BJP condemns ‘repressive measures’

Staff Reporter The Hindu ‘State protecting the interests of industrial houses only’ BHUBANESWAR: The State unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) here on Saturday accused Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik-led government of “criminalising” State police force in the wake of violence in Kalinganagar and Jagatsinghpur where industrial projects were coming up. Addressing a press... Read More

Halt the Offensive Against People and End Militarisation of the Forests

Joint Statement of Forest People’s Movements Yesterday, the police have killed one person in Kalinganagar and critically injured at least thirty more; at the proposed POSCO plant site in Jagatsinghpur, Orissa, 25 platoons of police have been deployed to crush the people defending their land. They expect an attack tomorrow or the day after. As national platforms of democratic... Read More

NFFPFW condemns the Police Terror at Chandia, Kalinganagar.

Stop Attacking People To Please The Corporate Lobby! The death of Lakshman Jamud in Police Firing in Chandia village of Kalinganagar area today (12 May 2010) has shocked and angered us, along with all democratic-minded citizens of the country. Ever since the heinous murder of 14 adivasis in 2006, Kalinganagar has been synonymous with people’s democratic resistance against corporate... Read More

URGENT: One person killed in Kalinga Nagar shooting

Update From Surya shankar dash Lakshman Zamuda, aged between 50-55, has been killed in the police firing at Chandia today while two women have been seriously injured. One of the women, Jema, aged 32 and unmarried has been seriously injured with reports indicating that 6 bullets have hit her waist. The other woman Basanti Bankiri, aged 30, is married and has 4 children. Her legs... Read More

Kalinga Nagar: Police Lathi charges in Chandia village today

Update from Surya shankar dash On the 6th of May, the large contingent of police had stayed out of Chandia village when villagers strongly opposed them from entering the village (see below) and only a small group was allowed to enter the village and demolish the displaced people’s houses. There was no untoward incident reported that day but four days later a large contingent... Read More

URGENT: SAVE CHANDIA!

Today morning a large contingent of armed forces have reached Chandia village where people have threatened to commit mass suicide if they are forced out. Despite yesterday’s meeting where thousands of people gathered to protest against forceful land acquisition the Govt has responded to the people by sending armed forces again. Yesterday the leaders of the Bisthapan Birodhi... Read More

Monthly Tata Sponsored Devastation of Baligotha village by Govt?

Today, exactly a month after the savage attack on 30 March by armed forces and Tata goons, a large contingent of armed forces arrived again at Baligotha village alongwith some JCB machines. Then they unleashed another round of devastation upon the village that is yet to recover from the last attack and has also lost two villagers to diseases as they have been cordoned off by Tata... Read More

Tata Steel Plant Foundation being laid with Mysterious Murders Forceful Demolitions in Kalinga Nagar

Late night yesterday villagers of Gadapur in Kalinga Nagar heard the sound of a tractor approaching. They were alarmed it might be the police again as in the last one week some 20-odd houses in the village have been demolished by the District Administration & Industrial Development Corporation of Orissa under heavy police deployment. The reason is that these houses belong to... Read More

URGENT: DEMOCRACY BUTCHERED IN KALINGA NAGAR AS POLICE FORCEFULLY INVADES VILLAGES

On March 28,2010 the Bisthapan Birodhi Jan Manch leaders and villagers welcomed Jajpur District Collector and had a discussion with him on the controversial common corridor though they knew it very well the district administration had other motives. After talks with activists of Bisthapan Birodhi Jan Manch and more than 300 villagers the Collector assured them that there would be... Read More