In fact, it was when the leaders – including Lalmohan Tudu, Sidhu Soren and Chhatradhar Mahato - went to inform the Lalgarh police station about the Rail Roko call, that senior officials assured them of looking into the major issues. The Committee sat for four hours to hammer out the deal with Additional District Magistrate (General) Aaron Israel, Additional Police Super (Town) Shubhankar Sinha Sarkar, DSP (Operation) Arnab Ghosh and other senior administration 
officials.
It is important to recall that the massive tribal stir that swept away CPI(M) cadres and chased away police from village after village in the entire Jungle Mahal area, flared up in protest against mindless police atrocities in the wake of the so-called bomb attack on a convoy of state Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on October 8. Police unleashed a massive repression. A pregnant woman suffered a miscarriage in brutal beating. Police arrested three school children and some women, accusing them of trying to assassinate the CM! By the way, the atrocities were focussed in the same Chhotopelia village where the tribals surrounded the CRPF party on December 8.
The upsurge has now spread across Bankura, West Medinipur, Purulia and also Nadia and Barddhaman, where tribal people are not so large in numbers. And Lalgarh today is being likened by analysts to the Santhal Rebellion against the British Raj that had shaken the Empire! Possibly sensing is, Bhattacharjee apologised for police atrocity in the state Assembly, but that has clearly cut no ice....Continue
officials.It is important to recall that the massive tribal stir that swept away CPI(M) cadres and chased away police from village after village in the entire Jungle Mahal area, flared up in protest against mindless police atrocities in the wake of the so-called bomb attack on a convoy of state Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on October 8. Police unleashed a massive repression. A pregnant woman suffered a miscarriage in brutal beating. Police arrested three school children and some women, accusing them of trying to assassinate the CM! By the way, the atrocities were focussed in the same Chhotopelia village where the tribals surrounded the CRPF party on December 8.
The upsurge has now spread across Bankura, West Medinipur, Purulia and also Nadia and Barddhaman, where tribal people are not so large in numbers. And Lalgarh today is being likened by analysts to the Santhal Rebellion against the British Raj that had shaken the Empire! Possibly sensing is, Bhattacharjee apologised for police atrocity in the state Assembly, but that has clearly cut no ice....Continue
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