FLOWER POWER

SEASONAL BLOOM – A pair of Lily in Cooch Behar on Tuesday.

SAGAR DIGHI

Budding swimmers at Sagar Dighi in Cooch Behar on Monday.

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RAJDHANI EXPRESS

CPM detains Rajdhani at New Cooch Behar

The passengers of the Delhi bound Rajdhani Express had to face a tough time due to a Rail Roko stir that was staged at New Cooch Behar Railway Station by two frontal organisations of the CPI-M today. The blockade continued for about an hour.

The Cooch Behar district units of the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) and the Centre for Indian Trade Unions (CITU) staged the Rail Roko programme at 11 a.m. at New Cooch Behar Railway Station today. They also organised a gathering on the platforms of the station. Among the speakers at the gathering there were Cooch Behar MP (Rajya Sabha) and district CITU secretary Mr Tarini Roy and district DYFI secretary Mr Mahananda Saha.

District DYFI secretary Mr Mahananda Saha said the Rail Roko programme was planned to highlight their nine-point charter of demands including better amenities for the passengers. They also submitted a memorandum to the Alipurduar Divisional Railway Manager of the Northeast Frontier Railway through the station superintendent of the New Cooch Behar Railway Station.

During the demonstration when the 2423 Dn Guwahati-Delhi Rajdhani Express arrived at the station the agitators halted it amid heavy downpour. Though there were law enforcing forces like police and GRP they failed to convince the agitators from detaining the train. The agitators continued their blockade for about an hour.

Among the demands raised by the DYFI and the CITU there are : launching of double-line facility along New Jalpaiguri-New Alipurduar-New Cooch Behar section, speedy completion of New Mainaguri-Jogighopa railway project, introduction of train service between New Cooch Behar and Dhubri, plying of Uttar Banga Express up to Dinhata, stoppage of Garib Rath at New Cooch Behar and introduction of a chair car train between New Cooch Behar and Siliguri.

NCC

NCC annual combined camp ends

The ten-day combined annual training camp of the National Cadet Corps organised by the 13 Bengal Bn NCC at Jenkins School and Maharaja Nripendra Narayan High School in Cooch Behar concluded yesterday. 516 cadets of different units attended the camp. Group Commander Col MS Gaur visited the camp on 26 June and encouraged the cadets.

The participating cadets practiced various activities including military and non-military ones and cultural and social awareness programmes were also conducted during the camp days according to the camp adjutant Surajit Kumar Dhar. (END)

PHOTO : Target practice by NCC cadets at the annual training camp. At Jenkins School in Cooch Behar on Saturday.

REST AND BUY !

The rest-shed of passengers turns a paan-shop along Cooch Behar-Dinhata road. At Bhetaguri in Dinhata on Sunday.

RIVER EROSION

Cultivable lands being gobbled up by widespread erosion of Dharala river. At Baro-Soulmari in Dinhata on Sunday.

WOMEN POWER

Forest Minister faces Trinamul women demonstration

State forest minister Mr Ananta Roy had to face demonstration at his own Assembly constituency (Mathabhanga) today. Police had to intervene and detain three agitators to control the situation. Women activists of the Trinamul Congress organised the demonstration. Later, they also demonstrated at the police station.

The minister went to attend a joint programme named 'Mathabhanga Sabujayan' (drive for a green Mathabhanga) organised by the forest division and Mathabhanga Municipality at Melar Math Mukta Mancha near Mathabhanga police station today. At about 11-30 a group of women supporters of the Trinamul Congress appeared there and started demonstrating against the minister. It went on for about an hour. During the agitation they threw off chairs of the pandal and also threw a Saree to the minister on the dais. At last, police resorted to lathi-charge to control the situation. Three agitators were also nabbed.

Demanding unconditional release of the nabbed three a demonstration was also held at the Mathabhanga police station.

District Trinamul Mahila Congress chairperson Ms Kalyani Poddar said Mr Ananta Roy got elected from Mathabhanga Assembly constituency but did nothing for the people of this constituency. In the recent Lok Sabha election the CPI-M failed to retain majority in Mathabhanga Constituency. Now, he has no right to represent Mathabhanga in the state Assembly.

Ms Poddar alleged that the peoples of Mathabhanga are suffering, as there was no bridge on Sutunga river for a long. Foundation for a new one was done about two years ago but the minister took no initiative to construct the much-awaited bridge. In the name of Sabujayan there is a plan to evict roadside traders from Shani Mandir to Madan Mohan Bari in the town, she alleged. "The people will not allow these anti-people policies for ever", she said.

Ms Poddar also said there was a plan to organise a Mamata Action Brigade in the district to fight against misrule of the CPI-M and anti-people policies of the authorities. Today's demonstration is a dress rehearsal of the proposed MAB.

Criticising the role of the police the forest minister said the police should have to stop the rally of the Trinamul supporters that was proceeding towards the Mukta Mancha. They failed to intervene quickly and so the pandemonium went on for an hour. Mr Roy said he conveyed the matter to the SP in Cooch Behar. Tomorrow, he will also tell it to the chief minister in Kolkata.

Cooch Behar SP Mr Devendra Prakash Singh said three persons were detained but later they have been released. He however denied of any incident of lathi-charge.

DOOARS

The remains of the abandoned railway bridge near Jainti in the Dooars.

HERITAGE

The historic Rajbari Dighi needs renovation. In Jalpaiguri on Friday.

DEMONSTRATION

Members of the Bhumihara Bastoohara Sangram Committee demonstrate at the office of the district magistrate demanding immediate compensation and rehabilitation for the landless people who were displaced for land acquisition for the New Mainaguri-Jogighopa railway project. In Cooch Behar on Thursday.