Sinister forces out to destabilise and dislodge WB Govt: CPI(M)

Kolkata, Apr 5 (UNI) Warning that forces of destablisation were out to dislodge the West Bengal Government by fomenting trouble in the state, CPI(M) leaders today called upon the partymen to reach out to the people to frustrate any such design.

Addressing a programme on the occasion of the 50th anniversary installation of the first Communist Government in Kerala, CPI(M) Polit Bureau members E Balanandan and Biman Basu alleged that the Trinamool Congress-led Opposition were trying to implement the same model in West Bengal.

'' On this occasion, we must keep in mind the situation that led to the dismissal of the EMS Namboodiripad Government in Kerala in 1959. The very model is being sought to be implemented in West Bengal by Ms Mamata Banerjee and others, '' Mr Balanandan said.

Left Front Chairman and CPI(M) State Secretary Biman Basu also apprehended that 'national and international reactionary forces' might attack to dislodge the Budhdhadeb Bhattacharjee Government as it happened in the past.

This was for the first time after the recently held CPI(M) Central Committee and Polit Bureau meetings that the party leaders aired their voice on the post-Nandigram situation.

Referring to the violence in Nandigram and the subsequent uproar, Mr.Balanandan alleged that it was a part of an overall design of the Opposition that led to the police firing to pave way for raising an outcry.

'' Since they could not be elected to power, they are now trying other means, as it had been done in Kerala--to attack police and force them to fire, '' he said.

Asserting that industrialisation was 'inevitable' in West Bengal, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said his Government would go ahead on the track of development despite the Opposition movement.

Alleging that those 'crying' over land acquisition were actually trying to 'scuttle' the state's development, Mr Bhattacharjee said that heterogenous forces had teamed up to whip up tesnion, but the Left Government would overcome it.

He also alleged that besides toppling the Kerala Government, the then Congress Government at the Centre had dismissed twice the United Front Government in West Bengal in 1967 and 1969.

'' Reactionary forces always combine at the time of social elevation...there is a strange allaince among parties like the Trinamool Congress, Congress, BJP and Naxalites against us...but we shall go ahead with our goal, '' he said.

'' Industry is inevitable to strengthen the agricultural sector.

We have to set up new industries for the new generation besides protecting and strengthening agriculture, '' Mr Bhattacharjee said.

In what appeared to cheer up the audience, attended largely by members of the CPI(M), the organiser of the programme, the Chief Minister said it was the Left Front Government which had worked for farmers by allotting 83 per cent of the state's agricultural land to the landless through its land reforms programme.

'' We know what is the importance of land. We shall continue the process of vesting more land and distributing them among the landless peasants. But those who had always been with landlords are singing in a different tune when a move is on for industrialisation, '' he said.

'' No society can say that agriculture is the last word. This is suicidal. To safeguard agriculture we have to go for industrialisation. But we have to do that cautiously, '' Mr Bhattacharjee said.

UNI