Nandigam uproar stalls both houses of Parliament
Leaders of CPM call Nandigram lawlessness a state subject ,a law and order situation and the right wing BJP led NDA put up the issue violence in Nandigram as national issue and hence the debate in Parliament is as per the law.Nandigram has achieved a international news as the violence continued and TC leaders Mamta with other social activist have been the front runner to seek peace in the area with amicable settlement with farmers whose lands are being acquired.
“Quite clearly we cannot afford to have a situation where — whether they call them cadres or goons or part of any particular group or party — to take the law into their hands, and not be able to get matters sorted out,” said Mr Naraynanan,National Security Advisor
Stray violence and disruption of road and rail traffic today marred a general strike called by naxalites in parts of West Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand protesting CPI(M)"s recapture of Nandigram as the shutdown evoked mixed response.Naxals blew up a portion of a rail track in Birbhum district of West Bengal disrupting train services during the bandh which also affected life in their strongholds of West Midnapore, Bankura and Purulia districts.
Barring a few naxalite strongholds in Gaya, Jehanabad, Arwal and Aurangabad districts, vehicular traffic remained normal everywhere.
Train services were, however, marginally hit with the East Central Railway cancelling a few trains and changing the routes of a few others as a precautionary measure
Both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha rocked on the issue today, there is no immediate end in sight for smooth transaction of business in the brief session. The political developments in Karnataka are expected to be raised tomorrow. which is underplayed.A scene of confrontation today when the BJP gave notice for an adjournment motion on the Nandigram issue in the Lok Sabha, whose wording made the Left see red.
Leader of the House Pranab Mukherjee and Leader of the Opposition L K Advani have been asked by Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee to work out a draft of the discussion that is acceptable to all parties.The draft proposed by the government does not name Nandigram but seeks a discussion on the ‘extremist violence in Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal", sources said.The adjournment motion was not accepted by the Speaker as the issue pertains to the state government and not the Centre.
The BJP-led NDA today, however, remained firm on its demand for a “Nandigram-specific" discussion in Parliament, rejecting CPI(M)"s suggestion that the issue should be part of a wider debate on Special Economic Zone or Maoist violence.
The main Opposition party made it clear that it will not allow the Parliament to function unless Nandigram violence was taken up for discussion and rejected Government"s contention that it was a law and order issue, which is a state subject.
Senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi, who has already moved a motion in Rajya Sabha for a debate on Nandigram on Monday, launched a sharp attack on Congress for remaining “silent" on Nandigram violence allegedly by CPI-M cadres and said his party wanted a debate on the issue in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.
“It is highly surprising that Congress is silent on Nandigram. Just because CPI-M is backing UPA government at the Centre, it is improper to forgive its cadre as Nandigram was made a war zone", Joshi told reporters in Bhubaneshwar.
He said no senior Congress leader, neither party chief Sonia Gandhi nor Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, visited Nandigram.
“It seems Congress is quiet on Nandigram either to save the UPA government led by it at the Centre or to make CPI-M soften its stand on Indo-US nuclear deal", the former Union minister alleged.
“Quite clearly we cannot afford to have a situation where — whether they call them cadres or goons or part of any particular group or party — to take the law into their hands, and not be able to get matters sorted out,” said Mr Naraynanan,National Security Advisor
Stray violence and disruption of road and rail traffic today marred a general strike called by naxalites in parts of West Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand protesting CPI(M)"s recapture of Nandigram as the shutdown evoked mixed response.Naxals blew up a portion of a rail track in Birbhum district of West Bengal disrupting train services during the bandh which also affected life in their strongholds of West Midnapore, Bankura and Purulia districts.
Barring a few naxalite strongholds in Gaya, Jehanabad, Arwal and Aurangabad districts, vehicular traffic remained normal everywhere.
Train services were, however, marginally hit with the East Central Railway cancelling a few trains and changing the routes of a few others as a precautionary measure
Both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha rocked on the issue today, there is no immediate end in sight for smooth transaction of business in the brief session. The political developments in Karnataka are expected to be raised tomorrow. which is underplayed.A scene of confrontation today when the BJP gave notice for an adjournment motion on the Nandigram issue in the Lok Sabha, whose wording made the Left see red.
Leader of the House Pranab Mukherjee and Leader of the Opposition L K Advani have been asked by Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee to work out a draft of the discussion that is acceptable to all parties.The draft proposed by the government does not name Nandigram but seeks a discussion on the ‘extremist violence in Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal", sources said.The adjournment motion was not accepted by the Speaker as the issue pertains to the state government and not the Centre.
The BJP-led NDA today, however, remained firm on its demand for a “Nandigram-specific" discussion in Parliament, rejecting CPI(M)"s suggestion that the issue should be part of a wider debate on Special Economic Zone or Maoist violence.
The main Opposition party made it clear that it will not allow the Parliament to function unless Nandigram violence was taken up for discussion and rejected Government"s contention that it was a law and order issue, which is a state subject.
Senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi, who has already moved a motion in Rajya Sabha for a debate on Nandigram on Monday, launched a sharp attack on Congress for remaining “silent" on Nandigram violence allegedly by CPI-M cadres and said his party wanted a debate on the issue in both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.
“It is highly surprising that Congress is silent on Nandigram. Just because CPI-M is backing UPA government at the Centre, it is improper to forgive its cadre as Nandigram was made a war zone", Joshi told reporters in Bhubaneshwar.
He said no senior Congress leader, neither party chief Sonia Gandhi nor Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, visited Nandigram.
“It seems Congress is quiet on Nandigram either to save the UPA government led by it at the Centre or to make CPI-M soften its stand on Indo-US nuclear deal", the former Union minister alleged.
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