[Reader-list] Fwd: The real face of "Change"

[Rakesh Iyer]

If the Trinamool practises this, people will pay it back too in the
same coin in the 2016
Assembly elections, rest assured.

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:04 PM, TaraPrakash Tripathi
<taraprakash at gmail.com> wrote:
> Looks like the tradition of paying people back with their own coins will go
> on for a while.
> Sigh
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "A. Mani" <a.mani.cms at gmail.com>
> To: "sarai list" <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 1:24 PM
> Subject: [Reader-list] Fwd: The real face of "Change"
>
>
>> _____________Forwarded message _____________________________
>>
>>
>> Please find a captivating account of "change" in Bengal, appeared in
>> Ganashakti (25 May 2011). Tough days are ahead of us in defending the
>> Left movement in Bengal.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Nithin
>>
>> “I have to leave my ancestral village home under Trinamool threats.”-
>> Jagannath Dhara
>>
>> My ancestral home is in Nokunda village in Goghat. But since 1985 I
>> used to stay in Serampore. My 95-year-old mother stays in Nokunda and
>> that is why I have to go to Nokunda to see my mother once or twice in
>> a month or two. This time, however, I went to my village not
>> specifically `to see my mother but to see the so called “change” that
>> has been brought about in my village after the elections.
>> On May 21 at 5-40 in the morning I took Dn. Tarakeswar local to
>> Goghat. From Goghat I took a bus to reach Nokunda. Around 10-30 a.m. I
>> got down at the village bus stand, close to the CPI(M) party office.
>> For the last 25 years this is the route I have been following .
>> As I got down from the bus and reached the party office I found none
>> in and around the party office. Even the wooden bench on the verandah
>> of the party office which used to be the waiting place for local
>> villagers to catch buses was missing. The party office was found
>> locked. I knew with whom the key is kept. I managed to collect the key
>> and opened the party office. The custodian of the key asked me
>> repeatedly not to open the party office but I did not listen to him. I
>> was eager to read the party organ Ganashakti which I thought must be
>> available there. After staying in tha party office for sometime I left
>> for home.
>> Our home is located in the north-east part of the village. On way to
>> home I noticed that the people who are known to me are avoiding me
>> and even refused to talk to me. The sign of fear was writ large on
>> their face. Some of my friends asked me not to roam around the
>> village. The village I know since my childhood days has suddenly
>> “changed.” Despite warning from my friends I came out of my house in
>> the afternoon and went to Digarpara area where I saw seven days back
>> red flags fluttering all around. But now red flags were removed and
>> tri-colours with symbols of Trinamool have been hoisted on house and
>> tree tops.
>> At Bagpara I met Tara Bag. He told me that there was none in the
>> house. All have left. When I was taking rest at the courtyard of Tara
>> Bag’s house suddenly I noticed a group of boys of around 20 or 25
>> appeared in front of me and wanted to know who I am and what for I
>> came to the village. I was born and brought up in Nokunda but I have
>> never seen the boys who surrounded me and behaved with me like rogues.
>> They wanted to know what led me to go to the CPI(M) party office and
>> opened it. Addressing me they asked : Tell us where arms and
>> ammunition have been stored and hidden? When I told them that I know
>> anything about weapons, they were about to beat me. I told them that
>> they were free to assault me or even kill me but cannot say nothing
>> about which is not known to me.
>> Despite threats I admitted that I went to the CPI(M) office because it
>> is my regular practice whenever I come to home. “You can kill me but I
>> am not going to hide the fact” At this stage the unknown youths called
>> the police. The police started interrogating me. From their
>> conversation I came to know that the police at the instruction of
>> these young boys conducted searches at different places in the village
>> but did not found weapons from anywhere.
>> I was then brought to the police camp where one presumably an officer
>> started second round of interrogation of me. There with the police
>> officer I saw a Trinamool leader of our village whom I knew. After
>> third and fourth rounds of interrogations I was asked to leave the
>> village as soon as possible.
>> To me there was no alternative but to leave the village on that day.
>> Like me many villagers have already left their homes in a situation
>> arising out of what we call a “change” .
>>
>> ______________________________________________________________
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Best
>>
>> A. Mani
>>
>>
>> --
>> A. Mani
>> ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS
>> http://www.logicamani.co.cc
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