[Reader-list] CPM & Paranoid Disorder

Sun Mar 30 21:41:27 IST 2008

I agree with dipanjan-da's observation because the police report has univocally saw the ghost of "naxalism" including the "ex" ones who are now into teaching. even with an overwhelming numerical majority in the state, CPM's paranoid disorder with "naxal menance" did not go away! this only proves the psychiatric theory to be correct that this IS paranoid disorder, which did not go away by accessing so much power. however, this is "Collective Paranoia" and SUPPLYING SO MUCH OF ANTI-PSYCHOTIC MEDICINE for long would be another governmental problem! also how medicines could be negotiated is another political problem!!
  amit basu

radhikarajen at vsnl.net wrote:
  Hi all, 

what else do you expect from a political party which has iron fist to throttle dissent and talk of freedom using the "intellectials " as front to dictatorship, be it China or West Bengal, dissent is always handled by the goons of the politburo with violent reprisals.
Only issue now is the rest of the country is free of such goons, and vote share has gone down less than 5 percent of voters of the nation for the left partis by these tactics, their presence in Kerala is flip flop of no choice election after election as both the fronts have strong goons to take violence to suppress dissent.
Regards. 

----- Original Message -----
From: ranu ghosh 
Date: Sunday, March 30, 2008 12:03 pm
Subject: [Reader-list] pl go through
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> please circulate widely
> 
> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:39:26 +0530
> From: "Abhee Dutt-Mazumder" 
> Subject: Fwd: Sibpur BESU
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Dear Friends,
> Why did students write on blank answer- scripts "Save BESU from
> becoming a Nandigram"?
> 
> The students of Sibpur BESU are facing an assault of the college
> administration-local goons-police. The Vice-chancellor Nikhil Ranjan
> Banerjea is orchestrating the assault, the aim of which is to
> terrorize students into joining or supporting the students' wing of
> the major ruling party. It is not an accident that all those who are
> being arrested by the police are distinguished by their non-allegiance
> to this students' organisation. The enthusiasm of the police is, no
> doubt, linked to the fact that the son of Mohd. Selim, of the CPI(M),
> is a student of BESU at present (not admitted through the Joint
> Entrance Examinations, as reported).
> 
> The evil nexus has cleverly used the incident of a brawl under the
> effect of drink to go into the assault mode against the students,
> while
> (1) masking the real scenario, pretending that the question is 
> one of
> discipline, and
> (2) beating up non-SFI students mercilessly in the name of 
> enforcing order.
> 
> The campus has been cut off and the media are not admitted in. So,
> March 20-24, during which the students were continuously assaulted by
> goons and the police, who even entered the girls' hostel, and the
> authorities kept up a relentless pressure to join the SFI, little news
> of the magnitude of the atrocities and the flagrant political thrust
> of the BESU administration reached the media.
> 
> Taken aback at first, the students of BESU have rallied back to
> protest against the atrocities, returning blank sheets in the
> examinations which commenced on March 24, and participating in a
> sit-in at Metro channel of Esplanade.
> 
> A fact-sheet prepared by the students is given below. Also attached
> are letters written by the students to the VC and the Registrar, as
> well as a copy of a mass petition against one Afaz-Uddin Ahmed.
> 
> Please circulate widely.
> 
> Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri
> 
> 
> FACTSHEET
> 
> In chronological order:
> 
> 07.09.2007:
> A notice ( memo no. RDO-2/1387) had been issued by the registrar where
> it was notified that four final year students (UG) and six 3rd year
> students (UG) were suspended and instructed to vacate their respective
> hostels with immediate effect for an indefinite period of time. 
> But in
> the aforementioned notice, lots of irregularities have been found,
> which are mentioned below:
> · It is clearly mentioned in the notice that inquiries against
> the students alleged to have committed misdemeanors, were pending.
> Then, we would like to know, how, without proper inquiry, were the 10
> students slapped with such harsh punishment?
> · We have found that one of the accused students viz. Tanmoy
> Chatterjee (3rd yr. Metallurgy) was not present in the university
> campus on the date on which alleged incident took place. He had in
> fact, gone to visit his friend's ailing mother, at Peerless Hospital.
> Then how did his name crop up in the notice?
> 
> 
> So it is explicit that the accused 10 students had been wrongly framed
> and suspended on the basis of some fabricated allegations. We are
> amazed and upset at this sort of bias on the part of the authority.
> 
> 12.12. 2007:
> " A second year student (U.G) named Afaz-Uddin Ahmed of the Dept. of
> Information Technology is fomenting trouble & violence in the
> University campus for the last one year. He, with the help of some of
> his batch mates is explicitly trying to disturb the peace & 
> harmony of
> the University campus by infusing dirty politics in the affairs
> related to the students & inciting violence in the University campus,
