TMC, CPM MPs enter into verbal spat over land bill
31 Aug 2013 5:01 AM IST
Lok Sabha on Thursday witnessed a verbal spat between agitating Trinamool Congress and CPM MPs who nearly came to blows during the debate on Land Acquisition Bill, a hot political issue in West Bengal.
It all started when Trinamool Congress leader Sudip Bandyopadhyay, while participating in the debate on the measure, referred to incidents during acquisition of land in West Bengal’s Nandigram and Singur for industries when the Left was in power.
CPM MPs led by Ram Chandra Dome were seen protesting against Badyopadhyay, who said that many farmers agitating against forceful land acquisition died of bullets in Nandigram and Singur when then state Government applied a more than century old Land Acquisition Act, 1894, to acquire land.
Trinamool MPs led by Kalyan Banerjee and Saugata Roy countered the agitating CPM MPs which led to a heated exchange of words between them. Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh, who moved the bill for consideration and passing, and Minister of State in Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) V Narayanasamy managed to pacify the agitating MPs.
However, the situation again went out of control when CPM leader Basudeb Acharia was invited for the debate. Trinamool MPs including Banerjee and Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar shouted at Acharia.
CPM MPs including Dome, MB Rajesh and A Sampath reacted angrily towards the agitating MPs and the two sides nearly came to blows. As angry exchange of words by both the sides continued, Ramesh, parliamentary affairs minister Kamal Nath, many veteran parliamentarians including SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav tried to pacify them.
It all started when Trinamool Congress leader Sudip Bandyopadhyay, while participating in the debate on the measure, referred to incidents during acquisition of land in West Bengal’s Nandigram and Singur for industries when the Left was in power.
CPM MPs led by Ram Chandra Dome were seen protesting against Badyopadhyay, who said that many farmers agitating against forceful land acquisition died of bullets in Nandigram and Singur when then state Government applied a more than century old Land Acquisition Act, 1894, to acquire land.
Trinamool MPs led by Kalyan Banerjee and Saugata Roy countered the agitating CPM MPs which led to a heated exchange of words between them. Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh, who moved the bill for consideration and passing, and Minister of State in Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) V Narayanasamy managed to pacify the agitating MPs.
However, the situation again went out of control when CPM leader Basudeb Acharia was invited for the debate. Trinamool MPs including Banerjee and Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar shouted at Acharia.
CPM MPs including Dome, MB Rajesh and A Sampath reacted angrily towards the agitating MPs and the two sides nearly came to blows. As angry exchange of words by both the sides continued, Ramesh, parliamentary affairs minister Kamal Nath, many veteran parliamentarians including SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav tried to pacify them.
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