Is Bengal govt sowing Naxal seed again?
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Thirty-seven years ago, an obscure village in West Bengal sparked an armed peasant struggle which when it burnt out had taken the lives of hundreds and created a new ideology. The village was Naxalbari in Darjeeling district, the time was 1967 and the movement was Naxalism. But in 2006, is West Bengal sowing the seed for unrest again and are the protests in Singur a warning? The Naxal movement, under the leadership of a revolutionary group of the Indian Communist Party, was applauded by the Chinese and was influenced by the Maoist Communist movement in Nepal. But with the abolition of the zamindari (feudal) system and with the empowerment of labourers under strong labour unions, the movement subsided in West Bengal. But the memory of that era and is still strong in West Bengal. Naxalism grew because of acute poverty and labour exploitation in tea estates. ....
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