The Governor ought to step out of Raj Bhavan if he is keen to involve himself in politics, veteran CPI(M) leader Benoy Konar told a rally on Saturday as leader after leader blasted the Governor, the Calcutta High Court and civil society for criticising the party over Nandigram. “He (Gopalkrishna Gandhi) may even carry the Trinamool flag if he wishes,” Konar said.The rally was held to press the party’s demand for return of peace to Nandigram, days after armed CPI(M) cadres re-entered the village from where they had been ousted for 11 months by people opposed to land acquisition. But the CPI(M) sources said the rally was actually held to boost the morale of the party cadres whose actions have been severely criticised by some Left Front partners, the Governor, the Calcutta High Court and huge number of intellectuals and the general public, irrespective of political affiliation. While Konar took on the Governor, CPI(M) state secretary Biman Bose reserved his bile for the High Court. On Friday, a Division Bench of Chief Justice S S Nijjar and Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose had termed the March 14 police firing in Nandigram as “wholly unconstitutional and unjustifiable” and ordered the CBI to carry out a full-fledged inquiry into the incident.Bose said: “The party has told the state Government that it should move the Supreme Court against the High Court order. We feel the court has interfered in the state’s domain.” Bose was also critical of the intellectuals who had taken to the streets in a silent protest against the “violence unleashed by the CPI(M) cadres” at Nandigram over the past ten days.
