have some role in the ongoing disturbances in the Darjeeling hills. The objective is to weaken the non-conformist countries to cripple their economy and penetrate into their markets at will,” Mr Bose added. Warning of strong measures if the lawlessness continued in the hills the CPI-M leader said that the state administration was now extremely occupied with the three-tier panchayat poll process but would definitely take steps after the polls to put down lawlessness in the hills.
“Our party is, however, in favour of a negotiated settlement of the crisis. We call upon the Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha leadership to submit a memorandum detailing its grievances and the government would do everything to sort out the matter across the table,” Mr Basu stated.
Negating the logic behind the smaller state theory the CPI-M state secretary said that bifurcation of a state into smaller ones was by no means a panacea for development. “On the contrary, development gets thwarted when a smaller state is carved out. This is our experience in the Indian perspective,” Mr Basu observed. [The Statesman]
norbu t said
Biman Bose, CPIM State Secretary, should refrain from projecting the century old Gorkha people’s movement for an Indian identity and for setting right the historical blunders of the erstwhile colonial rulers as merely a ‘development/law & order problem’ and also as USA’s fictional grand designs to balkanize India. His comments on the “lawlessness” in Darjeeling is unpalatable and smacks of malafide, especially since he is the chairman of the left front and his utterances (if not his actions) at least should be responsible.
To Mr Biman Bose, I would say, Dada first keep your house in order. Lawlessness is what your party is doing and bombs are being manufactured by your party. The lawlessness of your cadres is not a wild guess or unsubstantiated ‘for all ills blame the USA ” blind theory (Indian Communist Manifesto). Biman Da pl read today’s article in the Telegraph reproduced below. It may help correct your myopia :
Allies shed each other’s blood
Violent poll but not as bad as 2003
OUR BUREAU
The daughter of a slain RSP leader grieves over his body in Basanti. Picture by Sanat Kumar Sinha
May 14: Growing tension between the RSP and the CPM over the past few months today culminated in the death of four supporters of the two parties during the panchayat polls in Basanti, South 24-Parganas.
Seven persons have been killed in poll-related violence since last night.
Eighteen people were killed on a single day of polling in 2003. However, the deaths five years ago were not in clashes between two Left Front partners.
Around 10.30am today, three RSP supporters, including a woman, were allegedly chased by CPM men when they were about to enter a polling booth in the Talda village panchayat area, 90km from Calcutta.
The RSP trio were yards away from their homes when they were fired at.
Madhusudan Halder, 23, son of RSP candidate Rampada, Kanak Sardar, 32, daughter of RSP leader Palan Halder, and Palan’s brother Ramkrishna, 58, died.
Police said a dozen RSP supporters suffered bullet and bomb injuries. They have been admitted to the Basanti block health centre.
The houses of Palan, Mangal Halder and Nimai Halder were looted and torched.
CPM activist Atiar Sheikh, 50, was hacked to death and bombed.
The CPM and the RSP had been engaged in a fierce turf war in the Basanti and Gosaba areas of South-24 Parganas in the run-up to the polls. Several top RSP leaders had visited Talda in the past few days and exhorted party activists “not to allow CPM any ground in Basanti and its adjoining areas’’.
The RSP, which has been critical of the CPM-led government’s move to acquire farmland for industries, had failed to arrive at a seat-sharing deal with the partner.
In the last elections, the two parties had no understanding in 80 per cent of the seats. This time, there were differences over 85 per cent of them.
RSP leader and irrigation minister Subhas Naskar alleged that Basanti police station had not taken any step despite being told earlier to deploy more policemen and make preventive arrests.
After today’s flare-up, a large contingent of police, Rapid Action Force and Border Security Force personnel were deployed in the village.
Chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee called up PWD minister and senior RSP leader Kshiti Goswami to say he was deeply concerned at the loss of lives and urged for talks. “The incident is really unfortunate and shouldn’t have happened. I am sending more forces to Basanti tonight as there is a chance of retaliatory action. I want to request you to ask your party men to sit with our supporters and work out a solution. The home secretary is here. Please talk to him,” the chief minister was quoted as telling Goswami.
Goswami told the chief minister his party had demanded the deployment of the paramilitary in Basanti for the polls. “It was not done.”
Two CPM workers died last night while making bombs in Shantipur village in Nadia and a Congress supporter was killed by a bomb hurled at him in Howrah’s Domjur.
