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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS/India/Bardhan_Buddha_kept_allies_in_dark/articleshow/1795836.cms NEW DELHI: In one of the sharpest criticism of CPM and West Bengal CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, CPI general-secretary A B Bardhan has called the police firing in Nandigram "unexpected, unbelievable and traumatic" and squarely blamed the CM for running the Left Front government as a government of CPM alone keeping the allies in the "dark". Bardhan has for the first time admitted that three Left parties ? CPI, RSP and Forward Bloc ? had "refused to share the responsibility for a totally unilateral action". He made it clear that "they would rather quit the government and remain within the Front, rather than allow things to continue like this". He has also said that never before has there been such an organised and brutal police assault under a Left regime. "If the lesson is not learnt, peoples' actions have to intervene," he said. In a strong article for the party mouthpiece New Age, Bardhan said: "The chief minister and some of his colleagues felt they could carry through everything without the need for any consultation with or help from other partners of the front. They (the other partners) remained in the dark about whatever was happening or was to happen." Bardhan said the allies had seen it coming and had made "repeated pleas for greater transparency... taking every partner into confidence about the policies and measures that were to be taken, about using persuasion rather than coercion, in the pursuit of building industries and acquiring land for the purpose." Bardhan said the post-Nandigram meeting of the Left Front, where the allies demanded a better consultation mechanism failing which they would opt of the government, had its desired effect. Therefore, to talk of an alternative does not mean much. This would have happened "had CPM refused to accept the proposals made by the other Left parties". "It is good that wiser counsels prevailed," he said. Maintaining that the Left Front would have to come out of the crisis together, Bardhan said CPM has to "give up its self-complacence and play the major role". "It has to mend its ways in running the front and the government." On industrialisation, Bardhan said it can co-exist with agriculture. "There is no question of posing one against the other, or of one at the expense of the other," he said, adding that SEZs need a "relook". CPI, he maintained, holds that SEZs are neither necessary nor inevitable. "These are all issues on which the Left parties have to think and not repeat the shibboleths mouthed by the bourgeoisie and its propagandists." - -- Anivar Aravind moving Republic Global Alternate Information Applications(GAIA) Peringavu.P.O Thrissur-680018 Kerala Ph. +91 9446545336 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGA+B8F+jWtLmEaycRArTRAKCn2kvGpgN+9pIqI6orxAWSqd7nPgCeOcE9 wyxtbx89ZeJkT3Mpu5nj9Y8= =gD7V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ greenyouth mailinglist is the activist support mailinglist for kerala run by Global Alternate Information Applications (GAIA) To post to this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