> thus denting the integrity among the students. It had been reported
> to the concerned authority that he was found to behave in the most
> unacceptable manner and even has the audacity to manhandle some of his
> seniors. Presently he has taken his grudge to such an extent that he
> is threatening his own batch mates of dire consequences if they do not
> pay their "allegiance" to him. Now he has become so desperate that he
> is even trying to scare them by threatening that he will take
> "revenge" by waging his animosity against their families. It has been
> heard that a guardian of his batch mate has received threatening calls
> from an anonymous phone number, which is unprecedented in the history
> of this 150 year old institution. There is no denying the fact that
> his activities are unbecoming of a student of such a reputed
> institution.
> We had lodged several complaints against him to the concerned
> authority, but unfortunately all have gone unheeded. If he is testing
> our patience, we would like to make it clear that we will no longer
> remain as silent victims of his inhuman acts. It is unfortunate to
> inform you that his motive of gaining narrow political mileage is
> explicitly getting the patronage of some of the office bearers of
> BESU, as found in yesterday night's incident at hostel 9.But
> unfortunately the University authority is trying to overlook his
> heinous activities because of his outside political support. " 
> (From a
> mass petition by the students)
> When we drew the attention of our faculty members to this matter and
> submitted a mass petition to the Dean of Students (PICSA) on
> 12.12.2007, the authority came under pressure to act and 
> constituted a
> disciplinary committee. But on the very day (13th December, 2007),
> Students' Federation of India staged a rally and intentionally
> fomented panic among the students. And the result was imposition of
> section 144 in the campus, a black day for us. The "Afaaz" issue,
> thus, died down.
> 
> 19.3.2008:
> Three 2nd year students returning to their hostels at around 10 p.m.
> were ragged and racially abused by few boarders of "Wolfenden Hall",
> as they were natives from outside West Bengal. They were physically
> assaulted and two 2nd year students sustained head injuries. Police
> forces were called in to control the situation. However, the boarders
> of "Wolfenden Hall" continued to resort to violent means in spite of
> the presence of police and faculty members. Two of the Wolfenden
> boarders were caught red handed with hockey sticks (it is to be noted
> that there is no hockey team in our university) by the faculty
> members. But, on insistence of Prof.Bhawani Prasad Mukhopadhay, the
> two were released with no charges being levied against them.
> 
> 
> 20.3.2008:
> In the evening, party cadres brutally assaulted few students at the
> first gate of the university in front of R.A.F. SFI supporters helped
> them by pointing out the targets. When the students appealed to the
> R.A.F to take action, they resorted to indiscriminate 
> "lathicharge" on
> the students. They even entered Richardson Hall without the permission
> of the hostel superintendent and assaulted the boarders, including a
> physically handicapped student. More than twenty students were
> seriously injured. The same act was repeated in Sengupta as well as
> Sen Halls. The dual policy adopted by the R.A.F. was apparent from the
> ease with which cadres were roaming freely and threatening us in the
> presence of R.A.F. In the mean time SFI supporters attacked 2nd year
> hostels. The 2nd year students were so terrified that they sought our
> help. We took them to our hostels, called our University doctors and
> provided them with First Aid. Strangely, the authority's idea of
> assistance was an order to vacate the hostels near midnight. Buses
> were provided to transport us to the Howrah station. We narrated the
> ordeal of the 2nd year students to police. They assured us that the
> 2nd year students would be able to reach their hostels. So we boarded
> the bus provided by the authority. But unfortunately when we reached
> Howrah Station we came to know that the hapless 2nd year students were
> arrested by police charging them of loitering in the campus after
> 10-30 pm.
> 
> You can surely understand that we, the students
> have become victims of SFI-Authority-Police nexus whose sole 
> motive is
> to de-stabilize our esteemed Institution. Our very existence in the
> University campus is at stake. We would like to vehemently protest
> against the barbaric treatment given to the ordinary students.
> 
> 
> 24.03.2008:
> Students were put under virtual house arrest, and their free movement
> was restricted by the police. They even threatened students of dire
> consequences, which included threatening them with initiation of legal
> proceedings and disrupting their careers, for no valid reason.
> 
> The press was not allowed to enter the campus and report the incidents
> occurring inside. Even the students were not allowed to go near the
> press and express their views. This constitutes a gross violation of
> human rights.
> 
> 
> We would like to appeal
> to you to bring this to the attention of the nation at large and help
> us to bring the offenders to justice.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Withwarm regards,
> 
> Students (U.G)
> 
> BESU, Shibpur
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