We have read a lot abt the situation in nandigram but what is not clear to me is the motive and driving force of the workers of the left(read:CPM) parties and of their mentors.
NANDIGRAM
Why would the CPI or rather the left workers work so hard, fight a battle in nandigram when we have never heard of them being so active except during elections, then what is it that drives them about this issue that they have dug trenches, bunkers and took on villagers straight on? There cen be 3 reasons that i can think of:
1. For the dev of our nation and that of Bengal
2. Pressure from the seniors.
3. Third is the reason which is the thing that makes the world go round.
Reason 1 and 2 are interrelated as it is the seniors who will tell the workers what is good for dev. and as far as i can c both are not the reasons for the issue because:
1. If Mr. Bhattacharya and his men were all that sensitive and hard working towards the development of bengal then it would have been the best state of the nation by now as they have been in power for 10 years.
2. Left would rather stay in the prototype indian marxist image than beat drum of being a dev. oriented party which can be seen in the N-deal issue, an issue for which BJP couldnt find much flaws and the left managed to strangle the deal for its prototype anti-US
image.
3. Left ideology and capitalism are two opposites and SEZ is a typical capitalist brainchild.
4. There has never been a grand enough dev. agenda for which our dhoti clad politicians and their team of workers along with the local police and administration would take such a step and kill an imaginary uprising by killing those involved and also sealing off the area for our omnipresent media, mamta banerjee, medha patkar and the burgeoise...
So the only logical reason that seems to be there for the nandigram incident to have occurted seems to be the financial gains expected out of setting up the industry. Money is bound to be sucked up into the govt machinery on buying as well as selling side of the SEZ land.
Some part of this money is bound to make its way into the hands of the parties, workers and police people who helped seal off the area and curb the uprising.. It seems that the villagers sensed it much beforeus the city dwellers were enjoying the comforts of AC or geyser
(sometimes both) could. This maybe because:
1. Their proximity to the deal deal and the reason that they were under the hammer and hence they were supposed to realise.
2. Years of experience of govt cruelty and insensitiveness, the yearsold experience of their fathers and forefathers not getting the promised relief material and money in times of flood and drought.
So the villagers had experience of the govt robbing them of their rights and knew that the govt was once again coming for the kill, this time the big kill, this time they are after their livelihood, their land which is theeir and their families only possession. this is why the villagers are protesting asgains the land grabbing. Why else would tthey oblect to a promise of good jobs and good money for their land.
And all the media coverage is not going to help as the story that the CRPF has gained control over the area is good enough to stop thinking about the issue but what abou those who lost their lives, what about those whose family members lost their lives defending their own land which would eventually be snatched. More importantly what about those who organised these mass murders, loot and plunder. Most importantly, will the govt still go ahead with the plan.
