JNANESWARI TRAGEDY: CBI NETS KEY PCAPA MEMBER - INDIAN EXPRESS

15-06-2010

The CBI arrested an 18-year-old youth late on Monday night who is allegedly involved in the Jnaneswari Express derailment case.

“Hiralal Mahato was present at the spot with prime accused Bapi Mahato and Umakanto Mahato,” said a senior official of the Railways. “He is a right hand man of Bapi and he used to move with Bapi wherever he went. He is a bigger catch than Khagen and Samir Mahato.”

A member of the People’s Committee Against Police Atrocity (PCAPA), he is also a resident of Rasua village where Bapi used to live, the official added.

A senior railway official said the youth was among the five people being interrogated by the CBI. The agency had zeroed in on the men following the interrogation of Khagen and Samir Mahato.

The CBI, the official said, is yet to get any evidence of a blast in the place. As per forensic experts, the sabotage was done by removing pandrole clips from the tracks. “We are investigating into the matter,” he added.

Bhupinder Singh, the Director General of Police, said: “The CBI has given us the names of a few persons they want arrested. We had these names with us as the CID was probing the case. But since the CBI has approached us, we will make the arrests.”

Courtesy: www.indianexpress.com

INNOCENT MAOISTS AND THE INCREDIBLE BUT FACTUAL TALE OF A HEARTBREAKING RAIL TRAGEDY

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Half minister Dinesh Trivedi always has a refined presence on television debates. Sometimes too refined one would say. He speaks chaste English, he can articulate his party chieftain’s feral “vision” in plain words which typically bear mordant remarks about the bête noire CPI (M). This half minister is seldom seen on TV to speak about his ministerial responsibilities as television producers are pretty aware about his mostly cliché and stupid half-ministerial talks. Therefore after the Maoists have successfully derailed the Mumbai bound Gyaneshwari Express near Jhargram in Bengal’s Midnapore district and caused several civilian deaths, this man’s clean and cold face kept flashing on various news channels. When asked about his opinion about the horrific incidence, Trivedi squarely puts the entire blame on the State government, parroting the Trinamool chieftain’s corrosive guideline and asks: Isn’t law and order comes under the state? When the anchor of the show asks him whether the Railways minister also owes some responsibility or not, the half minister thundered: How do you blame the Railways Ministry when the incidence has taken place in CPM ruled Bengal? After all Mamata Banerjee is not Bengal’s chief minister. He then delivered a gem of a dialogue. The half minister assured us, “The day Mamata Banerjee becomes the chief minister of Bengal, I can guarantee you there will not be any such problems”! (Source )

Indian politicians are habitually infamous for talking nonsense in public and Trinamool Congress is particularly notorious in this aspect. One might therefore think that Trivedi must have gone utterly paranoid to stupidly justify an awesome disaster on behalf of his party boss who unfortunately is the Railways minister of the country. One might also wonder how Trivedi is so sure about the administrative competency of Mamata Banerjee. Both the thoughts have a close connection. In fact, Trivedi was speaking according to an instant strategy derived from the fantastic brains of Mamata Banerjee and her present advisors. The script was plain and simple. First to put the entire blame on the state government’s failure to maintain law and order, then to spread the rumor that the incident was possibly the handiwork of the CPI (M) and finally, to obscure any feature that could draw attention towards the Maoists and their frontal organization PCAPA as the real culprits behind the tragedy and shield them.

Intellectuals, who claim to be representatives of civil society and are openly supporting both the PCAPA and Mamata Banerjee, immediately jumped on the bandwagon. Instead of assisting the hapless victims and standing beside their families, the so called intellectuals, many of them on payroll of Indian Railways, were more anxious to clear the name of Mamata Banerjee and the Maoists from any public suspicion. They called a press conference to condemn the deaths and offer condolence to the victims. But the event was instantaneously converted into a political platform where the “awake and aware” intellectuals accused the CPI (M) of being involved in the mishap. “The accident was made to happen at a time when people are preparing to ring in a change,” thundered painter Shuvaprasanna, chairman of the passenger amenities committee of the Railways and Mamata Banerjee’s Rasputin. Amid table-thumping approval from Shuvaprasanna, another jewel of the crown Debobrata Bandopadhyay unambiguously said that “the needle of suspicion is towards CPM, which is the only beneficiary of the accident.” During the press meet no one minced a single word about the involvement of the Maoists except Railways heritage and culture committee chairperson Shaoli Mitra, who monthly draws Rs. 50,000 and other perks from the Railways coffer. Posing as the most credulous among the lot, Mitra uttered, “Even though Maoists have denied their links with the accident, media is emphasizing the Maoists link. We are going through a dark time.” How bad not to believe the honest and truthful Maoists! However, the “intellectuals” refused to answer any question posed by journalists who asked them about the basis of their allegation. (Source )

Within hours after the now infamous “intellectual” press conference, Mamata Banerjee appeared into the arena to hold one more press meet with her matching message: “I don't know who has done the heinous crime. But whoever has done it, it's a political conspiracy. (Emphasis added) I have requested the union home ministry to conduct a probe,” she said briskly. She then added her punch line, “The accident has happened two days before the (civic) election. One may be politically against us, but I feel bad the way the incident was engineered to fulfill one's political interests.” (Source )

