Kolkata: It's literally a battleground in Nandigram, with anarchy still ruling the area. As CRPF men moved into the villages of Nandigram on Tuesday and began clearing the area of arms and ammunition, several landmines and other sophisticated weapons were recovered from the villages. CRPF men also discovered a decomposed body in one of the villages.
The recoveries took place on a day when the West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee tried to defend the CPM cadre over the Nandigram episode.
The body recovered by the CRPF has not been identified as yet. The local police too are clueless about the identity of the person. CRPF DIG Alok Raj said that two pistols, rifles and landmines were recovered from Sonachura and Jelingham which had been held by Bhumi Uchched Pratirodh Committee supported by Trinamool.
Raj, however, said he has no knowledge as to who left them there.
The area wore a desolate look with fear still writ large on the faces of the villagers. There are still pockets of resistance.
When a NDA delegation led by senior BJP leader LK Advani toured parts of Nandigram earlier on Tuesday, disconsolate relatives of the victims of violence narrated their tales to the delegation. Advani later said he has never seen this kind of terror in his long political career.
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, however, defended his party's recapture of Nandigram, saying CPI(M) supporters had returned home by paying back their opponents in 'their own coin'.
"They have been paid back in the same coin. Our supporters, after remaining away from their homes for 11 months, were desperate to return. They risked their lives and returned home," he told a press conference in Kolkata.
Asked whether the peace of the crematorium has returned to Nandigram, Bhattacharjee shot back "then was all that happened in the last 11 months a sign of heavenly peace?" He accused the Centre of delaying the dispatch of CRPF, saying ''had they arrived in time, the violence could have been avoided."
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