ரேஷனில் உணவு கொடுக்கவில்லை என்று மேற்கு வங்கத்து ஏழைகள் கலவரம்

சிபிஎம் கட்சியினர் தாக்கப்பட்டுள்ளனர். ரேஷனை கவனித்துக்கொள்வதும் சிபிஎம் கட்சி ஆட்கள்தான். அதனால், ரேஷனில் உணவு கொடுக்கவில்லை என்ற் சிபிஎம் கட்சி ஆட்களை தாக்குகின்றனர் ஏழை மக்கள். ஒரு ரேஷன் அதிகாரி தன்னை தாக்குவார்கள் என்ற் அஞ்சி தற்கொலை செய்துகொண்டுள்ளார்.

ஏராளமான ரேஷன் கடைகள் கொளுத்தப்பட்டுள்ளன.

ரேஷனை நிர்வகிக்கும் சிபிஎம் ஆட்கள் ரேஷனுக்கு வந்த உணவை பதுக்கி தனியாக வைத்து வேறிடத்தில் விற்றுவிற்றார்கள் என்று உணவு கார்பரேஷன் அவர்கள் மீது வழக்கு தொடர்ந்திருக்கிறது.

இதுதான் மேற்கு வங்காளத்தில் கம்யூனிஸ்டுகள் ஆட்சி செய்யும் லட்சணம்.

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Ration riots across South Bengal
7 Oct 2007, 0232 hrs IST,Nirmalya Banerjee & Debajyoti Chakraborty,TNN

KOLKATA/GALSI: Ration riots continued unabated on Saturday across South Bengal.

In Bankura, Biman Kundu, a ration dealer of Barokumari village, allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself, police sources said. Family members claimed that the ration dealer was under severe stress and feared that he might come under attack.

At Itaru village in Burdwan's Galsi, the house and the shop of a dealer were looted in the morning. Some CPM leaders were assaulted. A motorcycle belonging to a local CPM leader was set on fire.

Hundreds of villagers assembled outside the house of Amir Ali Khan, ration dealer and CPM local committee secretary of Galsi II block, asking why they had been denied their quota of foodgrain. Then they stoned the house, looted paddy stacks, ransacked his ration shop, godown and grocery shop.

In Burdwan, several shops were ransacked and articles, including 250 sacks of paddy and three barrels of kerosene oil taken away.

The looting continued for four hours. CPM leaders from Bhunri village decided to resist and marshalled a motley crowd of villagers working in a rural employment guarantee project.

As they were proceeding in a procession to Itaru, where angry villagers were waiting to confront them, villagers of Bhunri resisted the CPM procession and dispersed it.

The motorcycle of a CPM leader, who had organised the procession, was set on fire. The sabhapati of the local panchayat samiti, who was also leading the procession, took shelter in a school building.

When ToI correspondents reached the spot, a police vehicle was waiting outside Itaru, but no policeman had ventured to the trouble spot.

"The trouble will increase if we go," an officer explained. A clash between consumers and a ration dealer was averted at Purandarpur in Nadia when local people mobbed a dealer's house on Saturday asking for their quota of kerosene oil.

Police diffused the commotion by seizing 1,400 litres that dealer Kalipada Sarkar had hoarded in his house, Nadia DM Onkar Singh Meena said.

At Khargram in Murshidabad, villagers ransacked four ration shops. Trouble broke out after three dealers shut their shops fearing attack by local people. The shops were set on fire and a police force and RAF had to be called in.

In Birbhum, the food department lodged an FIR against three ration dealers for misappropriation of PDS material.

(With inputs from Sukumar Mahato and Someswar Boral)