Why the Trinamool tricksters are so eager to put the blame on the CPI (M)? Is it just because they wanted to score brownie points before the civic polls? This logic seems valid and persuasive, but there is a more intricate mechanism that is working deep beneath the visible surface. During the Singur-Nandigram fiasco, a single enemy strategy was vigorously employed by the detractors of the CPI (M) which had helped the Trinamool Congress to evoke an innate fighting impulse against the Marxists. To some extent this fighting impulse has stimulated the common man’s mind and caused the party’s 2009 poll debacle. No one can completely deny that the CPI (M) as a party has made quite a few serious blunders during the land acquisition controversies. But it is also a fact that to serve the single enemy strategy and impale the Marxists as enemy of the people, the blunders have been trumped up on an enormous magnitude. The CPI (M) has been blamed for every malady and misfortune of Bengal. It was a well crafted strategy to cloud rational judgment and distract attention from the real causes. The vicious attack has worked extremely well in the recent past and eroded a substantial chunk of the Left Front and the CPI (M)’s support base. At the same time it has helped the Trinamool chieftain to emerge as the only unyielding voice against the single enemy CPI (M). Quite obviously it became the central strategy for the Trinamool and their rainbow allies which also include the Maoists as a vital but disguised ally. Blaming the CPI (M) have therefore served a dual purpose. It has augmented the single enemy strategy and also obscured the role of the atrocious Maoists in the train tragedy that has caused death of nearly 150 innocent civilians.

The “blame CPI (M)” ploy was initiated by the Trinamool MP Sisir Adhikari with his “evil forces are out to vilify Mamata” remark. Receiving the tip-off from Adhikari, the PCAPA convener and spokesperson Asit Mahato was quick to announce, “We had no knowledge about the attack on the train. Our people did not do it…. It was the handiwork of CPM goons. It was a conspiracy hatched by the CPM.” After denying any involvement of the PCAPA in the sabotage and strongly proclaiming about a “CPI (M) conspiracy” Mahato did not stop there. Sensing the ramifications of the tragedy, a concerned Mahato desperately attempted to vindicate Mamata Banerjee and said, “CPI (M) has plans to politically isolate Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee so that she is forced to resign”. (Source ) Then the Trinamool intellectuals started their synchronized chorus to deliver an identical message which was followed by a statement issued by the State Committee of the CPI (Maoist). The statement assured the railway authorities “Nothing will be done from our side” and solicited them to ply their trains without fear. Keen to distance themselves from the tragedy fearing public backlash, the Maoists also repudiated the charge against them by stating that, “We were not involved in the sabotage.” Shaoli Mitra’s argument about the “innocent” Maoists was based on this statement. The Maoists also “demanded” an independent enquiry of the incidence by “a neutral investigation team comprising intellectuals, scientists, engineers and unofficial experts” since the state controlled CID and the central agency CBI “both are biased”. The Maoists demand call in mind what Rabindranath Tagore once wrote condemning the violence perpetrated by Indian extremist groups during the freedom movement, “To light the fire and then complain that it burns is absolutely childish.”

Why the Trinamool intellectuals and the veiled backers of Mamata Banerjee so intensely struggling to shield the Maoists from the train mishap? It is only because the chronology of events clearly show how the Trinamool leaders, the intellectuals, the PCAPA and the Maoists are coordinated with each other. Within days, the Indian Express published a story on PCAPA leader Bapi Mahato who controls the Guimara-Lalgeria panchayat area where the Gyaneshwari train disaster took place. The 25 year young leader, charged as the mastermind behind the attack by the police and investigating agencies, has revealed that “…we targeted the goods train. But somehow, we were fed wrong information that the goods train would cross through this track and we removed pandrol clips from a long stretch.” (Source )

Here we must also mention about some “neutral” analysts like a learned economist turned talk-show star who was simply “unable to comprehend why the Maoists will attack a train if they are so intimate to Mamata Banerjee”. Are the so called “neutral” voices really so naïve to figure out that Mamata Banerjee has mounted on a savage beast to achieve her enduring objective of occupying the Bengal chief minister’s chair? A Maoist leader has explained her predicament to the media, “We had expected Mamata to pressure the Centre in withdrawing the joint forces from the Jungle Mahal area. But she did nothing… She took our help in Nandigram, but she didn’t help us and so we wanted to cause minor damage to the railways by targeting a goods train.” (Source ) These so called neutral voices are in fact deceitful to the core. By pretending to be naïve, they are actually trying to mislead the people from the clear nexus between the Maoists and Trinamool. People only see what they are prepared to see. Mamata loyalists and lobbyists are therefore trying too hard to preserve the post Singur-Nandigram milieu so that the opportunity of a “change” does not spin out of control. But here is a caveat. The savage beast will possibly stop only after consuming the rider.

Mamata Banerjee’s admirers adore her for the essentially ruthless fighter image she has fostered over the years and for her ability to enforce a creepy but effective anti-CPI (M) diatribe. In her ongoing business of deception, she is steadily assisted by her intellectual friends who are putting the final wrapping on her glitzy packages. Under her direction, incessant attacks of virulent deception are widely been used as a worthy weapon to win over different segments of the population and for keeping the support intact till the 2010 assembly elections.

