It is not just [tag]Narendra Modi[/tag] who stands in the dock. The [tag]Communist Party of India[/tag] (Marxist) has just joined the ranks of those who use terror to subjugate their own people. The Chief Minister, [tag]Buddhadeb Bhattacharya[/tag] has been as callous as Modi when discussing the violence in Nandigram:

”I stick to that. Some people are trying to project that the violence was started by CPI-M workers. Last 11 months, the Bhoomi Uchched Pratirodh Committee, the Trinamool Congress and the Maoists were creating violence with arms. And last two-three days, CPI-M workers had paid them back in their own coin,”

I can just see the next session of Parliament….. the BJP will shout Nandigram, the CPI(M) will shout Gujarat …. and in the melee that ensues nothing will get done, and no one will get justice…..

When you see images, and testimonies… and the sheer terror in the eyes of those on camera, you wonder at the State and its stupidity…. Why is the Indian Government chasing people into the arms of the Naxals?

For all those who have been screaming about Mumbai being Shanghai and other such non-sense…. please remember this is how the Chinese State acquires land…When Chinese methods are applied in [tag]India[/tag], what we will get is [tag]Nandigram[/tag]……

This also brings me to another question….

Why is it that agrarian land is being set aside for SEZ’s?Look at it from the tax payers point of view … we have subsidised the land, we have subsidised infrastructure to reach this land, we have subsidised practically everything that goes to make the land prosperous…. and now, all this is being handed over to business & industry. And we are going to subsidise the farmers moving out and industry moving in…..

Won’t it be more sensible to look at unproductive areas and set up SEZ’s there — the SEZ’s will bring in roads, infrastructure, employment and what not…. What is the purpose of putting up SEZ’s in already over crowded locales….

Development never happens overnight, and I am not sure that what ever is happening in the name of development is going to bear fruits in the long run…..