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Kabir Suman mocks at Mamata's visit to Irom Sharmila
Saturday January 28, 2012 01:58:26 PM,
IANS
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Kolkata: Trinamool
Congress MP Kabir Suman has mocked at his party chief Mamata
Banerjee for promising voters in Manipur that the Trinamool will
ensure withdrawal of the army's special powers if voted to power.
The well-known singer-turned-politician has asked why has the West
Bengal chief minister failed to keep her pledge to withdraw forces
from Maoist-hit Junglemahal.
"The supreme leader of Trinamool and the chief minister of West
Bengal in her visit to Manipur for canvassing has said that she
supports the struggle of Irom Sharmila. She has even said that
just like Irom Sharmila, the West Bengal government had tried to
forcefully feed her during her days of hunger strike in December
2006," said Suman.
Suman was referring to December 2006 when Banerjee as opposition
leader had observed a 26-day hunger strike to protest forceful
land acquisition in Singur.
"But the fact is the state government neither forced her to break
her strike nor arrested her. On the other hand, Irom Sharmila was
arrested by the army in the beginning and then she was forced to
eat by using tubes," said Suman.
Banerjee Wednesday visited Manipur to canvas for her party
candidates contesting the assembly polls in the state. She even
visited Irom Sharmila - currently in judicial custody and on a
12-year-old fast to demand withdrawal of the Armed Forces Special
Powers Act (AFSPA) that gives legal immunity to security forces
for actions undertaken while fighting militants.
Suman ridiculed Banerjee for opposing the AFSPA in Manipur and
asked why were the joint forces still stationed in the
Maoist-affected districts of West Bengal.
"I want to ask her (Banerjee) how many times in the past has she
uttered the name of Irom Sharmila in her speeches or opposed the
AFSPA? I want to ask her whether she would have taken the pain to
visit Manipur if her party was not contesting the assembly polls
in the state," Suman wrote in a blog.
"During her visit to Manipur, she has said that deployment of
armed forces cannot be a solution. If she really preaches what she
says, then I want to ask her the legitimacy of joint forces in
Junglemahal," wrote Suman.
"When I had opposed the implementation of the anti-Maoist Unlawful
Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) and the Operation Green Hunt,
then why did she oppose my views," said Suman.
Suman is having a strained relationship with the Trinamool
leadership after he raised his voice against alleged corruption
among a section of party leaders and openly condemned the joint
forces operation in the Maoist-hit districts of the state.
Of late, the balladeer has attacked the state government on issues
like farmers' suicides, deaths caused in police firing, and has
penned a song eulogising slain Maoist leader Koteshwar Rao alias
Kishanjee.
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