Most of the arguments spearheaded by the Trinamool chieftain are essentially phony as their base substances are all lies. In unusual situations, even phony facts and phony arguments sound logical. The same is happening today in the post Singur-Nandigram political atmosphere of Bengal. The fallacies and lies she have mastered to execute her deception strategies will obviously fool some people for some time. Many of her enthusiastic supporters are unable to visualize the actual situation as their minds are besieged under the grand emotional appeals and fallacious arguments of the Trinamool Congress. But will it be possible for the megalomaniac Mamata Banerjee to keep this momentum till the 2011 assembly elections is a tuff question to answer. From the almighty chieftain to the creepy-crawly lower rank leaders, most of the Trinamool team is habitual offenders of democratic integrity. Their rhetoric is full of unsound reasoning. Their language is filthy and obnoxious. Their approach is unscrupulous and fascistic. Their outlook is reactionary.

The Trinamool chieftain and her destructive forces have launched a new brand of manipulative politics in Bengal where emotion instead of reason is used to prove a conclusion to every political argument. Her expendable pawns of today and her future day scapegoats are mostly unaware about the ulterior motive of this deceptive politics. By deliberately replacing reality with illusion, by appealing to people’s emotions and prejudices to cloud their thinking ability, she has converted political deception almost into an art form. Hence, for the time being, her every wrong seems to be right. The Trinamool intellectuals on the other hand, especially the most vicious among them have confirmed once more that greed and self-interest are truly great motivators. But the recent events have proved one more thing for sure. You really do not need enemies if you have friends like the ones who are buzzing around Mamata Banerjee’s spoilt hive.

As a continuation of their 2009 general election performance, the Trinamool has achieved a “giant victory” in the civic polls today. It is an expected verdict. Only a miracle would have turned the verdict in CPI (M)’s favor. But the writings have already started to appear on the wall. It will become more and more prominent in the coming days. Do we really need a weather man to know which way the wind blows?

Courtesy: www.wordsfromsolitude.blogspot.com/2010/06/innocent-maoists-and-incredible-but.html

THE FINANCIAL EXPRESS - DURANTO STRINGS

MAMATA’S LOYALIST GETS TV LICENCE AS 146 OTHERS WAIT

Nistula Hebbar

Posted online: May 07, 2010 at 2323 hrs

New Delhi: In politics, lifelines come with strings attached, and Mamata Banerjee’s support for the UPA-II alliance is no different. Even as uplink applications for nearly 146 tele-vision channels are pending due to a regulatory impasse, Banerjee, chief of the Trinamool Congress and Cabinet minister for Railways, has quietly got a channel licence for artist Suvaprasanna, her supporter back in West Bengal.

Suvaprasanna’s news and current affairs channel in Bengali Akhon Samay is ready to go on air on May 9. Three weeks back, the channel received clearance from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) after Mamata took up cudgels on the artist’s behalf, sources said.

Curiously, on October 8 last year, the I&B ministry had written to Trai— which regulates the broadcast sector as well — asking it to review the entire process of granting uplink/downlink permission to TV channels.

Subsequently, on January 18 this year, the ministry announced its decision to halt the process until Trai came out with its recommendations. The ministry cited spectrum shortage as one of the reasons for suspending the process of granting new permissions.

Akhon Samay had applied for a license on December 14 last year, during this freeze period. According to top sources both in the ministry and her own party, Banerjee was not willing to take no for an answer, and personally intervened in the matter. Suvaprasanna, a painter of repute, is associated with the Trinamool Congress. Last year, he was appointed chairman of the Railways Passenger Amenities Committee, which comes under the Railways ministry headed by Banerjee.

Suvaprasanna confirmed to FE that his channel was all set for a glittering launch.

“We got clearance around three weeks ago, and will launch on May 9. The
channel is owned by Dev Kripa Vidyasagar Pvt Ltd, a company I formed with two other partners. The launch will be on the 150th birth anniversary of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore,” he said.

“Akhon Samay is a 24-hour news channel with a focus on culture,” he added. He, however, denied that Banerjee had intervened on his behalf.

Ironically, Anil Ambani-owned Reliance Big Broadcasting’s proposals to launch 32 channels are still hanging fire. Ministry officials have a convenient explanation to offer. “On April 1, I&B ministry decided that it will start processing pending applications for television channels. After April 1, the I&B ministry has given permission for over dozen television channels on a case-by-case basis,” informed sources said.

For Banerjee, the gain will be measured by Akhon Samay’s ability to combat media outlets sympathetic to the Left Front government in West Bengal. Assembly elections 2011 will be as much about propaganda as about performance. Allies extracting their pound of flesh is not new to politics. Telecom minister A Raja has been able to hold on to his post, despite strident Opposition protest to his continuance in the Cabinet. Raja has been accused of causing the exchequer a loss of Rs 1 lakh crore in the disbursal of wireless spectrum in 2008.

