They took our land forcefully, looted our crops, took fruits from Gardens, fish from ponds, plus social boycott for months.
A horror story which has been covered up.
TARGET.
All happened in rural Bengal, not in Kolkata. Soft target was non-communist families specially from upper caste (bramhin, kayastha, sadgope).
Small businessman, gov employees. CPM rule in Bengal started from 1978. they introduced land reformation law in 1979.
as per law, anyone in rural Bengal cant own more that 20 bighas of land.
Plan was government will take extra land and will distribute it to the landless. They did and it was appreciated by many. But they did not stop, they started to snatch the land Illegally.
The Local party offices started to mark the families who had less than 20 bighas of land but had other source of income. They said, who are doing gov job and have even small business need not to own any farming land and to give it to poor (communist party members).
LAAL JHANDA
Who would give their land voluntarily?
So, in every week, 100s of CPM members and leaders would go to a village and placed Laal Jhanda in farming land. Once the laal jhanda placed in a land, that land would be captured by the communists.
DHAAN LOOT
There was another easy form. They would let some people to cultivate rice and store those in farmhouse. After that they would go and loot those crops. It would happen in every crop season and when landowners tried to resist, they kill them or set fire to their home.
Fruits, Fishes and Social Boycott
Mob of communist party member anytime could come and loot the mangos or coconuts from jotdars gardens. They could loot your fish from ponds. to teach the lessons to class enemies they would socially boycott some families.
Total boycott
Even no local shop owner dared to sell the groceries to boycotted persons. no maid in home. no farm labors. CPM used brutal force to fulfil their agenda. killed thousands of people in rural Bengal. and destroyed the industries and agriculture in Bengal
(This article has been compiled from the tweet thread posted by @Sham_Bharat on April 24, 2024, with minor edits to improve readability and conform to HinduPost style guide)
