NANDIGRAM: For the first time in the last eleven months, West Bengal CPI-M leaders on Tuesday visited Nandigram and alleged a 'false' propaganda has been launched against the party that it was unleashing violence to recapture the area.
''A false propaganda has been launched against the CPI-M that it is unleashing violence while our own partymen faced atrocities from Bhumi Ucched Pratirodh Committee (backed by Trinamool Congress) who were joined by Maoists,'' Shyamal Chakraborty, a CPI-M central committee member, said after visiting Hazrakata and Osmanchak.
He also charged that Maoists were active in Nandigram and targetting CPI-M supporters.
Chakraborty, former Transport Minister, said they would submit a memorandum to the district magistrate of East Midnapore on 'atrocities' of CPI-M supporters by BUPC supporters and Maoists in Nandigram.
The CPI-M team comprising Chakraborty, Md Selim, MP and Shyamali Gupta, president of the party's state women wing, stopped at Hazrakata, Rajaramchak, Osmanchak, Garchakraberia and Sonachura among other places in Nandigram.
They were greeted with slogans by partymen who narrated the 'atrocities' of the BUPC.
People in Hazrakata complained about the Maoist presence in their areas. Maoist posters threatening CPI-M leaders were found in the village recently.
Some people at Sonachura said a Maoist leader from Chhatisgarh Sukumar Banerjee had camped at their village.
Some also complained that they were harrassed by CRPF.
The CPI-M team also visited Rajaramchak party office which was burnt down allegedly by BUPC and the house of a party worker at Bhangabera which was torched after he was killed.
The CPI-M has convened a public meeting in Nandigram on Wednesday while state Congress has urged the administration not to give permission for such a meeting contending it might create fresh tension and peace process there.