PERVERTS AND FRAUDS WORKING IN THE GARB OF INTELLECTUALS SUPPORTING MAOIST BUTCHERS AND RAPISTS HAVE NO TEARS FOR INNOCENT VICTIMS OF SABOTAGE

MODERN GESTAPOES WORKING IN THE GUISE OF MAOIST SYMPATHISERS HAVE NO TEARS FOR THESE INNOCENT VICTIMS OF INSANE MAOIST BUTCHERS AND RAPISTS

PSEUDO INTELLECTUALS WHO SYMPATHISE WITH INSANE MAOIST BUTCHERS, RAPISTS AND EXTORTIONISTS ARE NOTHING BUT SUCCESSORS OF GOEBLES

TRINAMOOL CONGRESS OPENLY HOBNOBS WITH MAOISTS FOR ELECTORAL GAINS - BJP

EXTRACT FROM RESOLUTION ON THE EXPANSION OF MAOIST ACTIVITIES PASSED IN BJP NATIONAL EXECUTIVE MEETING AT PATNA (BIHAR) ON 12-06-2010 and 13-06-2010.

“The UPA-I was a wasted opportunity in the battle against Maoists. The Home Ministry, under UPA-I, failed to realize the enormity of the problem and the possible solutions, and responses to it. The Home Ministry under UPA-II initially showed signs of understanding the extent and enormity of the Maoist problem, but the entire national impetus being built up has been lost on account of the politics of the UPA and the Congress itself. During the UPA-I, the Congress had political adjustments with the Maoists in Andhra Pradesh and Jharkhand where electoral conveniences guided it accordingly. When states like Chhattisgarh started innovative programmes to tackle the Maoist menace, the Congress was opposed to it. During the UPA-II there were initial signs of coordination, building up between the states and the Centre. The national mood was strongly in favour of a coordinated strategy against the Maoists. Despite several setbacks, the national Opposition was in a mood to fully stand by the government against indiscriminate Maoist violence. However, differences within the UPA have started crippling the Central government’s approach towards the Maoists.

The Congress leaders started openly questioning the approach of the Home Ministry and the government of India. In West Bengal, an UPA ally, the Trinamool Congress, openly started hobnobbing with the Maoists because of electoral and vote bank consideration. Differences in the Cabinet spilled over into the public. The Home Ministry wanted an ‘expanded mandate’ to fight the Maoists. The Cabinet was willing to give only a ‘limited mandate’. The Home Ministry favoured the use of air-power for surveillance; the Defence Minister was not cooperative.”

TARUNKATI NASKAR IS WITH INSANE MAOIST BUTCHERS, RAPISTS AND EXTORTIONISTS

JYOTI PUNOWANI IS WITH INSANE MAOIST BUTCHERS, RAPISTS AND EXTORTIONISTS

TAPAN ROR CHOWDHURY IS WITH INSANE MAOIST BUTCHERS, RAPISTS AND EXTORTIONISTS

REPORTER BOLAN GANGOPADHYAY DEFENDS INSANE MAOIST BUTCHERS, RAPISTS AND EXTORTIONISTS

MEHR ENGINEER SUPPORTS AND DEFENDS INSANE MAOIST BUTCHERS, RAPISTS AND EXTORTIONISTS

PRO-MAOIST DRAMATIST BRATYA BASU DEFENDS MAOIST BUTCHERS, RAPISTS AND EXTORTIONISTS

IS FORMER POLICE COMMISSIONER OF KOLKATA WITH INSANE MAOIST BUTCHERS, RAPISTS AND EXTORTIONISTS ?

POET TARUN SANYAL IS WITH INSANE MAOIST BUTCHERS, RAPISTS AND EXTORTIONISTS

TARUN MONDAL IS WITH INSANE MAOIST BUTCHERS, RAPISTS AND EXTORTIONISTS

ABHI DUTTA MAJUMDAR IS WITH INSANE MAOIST BUTCHERS, RAPISTS AND EXTORTIONISTS

ECONOMIST SUVENDU DASGUPTA IS WITH INSANE MAOIST BUTCHERS, RAPISTS AND EXTORTIONISTS

FORMER AMBASSADOR MADHU BHADURI IS WITH INSANE MAOIST BUTCHERS, RAPISTS AND EXTORTIONISTS

PROFESSOR AMIT BHADURI IS WITH INSANE MAOIST BUTCHERS, RAPISTS AND EXTORTIONISTS

PSEUDO INTELLECTUAL SUNANDA SANYAL DEFENDS INSANE MAOIST BUTCHERS, RAPISTS AND EXTORTIONISTS

MAMATA’S SAFETY RECORD: ABSENT

31-05-2010

SRINAND JHA

Mamata Banerjee is likely to join back work as Union Minister for Railways on Tuesday, ending her longest-ever absence from office.

In her absence, the Railways saw a major incident in West Bengal, which cost the lives of 148 people. Two weeks before that, a stampede in New Delhi station took two lives.

Even as the Railways face criticism for lack of safety and security, Banerjee’s absence of almost a month from office has held up a critical proposal to find a fix to these problems.

Recommending more teeth for the Railway Protection Force (RPF), the T.R. Baalu-headed parliamentary standing committee had asked the Railways to forward a revised draft of the Railway Property (Unlawful Possession) Amendment Bill.

Over the last two months, Banerjee has not had the time to scrutinise the draft — which is pending at her desk.

