Trinamool member's remark over Nandigram angers CPI-M MPs

Trinamool member's remark over Nandigram angers CPI-M MPs

Trinamool member's remark over Nandigram angers CPI-M MPs

By ANI
Friday April 27, 06:44 PM
New Delhi, Apr 27 (ANI): A remark by Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha Member Dinesh Trivedi over the West Bengal Government's handling of Nandigram and Singur issues led to protest from the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) MPs in the Upper House today.

While getting a reply to a supplementary question on the adverse impact of Special Economic Zones (SEZ) during the question hour, Trivedi said "a day is going to come when farmers will revolt".

When asked about the incident, Trivedi told ANI: "During a reply (given by a Minister) to a question on the reduction of cultivatable land, I said the farmers would take definitely take revenge."

"Today they are committing suicide, tomorrow they would come ahead to kill you," he added.

He said that the Centre have data of decrease in agrarian land up to the year 2005. He added that the government says that it is a subject of the State list while on the other hand the Centre itself passes the SEZs.

Revolutionary Socialist Party Rajya Sabha Member Aboni Roy said: "The CPI-M members protested against the statement made by Trivedi but all left parties did not join them in their protest."

Earlier in the day, while intervening in the verbal fight between them, Rajya Sabha Chairman Bhairon Singh Shekhawat asked CPI-M MPs not to react to Trivedi's remarks.

"Don't get irritated, otherwise Nandigram will be a problem for you", Shekhawat told them in vain. (ANI)