In the 50th year of Naxalbari Uprising, West Bengal is now witnessing a peasant movement at the rural areas of Bhangar near Kolkata. The peasants are up in struggle against the forceful acquisition of thirteen acres of fertile agricultural land for a power grid project of 400KV. The students of different colleges and universities too have played a praiseworthy role in this struggle. A team of AISA led by Ranajoy Sengupta and Nabakumar Biswas visited Bhangar recently to meet the struggling people. They also met the bereaved families of the Mafijul and Alamgir, the two young men who were killed by the police. They also met the fighting men who were seriously injured during the torture unleashed by the police and the TMC goons. The AISA comrades were inspired by the fighting spirit of the Bhangar people and pledged to propagate its message all over the State.
On March 20, CPI(ML) activists protested in front of the South 24 Parganas District police office against the police onslaught unleashed upon the Bhangar peasants. Two youths had been killed by the police accompanied by the ruling TMC goons and several persons including elderly women had been severely injured. Many were arrested including some civil liberty organizers and supporters of the movement. Some of them were charged with the draconian UAPA act and many other non-bailable sections. A memorandum was submitted to the SP by a delegation led by the CPI(ML) State Secretary Partha Ghosh after the mass meeting held during the protest.