Another critical issue is the continuing delays in filling up safety-related posts. As many as 1, 99,494 railway posts are currently vacant, with an estimated 40 per cent of these being safety-related posts, the All India Railway Men Federations said. That comes to as many as 80,000 posts lying unfilled.

Similarly, a draft of the new catering policy awaits the minister’s clearance, even as Banerjee’s initiatives aiming at improving passenger amenities have not taken off. There are many more files that are lying in wait for the minister’s attention — figures vary from a few hundred to a thousand.

With Banerjee away for such a long time, rooms in the corridor where her office is located have remained locked and the notice board at the entrance of Rail Bhawan has displayed the same ‘thought of the day’ for the past several weeks.

Officials though say this is of little consequence. “The ministry runs on auto-pilot; the minister does not need to be physically present,” one said.

Courtesy: Hindustan Times

CBI OFFICIALS VISIT SITE OF SABOTAGE BY INSANE MAOIST BUTCHERS

Kolkata (12-06-2010): The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officials probing the Gyaneshwari Express accident on Friday made a survey of the spot where the train derailed near Jhargram in West Bengal and took custody of two people arrested earlier for their alleged involvement in the sabotage.

Khagen Mahato and Samir Mahato, arrested by the state's Criminal Investigation Department (CID), were brought before a lower Court in Jhargram town and remanded to CBI custody till June 17.

'The CID officials presented the two accused before Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Court in Jhargram. He remanded them in CBI custody till June 17,' said defence counsel Kaushik Sinha.

CBI officials in two groups visited the Jhargram Court and the spot between Sardiha and Khemashuli stations where the train got derailed on May 28 and was later hit by a freight train resulting in the death of 148 people.

A CBI team led by Prabal Halder went to Jhargram court while another led by CBI special crime branch (Kolkata) Superintendent A. Bothra met West Midnapore district magistrate N.S. Nigam, police superintendent Manoj Verma, Kharagpur divisional railway manager of South Eastern Railway Anil Handa.

After the meeting, the CBI sleuths along with the district administrative officials went to the spot by road and then returned to Mindapore town by a special two-compartment train.

'We have visited the spot and met senior officers of the district administration,' said Bothra.

A senior police officer said the CBI team held a series of meetings with the district administrative officials and senior police officers in Midnapore after visiting the spot.

TIMES OF INDIA: “A WRONG POLICY RESPONSE”

Following the Gyaneshwari Express tragedy, night train services were discontinued in hazardous areas in Naxal-hit states. Reportedly, this moratorium - particularly in some sections of the South-Eastern Railway - has been extended on passenger trains for the second time till June 10.

Since the railway minister seems to doubt Maoists caused the derailment at all, there's policy confusion at the top. The Naxal menace is being underplayed even as it's pitched as the reason to suspend night runs. More, the Maoist threat isn't likely to vanish soon. What's the guarantee the deadline won't be pushed ahead yet again?

The authorities create the impression of abdicating responsibility on undertaking an urgent security and intelligence beef-up. This path of least resistance can only embolden trouble-makers.

A sizeable length of Indian Railways' 64,000 km network runs through Maoist-hit areas. How long can even routine track inspections be neglected, by citing lack of police escorts? It's about time the authorities took up a standing committee's suggestions to augment the Railway Protection Force. Also, as many as 80,000 safety related posts ^ including of gangmen who maintain tracks - are unfilled.

Nor can upgrade of sabotage-related early warning and detection systems be put off. With computerised track signalling, the Railways can have a better safety record.

Stalled service delivery can't be a policy response to criminal acts. Perpetrators of violence aim at creating a climate of fear that immobilises train travel, the lifeline of cross-country transportation, at great economic cost to the nation. To win against them, it's essential to get the message across that the nation can't be terrorised into submission. That means keeping essential services going while ensuring better protection of their users.

Courtesy : http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/

THE HINDU - CBI TAKES TWO SUSPECTED SABOTEURS IN ITS CUSTODY

12-06-2010

Raktima Bose

KOLKATA:After formally taking over the investigation in the Jnaneswari Express derailment case from the West Bengal's Criminal Investigation Department (CID), the CBI on Friday obtained the custody of two persons held in connection with the case, and other documents, at a Jhargram court in Paschim Medinipur district.

A CBI team visited the accident site near the Sardiha station.

Sources in the CBI said the investigation agency had filed a petition before the additional chief judicial magistrate of Jhargram, seeking the transfer of custody of Khagen Mahato and Samir Mahato from the CID, based on the notification issued by the Union Home Ministry.

The CID had also submitted a petition, stating that it wanted to hand over the all the documents, as well as the custody of the two arrested persons, to the CBI.The court allowed the CBI to take the two in its custody till June 17.
Both are suspected to be key conspirators in sabotaging the rail track and causing the tragedy on May 28.

While Khagen Mahato is charged with carrying the saboteurs to and from the spot on his pick-up van, Samir Mahato is suspected to be one of those who removed the pandrol clips from the track.

The CBI team also met top officials and police officers at Kharagpur.

