Sunday, November 29, 2009

CHATRADHAR MAHATO, DREADED MAOIST LEADER, GETS SUPPORT FROM MAOIST INTELLECTUALS

INDIAN RAILWAY MINISTER ALLOWS PRIVATE PARTIES TO PLUNDER RAILWAY LANDS

Not for creating its own infrastructure. The Railway Ministry under the instruction of Mamata Banerjee has decided to hand over large quantum of vacant railway lands including prime agricultural lands to big business houses in Kolkata, Siliguri and other big cities of the country. The Railways have informed that it has already earmarked 3,744 acres of land for the purpose in prime areas of Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Amritsar, Ajamgarh, Guwhati, Kanpur, Kolkata and other cities. Renowned promoters and builders would be invited to construct shopping malls, hotels and business centres in these lands solely owned by the railways by virtue of Land Acquisition Act, 1894.

It is pertinent to point out that the Indian Railways have acquired agricultural lands in different parts of the country with the help of the respective state governments for constructing infrastructure of the railways. As for example, in Howrah it had acquired 700 acres of land in 1984-85 with the help of the state government for constructing a “Goods Terminal”.

Now, the railways plan to lease out 3,744 acres of acquired land to private parties. It expects to earn Rs. 2,700 crores on this account. The said 3,744 acres of land has already been handed over to Railway Land Development Authority.

In reply to question during last railway budget, Mamata Banerjee had stated on the floor of the parliament that her ministry had planned to use the vacant railway lands for commercial purposes with private entrepreneurs on PPP Model (Public-Private Partnership Model). She informed that thousands of acres of railway land have already been earmarked for the same.

It would not be out of place to mention that in Singur she did not allow the Nano Car Factory to come up on the plea of construction of factory, Shopping Malls, Beauty Parlours etc. over agricultural lands. But after becoming Railway Minister she is hell bent on handing over prime agricultural lands owned by the railways to private parties for the same purpose.

It is relevant to point out that the entire land of 3,744 acres including agricultural land was acquired for the development of railway infrastructure in terms of Land Acquisition Act, 1894. This land cannot be used for any purpose other than the purpose for which it was originally acquired as per law.

But in gross violation of the provisions of the relevant act, Mamata Banerjee has been promoting big business houses with some ulterior motive and hidden agenda.

The sycophant spineless intellectuals, who were so vocal during Singur and Nandigram episodes in the name of safeguarding agricultural land, are shamelessly silent on misuse of acquired agricultural lands of the railways for promoting private business. The reason is simple. Most of them remain purchased in this or that way to serve the interests of big business houses and finance capital. The duplicity of these perverted intellectuals, therefore, stand exposed to the people from all walks of life.

Saturday, November 21, 2009

INDIAN RAILWAY FUND PLUNDERED BY MAOISTS

There is no denying the fact that a number of Maoist intellectuals and other opportunists in the guise of impartiality and neutrality had played a pivotal role in sabotaging industrialization at Singur, Nandigram and developmental works in West Bengal during the last three years in connivance with industrial competitors, big business houses and imperialists. They had also worked day in and day out campaigning in favour of Mamata Banerjee and her party candidates during the last Parliamentary Elections, 2009. Apart from this, they have also been supporting Maoists and instrumental in inciting criminals and antisocials to create serious problems of law and order in the state to destabilize the Left Front Government in West Bengal.

After becoming Union Railway Minister, Mamata Banerjee has constituted three new Committees to reward these Maoist intellectuals and the opportunists. Under her instruction, the Railway Board under the Ministry of Railways, Government of India has issued a Government Order bearing No. ERB-1/2009/23/33 on 9th October 2009 constituting the said committees with detailed facilities.

1 Heritage and Cultural Committee under the chairpersonship of Smt. Shaoli Mitra

2 Passengers’ Amenities Committee under the chairpersonship of Shri Subhaprasanna Bhattacharjee

3 Passengers’ Services Committee under the chairpersonship of Shri Derek-o-Brayen

The entire expenses of these committees will be borne by the Indian Railways. Each full time member of the Committee will be paid Rs. 50,000/- (Rupees Fifty Thousand) as monthly salary and each part-timer will be paid Rs. 25,000/- per month. They will be also provided with the following facilities and amenities free of cost as per the said Government Order.

