Make peace, get jobs: Mamata
9 Aug 2012 7:49 AM IST
After conducting successful polls in the hills, West Bengal’s Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee seems to have trained her guns on Jangalmahal. At a rally in Maoist infested Belpahari on Wednesday, Banerjee’s message was loud and clear, drop the gun and embrace development.
‘I will give you jobs. There is the 100-day work scheme. There will be ITI in all the blocks.
There will be 331 kissan bazars. The police has already employed 5000 youth. The Railways too has recruited locals. I will ensure better education and jobs. But there has to be peace,’ Banerjee announced at a rally.
This was her fifth visit to Jangalmahal after she became the chief minister in May last year. This was also for the first time the chief minister visited Belpahari.
Elaborate police arrangements had been made for Chief Minister’s visit to Belpahari. Even though Maoist activities in the area are under control of the joint forces and the state government, the police ensured the tightest security ring for the Chief Minister. Belpahari is located in the Bengal-Jharkhand border and was a strong Maoist hideout even till last year.
Banerjee had promised to set up several rural hospitals in Jangalmahal and made it clear that no one in the region will remain either landless or homeless in the first five year term of her government. ‘No development has taken place in Jangalmahal during the CPI-M’s 35 year old rule. Their leaders never even came here’, she told the huge gathering.
Reviewing the performance of West Midnapore district adminsitration under which Belpahari fall, Banerjee asked BDOs and the local police to work in the interest of the people. She had made several commitments during her last visit to Lalgarh in April and now intends to examine how many of such commitments have been fulfilled by the district authorities in the past four months.
MAOIST MENACE
‘I will give you jobs. There is the 100-day work scheme. There will be ITI in all the blocks.
There will be 331 kissan bazars. The police has already employed 5000 youth. The Railways too has recruited locals. I will ensure better education and jobs. But there has to be peace,’ Banerjee announced at a rally.
This was her fifth visit to Jangalmahal after she became the chief minister in May last year. This was also for the first time the chief minister visited Belpahari.
Elaborate police arrangements had been made for Chief Minister’s visit to Belpahari. Even though Maoist activities in the area are under control of the joint forces and the state government, the police ensured the tightest security ring for the Chief Minister. Belpahari is located in the Bengal-Jharkhand border and was a strong Maoist hideout even till last year.
Banerjee had promised to set up several rural hospitals in Jangalmahal and made it clear that no one in the region will remain either landless or homeless in the first five year term of her government. ‘No development has taken place in Jangalmahal during the CPI-M’s 35 year old rule. Their leaders never even came here’, she told the huge gathering.
Reviewing the performance of West Midnapore district adminsitration under which Belpahari fall, Banerjee asked BDOs and the local police to work in the interest of the people. She had made several commitments during her last visit to Lalgarh in April and now intends to examine how many of such commitments have been fulfilled by the district authorities in the past four months.
MAOIST MENACE
- Districts like West Midnapore, Bankura and Purulia of West Bengal affected by Naxalite-Maoist menace.
- Joint action force of the state and central governments have been able to contain violence in the area to some extent.
- Dreaded Maoist leader Kishenji killed this year.
- Mamata Banerjee’s election promise was to bring peace and development to the hills and Jangalmahal.
- Has now appealed to Maoists to shun violence and come back to the mainstream, promised education, employment.
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