‘SORRY’ CAN’T HEAL THE WOUNDS

06-06-2010

Sushmita Dutta

A week after the deadly Gyaneshwari Express tragedy, in which more than 140 innocent civilians died, Bapi Mahato, the man said to be behind this massacre said ‘SORRY’ and accepted responsibility. He also had the audacity to say that the target was a goods trains and not the unfortunate passenger train. The ‘Naxalbari’ no longer for poor It is deplorable that the Naxal problem in India has taken such a mammoth shape. A struggle that started way back in 1967 in the quite little hamlet called Naxalbari in West Bengal has tread a long path, but seems now to have lost its way. An armed uprising by the founders of the Naxalism- Charu Mazumdar, Kanu Sanyal and Jangal Santhal- was initiated to provide the farmers their lands. At one point of time, they were referred to as the ‘Robinhoods of India’. Forty three years have gone past and the Naxal movement is now spread in over 220 districts across 20 Indian states. But the movement has never been more ‘red’ than now. Blood is being shed like water, turning the naxal-infested states into a war zone. Armed jawans and helpless men, women and children have been slaughtered at the altar of Naxalism. Now this movement is being termed as ‘the single biggest internal security challenge ever faced by our country’.

The ‘Red Corridor’ has blood on it In the last few years, the Naxal movement has aggravated and spread to other states also. The main among which are Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, Orissa – also called the ‘red corridor’. The Naxals have been very active in this area. Last year, they did something unprecedented. In April 2009, just days ahead of the Jharkhand polls, the Naxals hijacked a train in Jharkhand’s Latehar district. Around 300 Naxals surrounded the Mugalsarai bound train and held the passengers for hours. The passengers onboard had a harrowing experience. Year 2010 has been even worse. The Naxalites created mayhem in every part of the red corridor. In the Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh, a Naxal hotbed, they killed 75 CRPF jawans. Around 1000 Naxalites ambushed 120 CRPF jawans in a meticulously planned operation. The CRPF just walked into the Naxal trap and were brutally slaughtered. It was one the deadliest and most daring attacks by the Naxals in recent times. Their very next attack was equally terrible. They attacked a civil bus to kill a few policemen, but this time innocents were also killed. The bus was travelling from Gadiras to Bhusaras in the same Dantewada district. The bus had a few Special Police Officers. To avenge the few policemen, they blew the entire bus by planting IED inside the metal road. Most of the deceased were innocents.

The ‘Gyaneshwari Express’ blown-up mercilessly And it seems like there is no stopping for the Naxals. They recently derailed the Mumbai bound Gyaneshwari Express, which collided with a goods train in Jhargram, West Bengal, killing innocent men and women onboard. Till now the death toll has crossed the 140 mark and is expected to go up. The victims on that train had nothing to do with Naxals or their agenda. They were simple people travelling from one part of India to the other. After this incident people are already really scared to move in these red corridors. And to top it all, when the Naxal leader Bapi Mahato was confronted for this, all he could say was SORRY.

http://www.zeenews.com/news631737.html

TARGET OF INSANE MAOISTS ARE NOT CAPITALISTS, LAND LORDS OR MONEY LENDERS BUT ONLY INNOCENT POOR PEOPLE

MAOIST BUTCHERS TARGET INNOCENT PASSENGERS WHO HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH POLITICS

PUT TO DEATH HUMAN RIGHT ACTIVISTS WHO SUPPORT INSANE MAOIST BUTCHERS

PUT TO DEATH MAOIST BUTCHERS AND THEIR SYMPATHISERS

HANG MAOIST BUTCHERS AND THEIR SUPPORTERS, SYMPATHISERS AND ADVISORS WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR SUCH MASSACRE

HANG THE SUPPORTERS OF MAOIST BUTCHERS WHO HAVE MURDERED HUNDREDS OF INNOCENT RAILWAY PASSENGERS

TOLERANCE OF PEOPLE IN RESPECT OF MAOIST BUTCHERS AND THEIR SYMPATHISERS HAS SURPASSED ALL LIMITS

INTELLECTUALS WHO SUPPORT MAOISTS ARE NOTHING BUT AGENTS OF FOREIGN ENEMIES

FOREIGN FUNDED ANTI-NATIONAL ELEMENTS WORKING IN THE GARB OF INTELLECTUALS, HUMAN RIGHT ACTIVISTS AND SOCIAL ACTIVISTS SUPPORT MAOIST BUTCHERS

CRIMINALS IN THE GUISE OF INTELLECTUALS, SOCIAL ACTIVISTS AND HUMAN RIGHT ACTIVISTS SUPPORT THE MAOIST BUTCHERS

CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (CBI) IS BEING MISUSED BY MAMATA BANERJEE TO DEFEND HER ALLY THE MAOIST BUTCHERS

CBI IS A POLITICAL TOOL IN THE HANDS OF MAMATA BANERJEE TO DEFEND THE MAOIST BUTCHERS

WE AIMED GOODS TRAIN, NEVER AIMED CIVILIANS : MAOISTS

Kolkata, May 31: Naxal backed People’s Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) admitted that they were behind the sabotage. But added that they never aimed civilians. Their target was police personnel or goods trains.

PCPA leader Bapi Mahato told this to the newspaper The Indian Express that on that day of attack the organisation was targeting goods train and not passenger train. Mahato apologised for the attack on Howrah-Kurla Lomanya Tilak Gyaneshwari Super Deluxe Express train near Jhargram on Friday 28 May, 2010.

