Nandigram: SUCI asks for govt's resignation

New Delhi, Mar 17: Condemning the killing of innocent farmers at Nandigram, Socialist Unity Centre of India has demanded resignation of the CPI(M)-led West Bengal government.

The pseudo-communist government of West Bengal resorted to forcibly snatching cultivable land and homestead of the peasants to satiate the lust of the land-hungry and greedy domestic as well as foreign monopolistic companies, SUCI General Secretary Nihar Mukherjee said in a statement.

Demanding immediate end to this barbaric fascistic armed operations, he called upon the people of the state, carrying a glorious tradition of raising voice of protest against all sorts of injustice and felonious acts, to rise in revolt against the anti-people pro-capitalist government, he added.

he Front expressed grief over the Nandigram police firing, that kicked up a national outcry, and resolved to remain alert against recurrence of such incidents in future. ''The Nandigram incident is most regrettable. The Government has to be alert so that such incidents do not recur,'' Mr Basu said. Ruling out any major differences within the Front, Mr Basu, however, asserted that there was total unity among the coalition partners and it would remain in future.

''All representatives of the constituent parties are unanimous that there was unity in the Front in the past, it is there in the present and it will remain in future,'' he said.

However, even amid the pressure from partners, the CPI(M) managed to extract a decision in its favour when the meeting slapped a ban on any Minister to speak out in public against any constituent party.

The decision was significant since a few Front ministers, including Mr Nandagopal Bhattacharyay of the CPI, made open statements criticising the CPI(M) for its ''unilateral'' attitude.

The three dissident partners also alleged that the state Government virtually turned into a CPI(M) Government and no more was it a Government run by the coalition partners.

The other decisions the meeting took today was to hold ''more frequent'' Left Front meetings and go for bipartite parleys with all partners, if necessary, to ensure a truly democratic process of decision making and activate the core committee within the Front.

UNI