Questions no one is asking on Nandigram

Well...so everyone is bashing the Red for creating havoc in Nandigram. Mainstream dailies as well as the audio-visual have gone overboard in dousing the ruling CPM government in West Bengal in blood. But has anyone given it a thought about the role of opposition parties in West Bengal? Has anyone thought about the objectives and roles of Maoist parties in West Bengal?

CPM has to be blamed as the ruling party is supposed to be accountable for law and order situation in a State. There is no question of justifying their role. What they did earlier and in early November cannot be justified with any logic. Bloodshed for anything, in today's world is not justifiable. We should have at least reached this stage of civilisation!

But then after the infamous massacre in March, the CM of West Bengal stated categorically that there won't be any chemical SEZ in Nandigram. He stated time and again that there would not be any attempt to acquire land.

Shouldn't the opposition stop at this? Shouldn't the BUPC (Bhumi Uchched Pratirodh Committee) stop its agitation at that point? What would justify even the locus standii of this BUPC now? Against whom are they agitating? Against what are they agitating?

What would justify BUPC's seizure of Nandigram over the past few months post March 14? There are people who would testify that BUPC forced them to toe their lines at gunpoints. BUPC damaged houses, properties and belongings of CPM sympathizers. There are evidences for that.

So...it's wrong if CPM cadres show guns but it's right if BUPC does that???? Isn't this the underlying logic of the press which has sweetly forgotten the roles of the opposition, BUPC and the Maoists? Isn't the underlying logic of the press say that violence by others are ok but violence by CPM is not ok.

Cry my motherland and may be the mother of human civilization...we've become this now. All of us have become parochial to an extent which is unbelievable...all of us have lost the ability to use logic...all of us become partisan...our views of the world are so distorted that anything goes. We just do not want to think beyond what we see.

Cry, civilization!