“We’re sorry. We never wanted these innocent civilians to die. Trust me, we targeted the goods train. But somehow, we were fed wrong information that the goods train would cross through this track and we removed pandrol clips from a long stretch. We didn’t want to harm civilians. There must have been some miscalculation,” Mahato to The Indian Express.

Police told last week that, it is Umakanto Mahato and Bapi Mahato planned and executed the derailment of the Gyaneshwari Express train.

The duo with the help of some disgruntled PCPA cadres abducted a railway lineman Dayaram Mahato posted at Sardiha station from his house at about 9:30 PM on Thursday night after threatening him and his family. The PCPA leaders warned him that his entire family would be killed if he did not accompany them and carried out their orders.

Simultaneously PCPA athorities issued a statement denying their involvement in the massacre and urged the government to restart passenger train movement at night that have been stopped since the sabotage. This is an effort by the Maoist for damage-control.

Senior intelligence officers believe that the rebels might even murder the leaders of the village militia to repair the damage to their image.

“In typical Maoist style, the rebels may execute the men responsible for the derailment, branding them class enemies or traitors,” said a police officer, pointing out several recent murders where PCPA men were killed by Maoists.

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STOP MAOIST NAXALISM

Central Chronicle

The heartless act of Maoists in India killing hundreds of innocent civilians and jawans are on the rise. The country has witnessed killing of 76 para-military personnel in Dantewada (Chattisgarh) in the recent past. Again on May 17, they have blown up a bus carrying civilians in the same district of Dantewada killing about 36 people including a dozen special police officers.

The reports indicate that since last five years Naxals killed an average 3 people in 2 days. Report further says that they have killed about 2670 people so far out of which 1680 are civilians and 990 jawans. About 1440 Naxalites have also reportedly lost their lives in encounters. Even after both of these massacres the Government is still hesitating to take concrete steps to eradicate Naxalism from the soil of our country. Is it not the responsibility of an elected Govt to save the life of its people.

When the politicians are enjoying like anything the poor are spending sleepless nights even in their own houses fearing attack by Naxals. The Maoist Naxals have again put the nation in tears by derailing the Gyaneshwari Express killing more than 170 innocent people and injuring about 200. Before the tears of Dantewada killing have been wiped out, the Naxals have succeeded in their attempt to spoil the nation once again. Will the Govt take any concrete steps to save the life of innocent people at least now.

Surprisingly, one of the leaders of Peoples Community Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA) has expressed regret over the incident and said that it was not their intention to derail the passenger train to kill innocent civilians. According to him their target was a goods train only. Are they going to achieve anything out of sabotaging and making financial loss to the nation. No. Not at all. It is worthwhile to note that majority of the Naxal leaders and its sympathizers are highly educated from reputed universities/institutions of the country/abroad and hailing from well to do families. Their ideology is very strong and are determined to do what they think. The Naxals should understand that the path of violence is not the way to achieve their goal whatever it may be. They should come forward for a meaningful discussion/dialogue across the table with the Central Government in a cordial atmosphere to sort out the issues rather than adopting the way of violence.

India has a strong Army ready to face any eventuality. Time has come now to use it and show the strength of our Army to the Naxals. We should not forget that our enemies outside the country are also watching the action of our elected Government to eradicate Naxalism from her soil.

There was an official statement from the Defence Minister last week that using of Military force to contain the maoist attacks in the country cannot be ruled out. Let's hope the Government will soon take a bold decision to eradicate Maoist led naxalism to save innocent lives in the larger interest of the nation.
VB Rajagopal

Courtesy: NAXAL TERROR WATCH

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT CONDEMNS RAILWAY ATTACK IN INDIA

2010-05-29 21:00:00

The European Parliament Saturday expressed shock over the train attack in West Bengal in which 131 people were killed.

'Attacking the civil infrastructure and killing innocent people is perfidious terror. On behalf of the European Parliament, I condemn this attack sharply,' Jerzy Buzek, president of the EU parliament, was quoted as saying by EuAsiaNews.

'My thoughts are with the families and friends of the many victims and I hope that those injured will recover soon and fully,' Buzek said.

The death toll in Friday's train tragedy near Jhargram in West Bengal rose to 131 Saturday.

The Gyaneshwari Express went off the track between Sardiha and Khemasuli railway stations, after suspected Maoists removed 1.5 feet of rail track, at 1.30 a.m. Friday.

Buzek also condemned the attack in two mosques in Pakistan's Lahore city Friday in which around 80 people were killed.

'I am very shocked that people who came together peacefully to pray were attacked and taken as hostage. I really condemn this destructive and shameful attack against the Pakistan people,' he said.

DAMAGE CONTROL BY MAOISTS; SAY WON'T ATTACK TRAINS - TIMES OF INDIA

31-06-2010

KOLKATA/SARDIHA: The Maoists are in desperate damage-control mode, trying to distance themselves from a rogue unit of the PCPA militia that sabotaged the rails and caused the Gyaneshwari Express crash, killing 148 people.

On Sunday, the rebels issued a statement denying their involvement in the massacre and urging the government to resume passenger train services at night that have been halted since the derailment. Senior intelligence officers believe that the rebels might even murder the leaders of the village militia to repair the damage to their image.

