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The Tribune says: We must have at least a whistle-blower institution. It’s a difficult process, but the alternative would be to hand over an important issue of development to the politicians, who will only take it to the streets in order to entertain us all. And, of course, to further their own careers.

In the meantime, at Nandigram which has traditionally been a left bastion, voting time and again for successive Left Front governments in the state, they say "For 30 years, Left Front had taught us to fight capitalists. They took land from them and gave poor people small amounts of land. After 30 years, now they want to snatch our land and gift it to industrialists, why will poor people accept that."

Anger and violence is now giving way to the people's movement in Nandigram. The 15-member committee that has been formed to protect land from being acquired has made it amply clear that under no circumstance will the agitation be scaled down until the government agrees to relocate the proposed SEZs.

So now, of course, there is violence and death.