· Meeting allowance @ Rs. 520/-per day

· Free 1st Class AC Railway Pass with one companion

· Travel in Executive Class by flight

· Travel on road by car to be provided by the Indian Railways

· Lodging and boarding in Class I hotel anywhere

· Free telephone with ISD/STD facilities both at residence and office

· Free Medical treatment and facilities at the cost of the Indian Railways

· TA & DA at par with railway officers

Each and every Member of the Committees can appoint his/her own Private Secretary and of peons. All of them will also be provided separate office and expenses for the same.

The Chairperson of each committee can enlarge his /her Committee by co-opting any person thought to be necessary.

The total expenditure in maintaining these three Committees comes around 50 Lakhs (Rupees Fifty Lakhs) per month.

These committees are unprecedented in the history of the Indian Railways. This is the first time that such expensive committees have been constituted at the cost of the public exchequer to accommodate sycophants and ‘so-called’ champions of tribals and downtrodden. These sycophants often used to raise the questions of nepotism, corruption and exploitation. But now they are most shamelessly drawing huge money from railway exchequer without performing any job.

The pseudo intellectuals Bibhas Chakraborty, theatre personality, Arpita Ghosh, theatre personality, Joy Goswami, poet, Bratya Basu, theatre personality, Pallab Kirtania, Singer, Rituparna Ghosh, film director, Ustad Rashid Khan, artist, GS Raitela, Director General, National Council of Science Museum, Ratan Thiyam, theatre personality and many others have been made their members. Rajesh Agarwal, Executive Director of Railway Board, will act as the Coordinating Officer.

The entire exercise is nothing but blatant misuse of power and public exchequer for the promotion of the interests of the sycophants and the party.

Monday, November 16, 2009

PERVERTED INTELLECTUALS SILENT ON FORCIBLE ACQUISITION OF FERTILE AGRICULTURAL LAND BY MAMATA BANERJEE FOR RAILWAY PROJECTS

Mamata Banerjee as the Indian Railway Minister with the financial assistance of Japan has decided to accelerate the western and eastern Dedicated Freight Corridors (DFC) along its busy trunk routes to augment the transport capacity and meet the growing requirements of moving freight.

(1) The western Delhi-Mumbai DFC covering 1,483-km through Delhi, National Capital Region (NCR), Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra at a cost of Rs.26, 124 crores will stretch from the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust in Navi Mumbai to Dadri in Uttar Pradesh on the national capital's outskirts covering Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan.

High fertile farming land falling in villages of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra are covered under western corridor project.

Another project, the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor will also be developed simultaneously through Public-Private Partnership (PPP) along with the freight corridor.

The Railway Ministry expects to complete both the freight corridor and the industrial corridor by 2013.

(2) The eastern DFC will extend 1,806 km from Ludhiana in Punjab to Dankuni near Kolkata. It will be extended in future to serve the new deep-sea port in the Kolkata area and to largely serve coal and steel traffic. Here also fertile 3-crop/4-crop land will be acquired for the purpose.

The railways need to acquire 12,500 hectares over 51 districts in seven states for the proposed eastern and western freight corridor projects. The railways are demanding 42 per cent more 3-crop/4-crop fertile farming land for the project than what was previously envisaged. This is in sharp contrast to the earlier estimate of 8,833 hectares.

The railways have prepared land acquisition plans for 2,200 km. It has already issued a gazette notification for acquisition of 3-crop/4-crop high fertile farming land in villages of Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra covering a stretch of 1,077 km.

By the end of January 2009, the railways will be able to acquire nearly 100 km near Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh. The remaining areas will be acquired over six months.

The Railway Ministry on September 29, 2008 had published a notification declaring its intention to acquire 3-crop/4-crop fertile farming lands in Gujarat for execution, maintenance, management and operation of special rail corridor project following which farmers losing their 3-crop/4-crop fertile farming lands in these villages had raised about 1301 objections.

A year later on September 15, 2009, the government published a Notification stating that it has acquired 700 hectares of 3-crop/4-crop fertile farming land in 31 villages in three talukas and Vadodara city of Gujarat for the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor Project.

Farmers and sharecroppers in Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat have started agitation against the acquisition of highly fertile agriculture land for the proposed Freight Corridor.

They have suggested redesigning of the routes for sparing valuable 3-crop/4-crop fertile farming lands from acquisition and said the compensation package offered to these farmers in lieu of their 3-crop/4-crop fertile farming land was very less and not acceptable to them. The Railways have taken away their fertile farming land at throw away prices and rendered them jobless.

The farmers of Chandauli district in Uttar Pradesh under the banner of Krishi Bhoomi Bachao Sangharsh Samiti and Satya Foundation (SF) have started agitation against the acquisition of their fertile farming land for the proposed freight corridor of Indian Railways.