"In typical Maoist style, the rebels may execute the men responsible for the derailment, branding them class enemies or traitors," said a police officer, pointing out several recent murders where PCPA men were killed by Maoists.

Maoist state committee member Akash issued a second press statement on the sabotage on Sunday, saying that they "never target the common people". "The government can resume train services on the section at night. No harm will be done from our side," he said.

However, it will be very difficult for the red brigade to wash their hands of the incident as it happened in their core zone and the modus operandi has all the hallmarks of a Maoist attack. PCPA, too, has denied any involvement in the sabotage, but police refuse to buy the rebels' claim of innocence.

Like other top state police officers, including state DGP Bhupinder Singh, ADG CID Raj Kanojia on Sunday hinted that the sabotage was the handiwork of Maoists or their local militia group active in the area. On Sunday, a team of CID officers and forensic experts visited the accident site again and collected samples of the removed pandrol clips and stone chips from the track.

The CID report is expected in a week. Kanojia confirmed that the rail track had been cut and did not mention any explosion. The FIR lodged with Jhargram GRP by the driver of Gyaneshwari Express was amended on Sunday to add 'murder', 'attempt to murder' and 'grievous hurt' charges.

JUST LIKE BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY, CBI JUMPS TO SAVE MAOIST BUTCHERS, RAPISTS AND EXTORTIONISTS AT THE INSTRUCTION OF MAMATA BANERJEE

HANG CRIMINALS, FRAUDS, ANTI-SOCIALS AND ANTI-NATIONALS WORKING IN THE GUISE OF INTELLECTUALS, HUMAN RIGHT & SOCIAL ACTIVISTS SUPPORTING MAOISTS

HOW LONG INDIANS WILL TOLERATE CRIMINALS IN THE GUISE OF SYMPATHISERS OF MAOISTS ?

CRIMINALS AND BUTCHERS IN THE GUISE OF MAOISTS AND THEIR SYMPATHISERS SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO GO SCOT FREE FOR SUCH HUGE LOSS OF LIVES

ARUNDHATI ROY KEEPS MUM TO SUPPORT MAOIST BUTCHERY OF INNOCENT RAILWAY PASSENGERS WITH THE BLESSINGS OF MAMATA BANERJEE

CBI ENGAGED BY MAMATA BANERJEE TO DEFEND NEO FASCISTS WORKING IN THE GUISE OF MAOISTS

MAMATA BANERJEE ENGAGES CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION TO DEFEND MAOIST BUTCHERS AS CBI DID IN BHOPAL GAS TRAGEDY

4 PCPA MEMBERS HELD FOR GYANESHWARI SABOTAGE

New Delhi: West Bengal Police and commandos of the elite special action force (SAF) have arrested four suspected members of the People’s Committee against Police Atrocities (PCPA) in connection with the May 28 attack on the Gyaneshwari Express.

The arrest was made in a joint operation in Jhargram, a Maoist stronghold. Sources in the central reserve police force (CRPF) said six commando teams and 200 personnel of state police and CRPF took part in the night-long operation.

Those arrested have been identified as Manoranjan Mahto, Rakal Barik, Rabindra Mahto and Bhonomali Mahato.

“We have arrested four people and interrogation is on. We have some leads and Jhargram Police are heading the operations in the area. We are trying to identify the people who planned and carried out this [Gyaneshwari] strike,” a senior West Bengal Police officer said.

Investigators said they had also recovered some country-made firearms and a motorcycle from the suspects.

The home ministry has already pointed the finger of suspicion at Maoists or its frontal organisations. This is not the first time that members of PCPA have attacked a passenger train.

Earlier, they were involved in hijacking the Kolkata-Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express.

During the course of investigation, it was found that the Gyaneshwari Express was derailed because of the removal of fish plates and mutilation of a part of the track. The derailment led to a collision with a speeding goods train coming from the opposite direction.

When the personnel of CRPF reached the accident site, around 3 am on the day of the attack, they found PCPA posters.

“Since we were just 12 km away from the accident site, we were rushed with medical supplies and paramedics to help the injured and take part in the rescue operation. Our personnel recovered PCPA posters and handed them to local police,” a senior CRPF officer said, adding that the personnel had to walk in the middle of the night to avoid being ambushed by Maoists.

CHIDAMBARAM: CPI-MAOIST OR FRONT GROUP BEHIND TRAIN ATTACK

Home Minister P Chidambaram has said that "the needle of suspicion in the attack on the Gyaneshwari Express in West Bengal points to the CPI-Maoists or a front organization for the CPI-Maoists.

"Last week, more than 140 passengers were killed in West Midnapore when the Gyaneshwari Express headed to Mumbai derailed about 135 kms from Kolkata. The Gyaneshwari Express was then hit by a speeding goods train. Chidambaram's latest statement about the Maoists contradicts Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee, who is a key ally in the UPA coalition. Banerjee and her Trinamool Congress say that there is no evidence that the Maoists were involved in the attack on the Gyaneshwari Express.

Banerjee has asked for a CBI investigation into the attack. Senior West Bengal police officers have said that early leads suggest the Maoists were responsible for the tragedy.