: Nandigram: A Sight of Collective Struggle against Capitalist Propaganda, Will Now Be Able to Defeat the Fascist? #IndiaNEWSAll #East West Bengal in its second phase of Assembly elections held for

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Nandigram: A Sight of Collective Struggle against Capitalist Propaganda, Will Now Be Able to Defeat the Fascist? #IndiaNEWSAll #East
West Bengal in its second phase of Assembly elections held for 30 seats, recorded a voter turnout of nearly about 82 percent, amid sporadic cases of violence in Nandigram, Keshpur constituency. TMC, the ruling party of the state, and BJP have accused each other of booth jamming, rigging, and threatening of their respective booth agents. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee even slammed Election Commission and CRPF for not responding responsively to complaints of booth capturing by BJP and for allegedly working on the direction of Amit Shah. Suvendu Adhikari, the former minister from TMC and now a BJP candidate, and Mamata Banerjee, both of whom have been contesting for the Nandigram constituency, have challenged to defeat each other with a great margin.
Suvendu Adhikaris father and brother Sisir and Dipyendu Adhikari, MPs from East Midnapore and now TMC turncoats, who are commonly known as Adhikari family, enjoy a considerable influence over the whole district. Shuvendu Adhikari,
after resigning from TMC just before a few months ago the election, started playing on the narrative of religious polarisation of Sangh Parivar and BJP by conjuring up baseless arguments of appeasement politics of the minority by TMC, just to consolidate the Hindu voters in his favour. The grievances of people against the local TMC leaders are genuine enough, for their alleged involvement in various cases of corruption, extortion and failure in the disbursement of compensation money of cyclone Amphan. But the vicious campaign of referring to Mamata as a Begum and telling voters that a vote to TMC means a vote to Pakistan, is largely affecting the social dynamics of Nandigram. According to the Census of 2011, the Nandigram assembly segment had a total population of 331,054, of whom 244,867 (73. 96%) were Hindus and 25. 88% were Muslims. Scheduled Castes made up 16. 46% of the population. With people like Yogi Adityanath, Smriti Irani frequently coming to Bengal and furthering the hate ideology of Hindutva and pro-corporate policies underneath, there is an attempt being made to wipe out the history of a shared past of struggle and coexistence of Hindu and Muslim communities. People from the Muslim community have expressed their anger for being called Pakistanis. This kind of extremist communal politics is very unfamiliar to them as they have co-existed peacefully for decades.
Nandigram which is being treated as a hot topic by media for two heavyweight candidates and the simmering communal tension also had been a sight of farmers movement in 2007, against a forceful land acquisition move by the then CPI(M) government for the construction of a chemical hub by Indonesian Salim group.

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