It was seen that during Singur and Nandigram episodes, all the opposition political parties including TMC, Congress, BJP, SUCI, Maoists and Naxalites had not only supported the violent agitation of Mamata Banerjee in the name of saving fertile agricultural land but also actively participated in the same. Besides, Mahasweta Devi and other ‘pseudo’ intellectuals and ‘so-called’ human rights activists had day and night campaigned vociferously against the Left Front Government and helped the agitators and goons in all possible ways to sabotage the industrial resurgence. Shri Lal Krishna Advani, Shri Amar Singh and other leaders of anti-Leftist national political parties had regularly been to Nandigram and Singur to add fuel to fire by expressing their solidarity with Mamata Banerjee and the agitators.

As a result, dreams of two major projects have been shattered. Opposition to government intervention in land acquisition helped Mamata Banerjee gain enormous political mileage, but it has left industry in West Bengal with Hobson’s choice

It is an irony that the same Mamata Banerjee has been now engaged in acquiring forcibly most fertile lands in seven states for Eastern and Western Dedicated Freight Corridors despite stiff and vehement opposition from the landowners and farmers. But the said political parties, national leaders, ‘pseudo’ intellectuals, Maoists, Naxalites and ‘so-called’ human rights activists are shamelessly silent on the matter. Nobody has yet met the affected farmers to give a patient hearing to them and address their grievances.

There cannot be separate rules for separates states in this country on acquisition of land. But yes, there is. Strange is the politics in this country.

The fact is that all forces ranging from ultra leftists to ultra rightists including those of communal, imperialist, finance capital and a section of media have ganged up with one and only aim to dislodge the Left Front Government anyway and at any cost. They donot abide by any logic, reason or fact. They with their obligation to imperialism went against all norms of civilized political behaviour and supported TMC which is nothing but a nuisance to Indian Politics dominated by one eccentric person devoid any ideology or policy

There is no denying the fact that hundreds of farmers have already committed suicide in Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat and other states. Thousands and thousands acres of fertile land has been acquired under duress in many states for industries and other developmental works depriving the farmers of their landed property. But none of the saviors of tribals, peasants and the underprivileged are seen in the picture to express their solidarity with the deprived. Is it not ambivalence?

The double standard, fraudulency and duplicity maintained by political frauds, perverted intellectuals and foreign funded human rights activists are nothing but mockery of democracy, integrity, transparency and honesty. These people stand exposed today. History will judge judiciously these swindlers working on the pay roll of imperialists, foreign finance capital and big business houses in the days to come and throw them into dustbin.

Friday, November 13, 2009

P. CHIDAMBRAM PLAYS FRAUD ON THE NATION

The German People and a section of the intelligentsia raised Hitler to power in 1933. Hitler became a dictator and plunged the whole of Germany into 2nd World War. At the end of the 2nd World War it was found that beside other losses at least one person from each and every family had lost his life as a result of the war.

Indira Gandhi created Bhindranwale and installed him at the Amritsar Golden Temple to counter the Akali Dal in Punjab Politics. Consequently, she had to repent by giving up her own life on 30th October 1984.

United States of America in collusion with Pakistan created Taliban to overthrow the Communist Government led by Nazibullah. Today Pakistan and its people are suffering immensely at the hands of Taliban.

Once, both Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi had supported L.T.T.E. and allowed it to open training centers on the soil of the country. Ultimately, Rajiv Gandhi had to pay high price by way of sacrificing his own life.

The people sitting at the helm affairs in New Delhi once supported the splinter groups of Kashmir to counter Seikh Abdullah, Farooq Abdullah and his party. Today Kashmir suffers for the same.

In Northeast separatists were once supported to create problems for the opposition led governments. The country has still been paying for the same.

The ruling party at the centre and its allies has not learnt any lesson from the past. Mamata Banerjee and her associates have brought Maoists into West Bengal and have been supporting all separatist forces to dislodge the ruling Left Front Government. These irresponsible political leaders have forgotten that politics will not end with the removal of the Left Front Government. The Frankenstein that they have created today for undermining the Leftists in order to gain electoral gains will also haunt them in future and they will have to face the same fate in the coming days as those of the present day victims.

P. CHIDAMBRAM PLAYS DRAMA IN THE NAME OF MAOISTS

Many possessed so far a high impression about Shri P. Chidambaram that he is a man of principle, integrity, honesty and functions above party lines. His fight and caution against Maoist menace in the country is genuine and guided by national interest. But his recent irresponsible, narrow and politically motivated utterances and brazen distortion of facts have shattered all these impressions.