The first phase of the polls, on Sunday, had no casualties.
In 2005, 10 persons died in Murshidabad, where the CPM and the Congress clashed. In Canning and Kultali — in South 24-Parganas — a CPM duo died in an SUCI attack.
Home secretary Asok Mohan Chakrabarti said tonight that the government would probe why the violence erupted in Basanti despite “sufficient deployment of armed forces”.
District police chief Praveen Kumar said 10 people, including three policemen, were injured in Bishnupur, Budge Budge and Baruipur.
Four Trinamul Congress activists from Bishnupur were hospitalised in Calcutta with bullet injuries.
The election commission said polling was suspended in 33 booths, including 15 in Basanti following violence and allegations of booth jamming and ballot-paper snatching.
I CAME, I SAW IM FRUSTRATED!(NEUTRAL OBSERVER) said
IDIOT OR WHAT?
GOD REALLY DOESNT GIVE BRAINS TO EVERYBODY.
WITH A NAME LIKE “BIMAN BOSE”, ITS NOT SURPRISING TO SEE HIM COMING UP WITH CRAP SUCH AS US INVOLVEMENT IN THE HILLS.
I WOULD RATHER HAVE A BLOODY US MILITARY BASE IN DARJEELING THAN A BUNCH OF LOUTS WITH NAMES SUCH AS BIMAN,SHIMAN,NOMAN RULING OVER US.
- A GOVT OFFICER WHACKING STUFF FROM HIS OFFICIAL RESIDENCE.
- A PARTY THAT IS SO ABSOLUTIST THAT IT WOULD RATHER RULE WITH AN IRON HAND THAN WIN THE HEARTS OF ITS PEOPLE.
- THE LEGENDARY GURU RABINDRA NATH TAGORE, BEING MADE TO BE A PART OF THE GREAT IPL TAMASHA……
THE LEFT PARTY- JUST A WAY TO LIVE A LIFE OF LUXURY AT THE EXPENSE OF MILLIONS DYING & SUFFERING WITHOUT ANY BODY EVEN BOTHERING TO FIND OUT.WHAT A START YOU HAD, LIBERATING FARMERS, PEASANTS AND THE DOWNTRODDEN FROM THE TYRANNIC CLUTCHES OF THE LANDLORDS……
USHERING IN HOPE FOR EVERYBODY……
REVOLUTION…..
THEN REVELATION………
TODAY YOU JUST STAND AS A REGULAR BUSINESS CONCERN, WEIGHING PROFIT AND LOSS AND ACTING ONLY WHERE THERE IS SOMETHING MATERIALISTIC TO BE GAINED………
UVE JUST MORPHED INTO WHAT YOU STARTED TO FIGHT…….
THE CAUSE IS LOST
JUST TWO FACED, HYPOCRITES LEFT TO SQUABBLE AND NEGOTIATE LIKE PIMPS….
EVERYTHING CAN BE BOUGHT AND SOLD….
AND UVE STARTED WITH YOUR INTEGRITY AND YOUR SOUL, THE VERY ESSENCE OF YOUR EXISTENCE……..
MAYBE SOMEONE HAS BID FOR YOU……
OR MAYBE UVE JUST SOLD YOURSELF…….
Jyoti Mukhia said
Biman Bose must be reading a lot of Fredrick Forsyth novels or he has gone out of his mind in this age. To fight atrocities we don’t need USA, to fight for our rights we don’t need CIA nor ISI nor MIG 15, do we? Neplese are born warriors and know to fight back.
Biman Bose (CPM) might try their facist mode of intervention but remember what happend to Chennai Super yesterday, Gorkhas are like Jayasuriya at the moment.
Jyoti Thapa said
I did not realise paranoia could reach such lengths. From where would do the American agents infiltrate Darjeeling? Maybe he saw many Darjeeling boys and girls wearing the Levis brand of jeans and thought they were given by the American agents.
Jyoti Thapa said
It is obvious that the Left and CPIM are very scared of the USA. Hillary or Obama do come over
Amit Bhandari said
Jyoti plez stop making char anna ko comments and concentrate on important things. Lets come up with concrete things instead of wasting time.
rubin said
Ou..amit..k bhako..what abt u then?…haha….this a blog..je pae te bolna paunche…mann ma ako..
