The land of Singur is one of the best fertile lands in whole West Bengal. It is being noted in surveys of pre-independence India and also in post independent surveys by land and revenue department of state. Still, the state government had deliberately lied about the nature of the land in their project report for TATA car. This has been already challenged in Kolkata High Court. The case is pending. If I start compiling documents on lies it will soon be larger than any epic written so far. The state government at first asserted that the farmers of Singur are very much willing to part with their lands. They put the percentage of willing farmers to 95%. Then as the protest grew loud and clear they stepped back in statistical lies first in state legislative assembly and then in the court of law to avoid further slamming from judiciary. But we must know why these deliberations take place at the first place.

It is because they rule on the basis of terror. The present statistic of member of assembly seats shows that the Left Front had won at 235 seats and opposition parties are nowhere in 294 seats strong assembly. But if one goes through the count of votes the ruling front received a little more than 50% and rest lies with opposition. Moreover the total vote that West Bengal electorates applied in this election is less than 50%. So seat count does not prove the real political scenario.

At my earlier reportage I mentioned that votes are being manipulated by the ruling front with a great skill. Add this phenomenon with vote related result and one will know what this verdict stands for.

All the above mentioned facts and analysis had its place in mainstream print and audio-visual media in a very scattered manner. But why this is not being chased strongly by Medias, as they are the guardians of democracy in all over the world?

Are they? Throughout the world Medias are owned by private or state capital. In both systems they play those tunes only that suit them. We witness this very sharply at the time of war because of the magnitude of the incident. Medias turned partisan and patriots over night. They place irrelevant or manufactured data and arguments for the cause of warring nation. That nation may be the offender or defender in the war. Take for example the role US Media had played at the beginning of Iraq war. Certain individuals who took their oath to journalism by heart wrote in the other way had been sacked and branded as traitors. We all know this truth. At the time of less stressed happenings we sometimes fail to understand the actual role of Media in today's world. I from my personal experience know that journalists are human being and they fear for their lives, jobs and security. At the hour of need most of them fall in line with their editorial policy to save their skin. Though they know that the truth lies somewhere else they can not write it and if someone dares then obviously it finds no space in air or paper. That poor fellow becomes vulnerable to threats from high and mightier whose interest were hurt or questioned.

Even in this episode of land fight in Singur or Nandigram that happened. The medias those are opposing this brutality right now had played the governments tune earlier. They never questioned the wisdom of industrialization in this fashion. They never asked if industrialization is the only solution then why there are growing joblessness and discontent in USA, Germany, Britain, France and elsewhere in the so-called developed world? They never mind to answer that how exactly the Asian tigers like Hong Kong, Singapore etc collapsed with their thriving economy? Plenty of unasked and unanswered questions are there, yet they sang the song of supposed industrialization. Now as the ruthlessness of CPIM led government has came to fore and even they are not being spared to disagree they are shouting. It started in local and regional level will soon catch up national Media.

'Times of India' is a paper with capitalist background and others too. They are trying to promote liberal economy at any cost. Others are not different and let me tell you that one of the important channels in national level has its owner who is closest relative of CPIM politbueuro member and the General Secretary too. It played a conspicuous silent role in the whole episode. In other cases like state sponsored minority massacre in Gujarat, India it was vocal at the highest level. Now it is mum. Do I need to explain more? I remember Prof. Noam Chomsky's writings on this mass communication issue and I had found all his writing very much authentic.

