Demonstration agains Nandhigram Genocide

Nandigram genocide, perpetrated jointly by the CPI(M) government and the party’s killing brigade, the artistes, film and stage activists and intellectuals of West Bengal staged protest and condemnation on March 15 and 17. A mammoth silent demonstration on 17 March led by poet Tarun Sanyal, energy scientist Dr. Sujay Bose, litterateur Mahasweta Devi, eminent cultural activist Manik Mukherjee, film director Aparna Sen, singer and lyricist Pratul Mukherjee, painter Ganesh Haloi, stage director Bibhas Chakraborty, director-actor Kaushik Sen, writer Saibal Mitra, advocates Jaimalya Bagchi, Kalyan Banerjee Partha Sengupta, film maker Shatarupa Sanyal and others and joined by thousands of well-meaning people from schools and colleges, universities, institutes of sciences, centres of art, art colleges, cultural and drama group, physicians and lawyers etc.,

Nandigram genocide, perpetrated jointly by the CPI(M) government and the party’s killing brigade, the artistes, film and stage activists and intellectuals of West Bengal staged protest and condemnation on March 15 and 17. A mammoth silent demonstration on 17 March led by poet Tarun Sanyal, energy scientist Dr. Sujay Bose, litterateur Mahasweta Devi, eminent cultural activist Manik Mukherjee, film director Aparna Sen, singer and lyricist Pratul Mukherjee, painter Ganesh Haloi, stage director Bibhas Chakraborty, director-actor Kaushik Sen, writer Saibal Mitra, advocates Jaimalya Bagchi, Kalyan Banerjee Partha Sengupta, film maker Shatarupa Sanyal and others and joined by thousands of well-meaning people from schools and colleges, universities, institutes of sciences, centres of art, art colleges, cultural and drama group, physicians and lawyers etc., all wearing black badges marched along Bidhan Sarani and S. N. Banerjee Road amidst spell bound and grief-stricken, hundreds and hundreds of onlookers on the two sides of the road. Before the rally started a short meeting at College Square was held under the presidency of Tarun Sanyal, President of the Forum of Artists-Cultural Activists-Intellectuals which was addressed by the aforesaid eminent personalities and a few others. Shri Bibhas Chakraborty observed this heinous crime of Buddhadev Bhattacharjee government is reflecting an abysmal low cultural standard of it. Shri Ganesh Haloi said, this barbarous genocide has stunned him deeply. Jaimalya Bagchi said, as because this government does enjoy any mass support it also does not feel any compunction for this killing. The government is trying to set in ‘rule of law’ turning water of Haldi river red. Mahasweta Devi pointed out that it was women who all along remained in the forefront. Aparna Sen, pointing to the killing by the CPI(M) cadres hand in glove with the police demanded stoppage of deployment of party cadres in suppressing any movement. Pratul Mukhopadhyay lamented, we have reached again after five years but in Bengal. One Sandhya Das, a peasant housewife from Nandigram, narrated her horrifying experience of seeing killing spree by the police and CPI(M) goons combine. She told how they buried bodies of children covered with salt and how they demonically tore apart babies in front of the mothers ! Manik Mukherjee firmly opined, it is futile to accuse Buddhadev Bhattacharjee personally for, all he did, he did in concurrence with his party’s Polit Bureau and at the dictate of the ruling class. So we must demand resignation of this killer government. He informed that two housewives of Nandigram broke down in tears before Comrade Debaprasad Sarkar, MLA when they were depicting how the CPI(M) dressed in police uniforms but with chappal broke into their houses and raped them during the police-CPI(M) carnage on the fateful day. The CPI(M) party and its government have stooped to such a low.

In the meeting poet Tarun Sanyal announced that he had surrendered his Rabindra Puraskar in protest against the Nandigram genocide by the CPI(M) government. It also announced and informed that litterateur Nabarun Bhattacharya had surrendered his Bankim Purushkar and would donate the prize money for the victims of Nandigram; poet Sankha Ghosh resigned from the post of Vice-President of Bangla Academy, Ashrukumar Shikdar and some others also resigned from the membership of the same, Shashi Anand resigned from the membership post of the West Bengal Film Development Corporation.

On behalf of the Forum gave a call for donating to the fund to be built to help the victims of Nandigram and people on the roadside donated generously during the passage of the demonstration all-through up to Rani Rashmoni at Esplanade. The demonstration ended there

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