Communist Leaders Devise Plans to Oppose SEZ
Patna: April 20, 2007
 Addressing at a seminar convened to oppose the Center's Special Economic Zones (SEZ) policy, Communist leaders in Patna on Friday appealed to all leftist party leaders to unite and oppose the policy by staging nationwide protests, rallies, and other disruptive activities calling the policy anti-poor and anti-farmers.
Communist Party of India (ML) face and general secretary Deepankar Bhattacharya, at a meeting organized at the A. N. Sinha Institute in Patna, said the government was trying to seize lands owned by the farmers in the name of progress and development and this must be opposed with full force to foil this 'devious plan that was clearly anti-democratic and pro-capitalist'.
"SEZ policy is as draconian and dangerous as the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) that will give the government unlimited power to crush the voice of poor and helpless," Bhattacharya said.
The party general secretary also criticized the Buddhadeo government in West Bengal accusing him of succumbing to capitalist forces.
"It is time for all leftists to shed their internal differences and do some serious introspection after what happened in Nandigram in West Bengal," he said.
Others who demanded complete scrapping of SEZ included party state secretary Badri Narayan Lal, Nawal Kishore Chowdhary, Raja Ram Singh, Nandkishore Prasad, Saroj Chaubey, and Krishnadeo Yadav.
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