CPI(M) Polit Bureau to take up recent issues in its next meeting

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Kolkata, Feb 9 (UNI) Taking a serious note of the recent development in West Bengal regarding acquisition of land and setting up of SEZs, the CPI(M) Polit Bureau will take it up for discussion at its next meeting.

The disagreement within the ruling Left Front has cropped up over the acquisition of agricultural land and setting up of SEZs.

Party general secretary Prakash Karat, who arrived in the city a day after the Front partners blocked the proposed amendment to the Land Acquisition Act, today participated in the state secretariate meeting, which discussed threadbare the problems the government was facing to speed up the process of industrialisation.

''Prakash today came here and we have discussed the issues. Our Polit Bureau will sort out the differences among the Front partners over the Land Acquisition Amendment Bill, besides the national and international issues, '' veteran leader Jyoti Basu told the reporters after their meeting.

The CPI(M) Polit Bureau meeting will be held in New Delhi on February 17 and 18.

However, Mr Basu would not be able to attend it on health ground.

The decision to make the state's issue an agenda for the Polit Bureau was taken at a separate meeting of the four Polit Bureau members -- Mr Jyoti Basu, Mr Biman Basu and Chief Minister Budhhadeb Bhattacharjee beside the general secretary -- after the state secretariate meet.

In what may be described as a retreat of the Chief Minister, Front partner Forward Bloc and CPI vetoed at a crucial meeting yesterday the proposed Bill, which was mooted to cater to the state's industrial needs.

Disagreeing widely with the CPI(M), the partners objected to giving away farmland for industry, insisting that the Bill, fraught with danger for the peasantry should not be presented in the Assembly in its present form before removing the 'flawed' provisions and plugging the loopholes.

The Bill proposed exemption for industrial, commercial and infrastructural ventures from under the purview of the present land selling on acquiring agricultural land.

The present Act enacted by the ruling government permits land holding above the permissible ceilings only for tea gardens and mills.

The smaller partners were highly critical about the nature of the Bill and the way land was being sought to be acquired for industry in West Bengal. The development came significantly at a time when the Left Front government was facing a stiff resistance from a united Opposition, including the Trinamool Congress and naxalites, on the issues of Singur and Nandigram.

UNI

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