CPI(M)'s no to Joint Parliamentary delegation to Nandigram

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New Delhi, Mar 16 (UNI) The CPI (M) today said the BJP's demand for sending a Joint Parliamentary delegation to Nandigram would vitiate the federal framework of the Constitution and Parliamentary propriety.

''It is unfortunate that the BJP by raising the demand is pursuing its political agenda which will have serious consequences on the policy and Centre- state relations,'' said party Parliamentary group leader Sitaram Yehchury.

At a press conference, Mr Yechury said BJP Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Jaswant Singh raised the demand for a Joint Parliamentary delegation to Nandigram today, which ''was not only unprecedented but also an unhealthy practice.'' It was unfortunate that the BJP repeatedly forced adjournments yesterday of both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, Mr Yechury said adding that the Rajya Sabha was adjourned on this issue today also.

Mr Yechury, flanked by party senior leaders Basudeb Acharia and Mohammad Salim, replied to a number of queries relating to Nandigram in the larger perspective of ''forcible shift'' from agrarian economy to industrialisation, the use of ''brutal force'' against the farmers, the Left partners' disagreement and party veteran Jyoti Basu's caution to Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee against taking ''any unilateral'' decisions.

Mr Yechury told UNI that his party was already acting upon the advice of Mr Basu as it had been telling the people that no land would be required without the consent of the farmers.

He also denied that the All party Meeting did not discuss the issue of sending police to Nandigram as was being claimed by the LDF partners -- the Forward Bloc and the RSP.

The Left leaders asserted that the Nandigram incident or the Naxalites armed attack on police post in Chhattisgarh were essentially state subjects and different from those of communal violence and atrocities on Dalits.

''The BJP's demand is totally unjustified and violative of the spirit of federalism and the constitution,'' Mr Yechury said adding that since 1952 there had been not a single instance when a Joint Parliamentary delegation was sent on an issue of a law and order.

Mr Yechury made it clear that his party was not ''scared'' about the JPD visiting Nandigram. ''But since the CBI has started its work there and it has to give its report within seven days, the BJP's hue and cry and disrupting the proceedings of the House is not rational.'' Replying to questions relating to West Bengal governor's criticism of the police firing, Mr Yechury remarked that it was a matter of constitutional propriety and that it would not be wise for him to comment. ''Let him (the governor) take up the matter with the state government.'' On the death of farmers in Nandigram, the Left leaders said ''in the cross firing it is only the innocent who become the victims,'' while adding that some of the the deceased were CPI(M) cadres. ''The armed gangs belonging to the Trinamool Congress and the naxalites and the Maoists are roaming about in the area. They have virtually laid seige to the area and have hampered the normal civic life. Our first priority is to restore law and order there,'' they said.

In reply to a question on how the Maoists or the Naxalites were able to gain ground in West Bengal, the Left leaders said this was not confined to WB only and was a national phenomenon.

UNI

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