Pratibadi Pooja in Barrackpore to protest market demolition
Place : Nona Chandanpukur Bazaar at Barrackpore
Directions : It is easy to go there from Barrackpur station; you just take a 5 minute, Rs 5 cycle ricksha ride to “Nona Chandanpukur Bajaar”.
Time : On Saptami Dibas, that is on Thursday Otober 18, 2007, at 10. 30 a.m.
The Nona-Chandanpukur Bajaar Byabshayee Bachao Committee will mount a Pratibadi Pooja. They will do so to protest the fact that
i) A market that provided many of the people of Barrackpur with their daily necessities since the early 1950’s has been wantonly destroyed;
ii) The same market had provided a means of livelihood to many hundred traders (they are all members of the Committee), and to their many dependents;
iii) when the Barrackpur Municipality demolished the market, on December 29, 2006, it did so in violation of a Court order enjoining status quo in a case previously filed by the Bachao Committee, a case that is still not disposed of;
iv) the municipality is in contempt of Court, but it cares nothing for that…. and therefore for the rule of law;
v) the interests of the traders were wantonly disregarded by a municipality hungry for the fruits of “development” i.e, for the kick backs that such development would bring to them (Residents of kolkata, remember the case of the Park Circus market).
Meher Engineer, Sabyasachi Deb, Sumit Chowdhury, Aditi Chowdhury, Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri, Manash Joardar, Pranab Banerjee, Ladly Mukherjee, Shyamal Chakrabarty, Tarun Nashkar have all agreed to be there. So has the Paschim Banga Khet Majdoor Samiti (PBKMS).