This editorial in People'sDemocracy —'Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)'—is being carried for the record. While the violence by Trinamul Congressdeserves unambiguous condemnation, and while politics of opportunism andhypocrisy is palpable, the irony could not be more complete...
The opposition to the setting up of a motor plant in Singur in West Bengal has, indeed, attracted very strange bedfellows. BJP president Rajnath Singh, Trinamul Congress’s Mamta Banerjee, sections of state Congress leadership and Medha Patkar have all come together spreading canards against the West Bengal Left Front government and the CPI(M) in particular. The Trinamul Congress tried to recreate the violent mayhem that it did some years ago in the Keshpur village in Midnapur district. Mercifully this was foiled, for the time being at least, by the alertness of the state administration. Police deployment and declaration of section 144 was forced to be undertaken because of this.