Doublespeak, Vicious, Malicious campaign by Mamata

CM blames Maoists in Jnaneswari flip-flop, CPM demands apology

Mishra Fumes At ‘Malicious Campaign’

TIMES NEWS NETWORK 17.11.11

Surjya Kanta Mishra congratulates Mamata Banerjee after she was sworn in as an MLA on Wednesday

Kolkata:Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday squarely blamed the Maoists for the Jnaneswari Express carnage in May 2010, eating her own words as railway minister when she had smelt a “political conspiracy” in the sabotage of railway tracks that led to the death of 160 people. 
    “The train disaster in which 160 people were killed was done by them (Maoists). It is now proved,” she said on a day that marked the formal beginning of her assembly stint. The volte-face comes more than a year after pro-change intellectuals pinned blame for the carnage on CPM. “The needle of suspicion is towards CPM,” former bureaucrat and current Trinamool MP Debabrata Bandyopadhyay had said at a press conference a day before the KMC polls. 
    At a news conference she addressed on May 30 last year, Mamata had said, “The derailment was planned to link it with the civic polls, 
but voters will see through the conspiracy... People who do not like me may be behind the incident to put the blame on Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool Congress.” Some weeks later, on July 21, she said, “I am prepared to resign if CPM guarantees it will not indulge in sabotage. They have been planning sabotage. They are trying to ruin the (reputation of) the railways by letting cockroaches into food. It is time for CPM to go... ” 
    Now, with the CBI concluding that the train attack was carried out by the Maoists, there is no room for conspiracy theories. Leader of the opposition Surjya Kanta Mishra demanded an apology from the CM for the “false malicious” campaign against CPM. BONHOMIE & BARBS 
    I am prepared to resign if CPM 
    guarantees it will not indulge 
    in sabotage. They have been planning sabotage. They are trying to ruin the (reputation of) the railways by letting cockroaches into food. It is time for CPM to go. The Jnaneswari Express accident took place on May 28, two days before the Kolkata Municipal Corporation elections 
Mamata Banerjee | ON JULY 21, 2010 The train disaster in which 160 people were killed was done by them (Maoists). It is now proved Mamata Banerjee | ON NOV 16, 2011CM doesn’t have right intent: Surjya 
Kolkata: Leader of the Opposition Surjya Kanta Mishra has demanded an apology from the chief minister for blaming CPM for the Jnaneswari Express carnage. 
    “The chief minister has been forced to admit the truth. But I will not say she has realized her mistake. CBI had investigated the case and pinned the blame on Maoists. The Union home minister has also said much the same. Even the state police, it appears, have arrested a person (PCPA leader Asit Mahato) who, the CBI claims, was involved. She should publicly apologize for the false and malicious campaign her party had launched. Since she has stopped short of it, I would say she doesn’t have the right intent,” Mishra said on Wednesday. 
    Shortly afterwards, the chief minister clarified her statement in an interview to a news channel. “The Maoists were responsible for the disaster, but had made them do it? We have our suspicion. We can’t state this without evidence. Many killings have taken place in the name of the Maoists. The Maoists have links with CPM. During the CPM regime, many people, including EFR personnel at Silda and an officer-in-charge in a police station in West Midnapore, lost their lives at the hands of the Maoists,” Mamata said. 
    Asked why she had accused CPM of being behind the train disaster and was now blaming the Maoists, she clarified, “We had a certain amount of suspicion. It still remains. When this comes up in court, this will be stated.”

Democracy soon fading away in West Bengal

110 med students held for gherao

TIMES NEWS NETWORK 16.11.11

Friends of the arrested students wait outside Lalbazar on Tuesday night

Kolkata: In a bid to crack down on political hooliganism in hospitals, the state administration on Tuesday arrested 110 students of Calcutta Medical College Hospital for gheraoing principal Dr Utpal Dutta for five hours. The students were later released on personal bonds. They were protesting the authorities’ attempt to bar 18 students from contesting the college union election on November 25. These candidates had allegedly flouted the election code of conduct by taking a few students out for a picnic. 
    The arrested students owed allegiance to Medical College Democratic Students Association — a non-CPM, non-Trinamool union. They later alleged that the police had resorted tolathicharge, although joint commissioner of police (headquarters) Jawed Shamim denied using any force. 
    The authorities claimed MCDSA supporters had disrupted normal functioning of the hospital and cut off access to the principal’s office for over five hours. The union members also organized a rally on the campus. 
    “A committee to supervise the college union election was formed on November 4 and laid down certain guidelines. It was later reported that 18 MCDSA candidates had organized a picnic for first-year students. This was a violation of the code of conduct and a brazen attempt to lure voters,” a hospital official said. The committee on Monday unanimously decided to bar the 18 students from contesting. “The committee was to meet on Wednesday to probe complaints against them. But suddenly, the students gheraoed the principal’s office for five hours,” said Dr Siddhartha Chabraborty, medical superintendent and vice-principal.