He is the Home Minister of the country. So, he must have enough proof from his own intelligence source that Mamata Banerjee is actively hand in gloves with the Maoists. It is seen that the TMC and SUCI workers are openly working with the Maoists everywhere. The insurgence of Maoists in Nandigram, Singur, Arambagh, Mangalkote, Jangalmahal and other areas could not have been successful without the active help of the Railway Minister. It is an open secret that in Kolkata also Maoists are organizing rallies, processions, seminars and meetings in collusion with TMC and SUCI workers in broad daylight. The hijacking of the Rajdhani Express at Banstala Railway Station was no exception to this. The role played by the Indian Railways is sufficient to prove the nexus between Mamata Banerjee and the Maoists.

There is no denying the fact that the Left Front Government is the biggest obstruction to the implementation of Privatization, Globalization and Liberalization followed by the UPA Government. West Bengal is the only state where land reforms have been implemented successfully. Apart from this, the Coalition Government has been running successfully for the last 32 years. Elections to all local bodies are held democratically and timely. It is standing as an exemplary political formation and pillar of the mainstream leftists. The Congress Party believes in one party rule. So, removal of the Left Front Government is necessary not only for the Central Government but also for the imperialists, foreign finance capital and landlords to pave way for their own vested interests.

The aim and objective of P. Chidambram, Mamata Banerjee and the Maoist leader Kishanji is one and same that is removal of the Left Front Government and installation of Mamata Banerjee as the next Chief Minister of West Bengal anyhow and at any cost. So, all of them have been working in unison covertly and/or overtly to undermine the same.

In spite of knowing fully that only the CPI (M) is the victim of the brutalities committed by the Maoists along with TMC and SUCI, he most irresponsibly commented that the Maoists and the CPI (M) are friends. His words supporting the collaborators of a banned organization are guided by narrow political considerations for obtaining electoral gains at the cost of the nation. It is also aimed at to demoralize or maneuver the joint forces fighting against the Maoists; otherwise why it could not yet bring the Maoist activities in Jangalmahal under control. This sort of anti-national attitude on his part is unbecoming of a Home Minister. Moreover, his so-called fight against Maoists is nothing but eyewash; otherwise he would not have played this sort of duplicity and fraudulence with the nation. It proves beyond doubt that the nation is not safe at the hands of this gentleman who himself is politically biased, prejudiced and unfair.

He must keep in mind that in the same manner Indira Gandhi had created Bhindranwale and installed him at the Amritsar Golden Temple to counter the Akali Dal in Punjab Politics. Consequently, she had to pay price by giving up her own life on 30th October 1984 at the hands of Khalistanis.

As a matter of fact, the Maoist problem in West Bengal is a joint venture of P. Chidambram, Mamata Banerjee and the Maoist leader Kishanji aiming at destabilizing the Left Front Government consisting of the mainstream Leftist parties.

Monday, November 9, 2009

MAOIST RAILWAY MINISTER REMOVES ALL CHAIRMEN OF RAILWAY RECRUITMENT BOARDS TO FILL UP 1, 72,444 GROUP ‘C’ AND ‘D’ VACANT POSTS WITH MAOIST-TMC MAFIA G

The Maoist Railway Minister has all on a sudden removed 20 chairmen of the Railway Recruit Boards out 21 in the country before expiry of their term without assigning any reason thereof and appointed her own sycophants and men in their place. Almost all the removed officials were senior officials of the Indian Railways and appointed during the regime of her predecessor. This pre-planned action on her part is unprecedented in the history of the Indian Railways.

Now, the following pertinent questions have arisen very logically and reasonably.

(1) What were the grounds for their removal?

(2) If they are engaged in corruption or are inefficient, why the same have not yet been made public?

(3) If they were engaged in corruption, why action on that basis has not yet been initiated against them?

(4) What are the qualifications of those appointed newly in their places?

(5) Are all the newly appointed Chairmen honest and efficient?

In this connection, it would be not out of place to mention that 1, 72,444 vacancies in the Group ‘C’ and ‘D’ posts are lying vacant in the railways. The TMC leaders and workers have been distributing forms in different places of West Bengal for appointment in these vacant railway posts.

Maoist Mamata Banerjee thinks the Indian Railways is her own private property. The above-mentioned action of the Maoist Railway Minister is to pave way for the appointment of Maoist-TMC Mafia goons in the 1, 72,444 vacancies illegally throwing to winds all recruitment rules and regulations. So, she needs her own men on the Railway Recruitment Boards in 20 cities of the country.

