No industry in Bengal

Factors/ reasons for obstructing WB industrialization: -

i. CPI-M/ Left opposition to N – deal = vested interests/ imperialists needed to settle score/ deflect CPI-M from its vehement opposition; also dent the moral authority gained by CPI-M as watchdog of the sovereignty & self – reliance of the country;

ii. Deflect/ dent the moral authority/ settle – score with CPI-M for its strident & fundamental opposition to imperialist globalization;

iii. Prevent the ideological appeal of Marxism – Leninism being propagated by CPI-M from spreading to the whole country if after the widely acknowledged success of Land Reforms, poverty reduction Panchayeti Raj and rural empowerment; tangible success is registered in industrialization with emphasis on employment generation based on manufacturing, IT and agro - industries;

iv. Industrialization with emphasis on employment generation based on success of Land Reforms, may generate an irresistible appeal particularly on the philistine globalised middle – class youth, which may catalyse & intensify democratic movement in the country;

v. Presence of militant trade union movement alongwith industrialization would nail the lie that militant trade union movement drove out industries from West Bengal; growth in the no. of industries will help swell the no. of workers and may in turn further intensify their movement;

vi. If peasantry may be got misled by some rich peasants/ erstwhile kulaks and set against industrialization, educated unemployed youth, urban middle – class and trade union movement, democratic movement in West Bengal may be disrupted and Land Reforms may be rolled back

vii. Disguised unemployed may be rallied against Left Front Rule; this stratum will supply lumpen foot soldiers to Mamata’s disruptions and all other fascist ventures;

viii. The steady supply of cheap skilled labour to gold & gem-cutting industry etc. in North and Western India may be retained; also steady supply of cheap unskilled labour as maids and rickshaw – pullers to urban centres of North and Western India may be ensured; a handle to Hindu Fascism to use the bogey of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants”

ix. Retain the stranglehold on the now sizable rural market of Bengal for profits of industries outside Bengal

x. Mamata wants industrialists to purchase land from peasants direct, so that the peasants may be paid less than in Govt. acquisition and the industrialists do not have to shoulder any rehabilitation and alternative income generation responsibility.