I wrote those earlier paragraphs to make a base for my response towards a point raised by CPIM politbueuro member Mr. Sitaram Yetchury's comment in the Times of India. He said that Nandigram is a small block in 300 more block oriented West Bengal and the little problem it had aroused had been tackled by his party's government with haste. I do not call it a lie. Rather I will point out this as an example of 'truth manufacturing'. I read that at the period of First World War American President Mr. Wilson' government deliberately spread rumors of vicious Hoon attack in Belgium filled with horror to make the American ready for war. In the then policy of America it was maintained that unless being attacked by external force the state should not go to war. The publicity machine of American government had made a fool out of American commoners and finally participated in war. Present American government followed suit after the cold war and had started a shadow war on terrorism to curb out benefits for its military-industrial complex in Afghanistan and Iraq and soon in some other place. Mr. Yetchury's comment is a leaf taken out of that page. He is playing in national level politics. The ruling combination is UPA-Left alliance. UPA is consisted of Congress (I), RJD, DMK and such other parties. All other parties barring Congress (I) only are regional and they have no national level presence of importance. On the other hand Left have three state governments under them, namely West Bengal, Tripura and Kerala. They are supporting this Congress led government from outside. The Left have a strong presence in number of members of parliament from these states and are using their number leverage to turn and twist Central government at will. If they opt to withdraw their support this Central government can not pass the majority test in parliament voting against a probable no confidence motion and will be out of power. At the national level they are not being vocal. The opposition NDA allies are BJP, TMC and some other regional parties are trying hard to create noise. But that too is merely a stage managed one. BJP is a party connected with Hindu fundamentalist and most of the sufferers are Muslim in Nandigram. So they are only pitting this incident to suggest that in Gujarat massacre of Muslim minorities they were blamed as rulers but it is also true elsewhere. CPIM is supposedly a secular force and even they are doing this with minorities. They are playing this card to tame any allegation from CPIM and Congress concerning Gujarat. CPIM is in the back foot and they now are thinking many a time before criticizing BJP in minority issues. Thus far and no more is BJP's concern. TMC on the other hand had only one seat in this parliament and that is of their supreme Ms. Mamata Bannerjee. She is not attending any parliamentary session because she knew that she will not be able to do much with this little strength. Of course there is another point. The speaker of the lower parliament or Loksabha is a CPIM leader and by all means will try to dislodge any effort to launch a debate in parliament. Present debate on a rather vague topic of SEZ related questions had proved my point. Nandigram is a state subject and that is why it can not be raised in Parliamentary debate. So the whole debate with half heart and steam did nothing to serve purpose. We have to see Mr. Yetchury's comment in this typical politics of group interest context.

He made out this statement on knowing that there will not be any strong opposition to quash this and he was right. None had pointed out that if this is such a small problem then why it took CPIM anti-socials more than a year to move in that territory? Why for the past 11 months no governmental organization even police force ventured in Nandigram? Why booker winner Arundhuti Roy, social activist Medha Patkar, noted historians like Irfan Habib and Sumit Sarkar had to heat the road in India's capital city Delhi? I do not want to make the intelligencia list any longer. It is these people in state and national level are condemning the barbaric act. Peoples like Mr. Yetchury are merely a party spokesperson and manufacturing truth is their business is there business. That is the only way to grab and keep hold on power. This very man went to Nepal sometimes ago to facilitate a negotiation between Maoist and Nepali Congress to challenge autocrat King Gyanendra and in India they are against any political solution of Maoist insurgency. Know why this double standard they maintain? Just to keep a separate rational and radical face in international arena. They send rice to Castro's Cuba as brotherhood gesture, invited Hugo Chavez as a compatriot revolutionary, still holding populous demonstration using state machinery at will against American imperialism and give a red carpet welcome to McNamara, the Vietnam war criminal and the then USA policy maker. They invited notorious Salem group of Indonesia and DOWS Chemical to invest in West Bengal SEZ. Do I need to write more on their double standards? Do I need to write more why Mr. Yetchury had dared to put this issue in this manner? As far as I am concerned nobody can suppress the truth. I will like to sign off with an observation made by National Human Rights Commission chief Mr. Rajendrababu after visiting Nandigram in the present state of fear that this is a scar in the face of India as a nation. Like the Chief Justice of Kolkata High Court, he is also being hounded by CPIM big leaders as conspirators and biased observer for this. Is Mr. Yetchury listening? Please tell the entire world that no such place as Nandigram exists in the map of West Bengal and we are all talking about an absurd drama being penned by his party and directed by Mayakovsky, Marquez translator cultured Chief Minister Mr. Buddhadeb Bhattacharya or it may be in a form of theatre of oppressed like August Boal. No death, no bloodshed, no forceful eviction, just a mere popped up play ornamentation.