Jyoti Thapa said
You have missed a very important fact that I am pointing at. You are only narrating. Not analysing your opponents
Jyoti Thapa said
You are exposing lack of unity
Jyoti Thapa said
Rise above chaar anna days
aardee said
Biman just needs a scapegoat for his party’s apathy and complete mismanagement of development in the hills. So instead of owning up to his party’s inefficiency he is trying to garner media space by blaming the US…it always make good copy in print and on TV if you go US bashing rather than say you are sorry…diversionary tactics at its best.
Seriously Jyoti Mukhi if you say “Nepalese” are born warriors…there you go again alienating yourself from India…we are Indians and Gorkhas that is why we are staking our claim to a state of “Gorkhaland” if we club ourselves as Nepalese then sorry …we are shooting ourselves in the foot.
Hum Hindustani…hum Gorkhe! We owe our allegiance to the Tiranga…Jai Hind!
BTW ek ekdum naughty thought just occoured to me for a Marxist how come the CPI M minister has a capitalist name like BIMAN = aeroplane = invention of the US…ha ha…Irony at its best!
Jyoti Thapa said
Yo! Good analysis by Ardee. Sau crore ki baat!
aman said
what are basic reoson for the seprate statehood?is it development?vote bank?politics?plz leave u r comments n lets start a new thread on this blog.
aman said
i think his head is in his **s…that’s why he is getting all this wonky ideas.jai gorkha
Sabina said
Aman… U tell me brother…. how many University does South Bengal has?? 15 and how many University North Bengal has?? only ONE…
How many investments has North Bengal has??? None…
How much do the South Bengal politicians care for us?? None….
What has the CPI(M) govt done for us??? Nothing in last 25 years.. just one flyover for Siliuri..
Why should we stay with WB??? no reason whatsoever… Let’s get a new state and let’s develop to our hearts content
DO U get the point now??
Jyoti Thapa said
Aman you right Biman should be put on Banagladesh Biman and sent off. (No offence to Bangladeshis, just that their airline is called so)
Uttam Chhetri said
What dod we expect of a party who when India became free,dismissed it as false and Jawaharlal Nehru was dismissed as a lackey.
When the Chinese attacked India,they were celebrating in Kolkata beleiving their brothers were coming…they still have Mao Sarani in Kolkata
Uttam Chhetri said
But they fear the US badly…the current CM was the first person to get arrested when US attacked Vietnam.
Uttam Chhetri said
Arrested in India
Vee said
HAHAHAAHAHA is this guy serious??? was he baked when he said that??
Does Mr Biman know that NASA is planning to take him to the moon and leave him there till the connection between his brain and mouth gets fixed….ooh and they have invited some martians too…in case they have to perform a surgery….
Hatti hirda kukkur bhukcha!
Forget the imbecile’s comments…we know where we are headed!!
Vee said
HAHAHAAHAHA is this guy serious??? was he baked when he said that??
Does Mr Biman know that NASA is planning to take him to the moon and leave him there till the connection between his brain and mouth gets fixed….ooh and they have invited some martians too…in case they have to perform a surgery….
Hatti hirda kukkur bhukcha!
Forget the imbecile…we know where we are headed!!
bir gorkha said
ke ray bimam bhai tumi ke rokam katha bolcho ke bachar maton khata bolcho amar matha tey ye bechar bhalo lagche na . ye jeta movement sampurna katha ye upparey dewa hochey bhalo koray bechar koran and please read the history of gorkhas for the refreshment of your old mind it is 100 years demand which you must not forget . i hope you will consider our demand and from now on u should not talk like childest talk.
gorkha said
man …..mr biman is living in different world or he is seeing lots of hollywood movie…who made him sec of cpi-m man …this is why people of darjeeling wants separate state..we dont want guys like biman in govt chair..biman should first think and talk..he is embrasement for CPI-M…hello buddha hear yr boys…they need break from thier job…
Bolbacchan said
Biman da,
Hats off to you.
Bygone are days that you can FOOL purposely kept POOR ppl of Bengal.
Banglsdeshis brought & bought by you ppl can help you for couple of Elections but thats all.
So GROW UP and be positive in your THINKING & Actions, Be better than your OPPOSITION.
jwalahang said
Biman babu,
Apnar allegations para suna kori….! bhalo lagchhee…! USA link hobe to bhalo hobe Gorkha manus jonnee…! Ha…ha…ha…Kum se kum Gorkhaland to hobe..