West Bengal's artists and intellectuals have kicked up a storm over Nandigram. They want to know what the Left Front government is doing to restore normalcy in the region.
''The way they are treating people they are just fascists we just every moment we are thinking that they should resign from the government. That is the ultimate. We are just approaching common people to just stand for this,'' said Subha Prasanya, Painter
As the people of this state wait for the government to take some effective measures in Nandigram to restore peace and normalcy on the ground, protests are growing.
Here, intellectual theatre and film personalities are the latest to join the pressure group for the government to find a way out of the situation there.
The protesters at Nandan, the venue for the 13th Kolkata Film Festival, were treated roughly.
Close to 100 artists, writers and poets were picked up and bundled into police vans and taken to the central lock up in the police headquarters at Lalbazar.
There were no women police to deal with the women protesters. The police action was roundly condemned.
''Today in West Bengal if you are not supporting the Left you will be called biased. This is like dictarorship. Where is the moral superiority of the Left? Farmers are being tortured by the Left. It is horrifying,'' said Aparna Sen, Filmmaker
The protests are set to become bigger. On Wednesday, a big rally will be taken out from College Square to condemn the government's handling of Nandigram.
SOURCE : NDTV
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