Singur farmer commits suicide - Mamata’s (The Devils) Luck
I can’t understand why people generally have a feel that we Indians are laidback? Are we really so? Well I don’t think so. If you just follow the pattern of how swiftly our politicians make hay while the sun shines on issues - with no relation whatsoever with what they are trying to profess, then believe me it will be a revelation of sorts.
Take a look at incidents that happened today – A Singur farmer commits suicide. Within an hour, Mamata and her brigade of phony politicos rushed to the site and fused the death with the Tata car factory. Means how Stupid can one be? Is Mamata aware of the number of farmers’ suicides happening in this country on a daily basis? Well she ought to get her facts correct - There have been some 250-farmer suicides in just the first three months of this year. Things could be a lot worse after June. And, as always, the farm suicides are a symptom of the crisis, not its cause. And the crisis has nothing to do with Tata motors. It has everything to do with our agrarian society; our ill structured socio economic policies of the past - though unfortunately the harbingers of prosperity are being penalized today. In Singur it is the Tata group which is bearing the brunt of our ill regulated past and of hungry vote bank politicos. All in all one has to read the PTI flash. It seems PTI too didn’t pay any heed to what the Prime Minister had advised the media yesterday– that it had to be more responsible and not act in the vulgar manner in which it acts today - just to sensationalize. The PTI news flash on the suicide is just that - its vulgar to the extent that it would have done better if it had been flashed under the name of MNS – Mamata News Service. - Read it for yourself :ZCZC
PRI GEN NAT
.SINGUR CAL1
TATA-FARMER
Singur farmer commits suicide
Singur (WB), May 25 (PTI) A Singur farmer, whose land was acquired
for Tata Motors small car project, allegedly committed suicide today.
The body of Prasanta Das, an inhabitant of Khaserbheri village
which is part of the project site, was found hanging from a tree
this morning, police said.
Investigations are on into the cause of his death, they said.
Das was one of the earliest members of the Trinamool Congress-backed
anti-displacement Krishi Jomi Bachao Committee and had not taken
the compensation money from the West Bengal government, its convenor
Becharam Manna claimed.
The Das family, consisting of three brothers, their wives and
children were dependent on the one-and-half acres owned by it and
was taken over for the car project. This had caused distress to the
family, Manna claimed.
A similar incident had taken place here in February when another
cultivator Haradhan Bag, whose land had been acquired without his
consent, had committed suicide.
A protest rally would be taken out in the evening by the Committee,
when it would also hold a law violation programme on the occasion
of the first anniversary of agitation against land acquisition here.
Trinamool general secretary and Rajya Sabha MP Mukul Roy has
rushed to the spot. PTI COR SBR KK
SJY
05251238 DEL
And Finally Dear Mamata few Statistics for you -
Farmer Suicides – What’s New?
•Country with the largest number of malnourished children
•India one of 17 countries where number of undernourished increased substantially in the late 1990s
•1/5th of India’s population suffers from chronic hunger
•In the past few years the Supreme Court has more than once pulled up six states over starvation deaths
•Last five years has seen a slide-back to levels of hunger in rural areas not seen for over 50 years
•17 million tonnes of surplus food is exported at below poverty prices every year. And the rest is fed on by rats in Food Corporation of India Godowns.
•Farmer suicides over the past years has become a regular occurrence – 3000 farmers annually in Punjab, over 2000 farmers in a single district Anantpur in AP in 2002, 478 farmers in Karnataka in 2003 (between April to November)
Mamata, do you really care? ? Do you ?
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So true. Farmer suicides are a part and parcel of this country. Its very sad, that our politicians have a 1 vision view. They just see vote numbers. Every human life just counts as another extra vote for them - nothing more nothing less. How many farmer's in West Bengal commit suicide in a month ? Mamata wouldnt have any answer to that. How many times did she visit the household of other farmers who commited suicide other then in the district of Singur? PLEASE, CAN MAMATA ANSWER ?
The lengths people go to take credit for things and discredit others for petty stuff, has become the latest pastime for everybody.
There are a millions of villages and thousands of towns in India but the media refuses to shift the focus elsewhere, trying to ignite feelings of hatred, blame and self pity.
There have been instances of people giving up their lands for important projects even if it meant they had to giving up their livelihood so that other could benefit be it the Golden Quadrilateral or Dams.
If the politicians are so worried about the affected people why do they not bargain for them , train them , get them land, relocate them , arent there no migrants in Kolkata who may have lost his land to the zamindaars or the money lender who is under debt and his only hope of survival is the big city whose path is paved of gold.
Why do they not then reverse the trend of people leaving big cities and finding jobs and employment in smaller towns and villages,because they have no employement to offer.
Who is to blame the Government or the private sector, and the government time and again has proved its incompentence to even provide the basic facilities to the common man.
And when a corporate offers to do the same, they are criticised branded as the worst enemy after the British Raj and is made the scape goat and all bad things are attributed to them.
Dont we need to introspect and find for answers?
Is there a way I can send you a personal email? Alternatively, could you please email me at arv.jayan@gmail.com?
Like yourself, I too am SICK and TIRED of how ineffective our governance structures are. Merely sitting on our butts and blogging won't do. We need to act. Blaming the politicians is about as effective as blaming, say, hyenas for acting like hyenas.
What needs to happen is for a strongly nationalistic group of Indians to come together and do some Chanakyan thinking. My idea is very simple: collect VERY HUGE amounts of money, and bribe individuals (babus, politicians, media people, etc.) to implement policies that are pro-progress. They will follow our agenda, and in return, we will make them very, very rich. USD 50K-200K may be a small amount for a wide campaign, but it will be effective in gaining the attention of individual politicians.
You up for it?
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