It is pertinent to mention that she has already appointed Subhaprasanna Bhattacharjee, Shaoli Mitra and other Maoist ‘pseudo’ intellectuals on different committee of the railways at the cost of huge public money. She did not stop here. She has provided them with life-long Free A.C. Railway Passes with one companion for campaigning in her favour in the last Parliamentary Elections, 2009.

The Prime Minister should cause immediately a detailed and thorough enquiry into the reshuffle of the Railway Recruitment Boards and place the fact before all in national interest because Indian Railways is not the private property of any individual or political party.

MAOIST MAMATA BANERJEE! STOP PERFORMING TRICKS AND FEATS OF POLITICAL JUGGLERY

As the Railway Minister in the NDA Government, Mamata Banerjee had laid the foundation stone of bridge on river Ganges at Naihati between Naihati and Bandel in West Bengal on 26th June 2002 and named it Bankim Bridge. The stone still remains exposed and shining. The construction work is going on and 40% to 45% of the same is almost complete.

It is ridiculous to find that Mamata Banerjee has again inaugurated the construction of the same bridge for the 2nd time on 08-11-2009 spending extravagantly huge public money in the midst of her sycophants, perverted intellectuals and Maoist-TMC goons. This time she has renamed it as “Sampriti Bridge”. This is unprecedented in the history of not only the Indian Railway but also that of the country.

Since her taking over the charge of the Railway Ministry, the number of accidents, accidental deaths and damage to railway properties by her ally the Maoists have increased manifold. Instead of giving attention to the safety and security of the passengers and the railway properties, she has shamelessly been performing political circus and gimmick at the cost of the public money for petty political gains. Most of the time she remains in West Bengal engaged in creating a reign of terror and lawlessness wherever she goes, inaugurating old trains in new names and other political stunts and drama.

The Prime Minister should look into this matter and advise her to discharge her constitutional responsibilities instead of performing tricks and feats of political jugglery.

MAOIST RAILWAY MINISTER LANDS INDIAN RAILWAYS IN A MESS

The Adra Division of the Eastern Railways has been under constant attack of the Maoist Mafias for the last two years. This division falls within the Maoist Mafia infested Jangalmahal area. The railway employees of this have been working with their life in their hands. Their life has become more unsafe and risky with the installation of Maoist Mamata Banerjee as the Railway Minister. Both the Maoists and the TMC goons roam together with arms in these areas. Many officials and employees suffering from insecurity are trying to get themselves transferred to other divisions. The Maoist-TMC goons often come to the railway officials in search for names and addresses of the contractors so as to extort from them. Besides, the TMC goons are trying to force the railway officials to employ their own men.

The Railway Protection Force could not take any action against the Maoist-TMC goons. The gang men, gate men and porter men have to work on the railway tracks in isolated places without any security. There are no firearms in the hands of the R.P.F. guarding trains from Chandil to Purulia Railway Station. The few R.P.F. with arms on 315 UP Chakradharpur-Howrah Train passing through Maoist infested areas always remain panicky.

The detention of Rajdhani Express by Maoists at Banstala Railway Station on 27th October, 2009 in collusion with the Maoist Railway Minister for the release of Maoist leader Chatradhar Mahato has increased their panic and apprehension manifold. A few glaring examples of the sabotage caused by the Maoists in collusion with TMC in the said division are furnished as hereunder.

(1) The Maoist-TMC goons blow up the railway station of Biramdih falling in between Adra-Chandil Section on 26-06-2007.

(2) Posters threatening the railway employees of Biramdih Railway Station were pasted on 14th August 2007.

(3) Heavy damage was caused to the Biramdih Railway Station on 13th May 2008 being the previous day of the Bandh called by the Maoists.

(4) A R.P.F man was killed and his arm was snatched at Barabhum Railway Station.

(5) The gang men recovered a landmine planted at the Biramdih Railway Station on 22nd June 2009.

(6) Bob blast by Maoists near Ursha Railway Station.

(7) Blowing up railway tracks between Ursha and Kantadih Railway Station by Maoists on 2nd October 2009.

(8) The detention of Bhubaneswar-New Delhi Rajdhani Express at Banstala Railway Station by Maoist-TMC goons for the release of Maoist terrorist Chatradhar Mahato.

It is high time that the Prime Minister should cause a detailed enquiry by CBI into the activities of the Maoist Railway Minister so as to ensure safety and security of not only the railway passengers but also the entire railways in national interest.