From: Sukla Sen <sukla.sen@gmail.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, 22 July, 2009 8:37:45
Subject: [IHRO] Lalgarh Updates
Mahato reaches out to CPM partners
The leader of the People's Committee Against Police Atrocities, which is spearheading the tribal agitation in Lalgarh, is knocking on the doors of Left Front partners besides CPM for support. The RSP confirmed that they had talked to Chattradhar Mahato recently, and he reportedly received a favourable response from the party as well as the All India Forward Bloc.
RSP central committee member Manoj Bhattacharjee said, "We had a talk with Mahato regarding Lalgarh. We still maintain that police operation is not a solution to the problems there. We will deliberate on this issue within our party and also highlight it at the Left Front meeting."
The CPM has branded Mahato a Maoist and the security forces in Lalgarh have included him in the list of most wanted. However, both the Forward Bloc and RSP have publicly opposed banning the Maoists.
Speaking to The Indian Express on the phone, Mahato said: "Our main enemy is the CPM and police. It is not necessary that other Left Front parties should also be against us. I talked to senior leaders of RSP and Forward Bloc. I sought their support for our agitation and to stop the Lalgarh operations. They gave a favourable reply."
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http://www.ptinews. com/news/ 186676_Schools- in-Lalgarh- likely-to- be-reopened- by-August- one
Schools in Lalgarh likely to be reopened by August one
Kolkata, July 21 (PTI) A day after police lathicharged students in Lalgarh protesting against security forces occupying school buildings, the West Bengal government today said it was trying to reopen the schools by August one.
"We are looking to reopen the schools by August one," Home Secretary Ardhendu Sen told reporters here. He had earlier said security forces would vacate the schools by next month.
Sen said the Public Health Engineering department has set up four accommodations for the central forces and is in the process of building eight more alternative ones.
Admitting that demonstrations were taking place at Lalgarh over security forces' continued occupation of school buildings, Sen, however, apologised for lathicharge on students.
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