The Communist Party of India and Jharkhand Dishom Party (JDP) have jointly called Jharkhand bandh on of July 29 in protest of Keredari firing incident. It was stated by former MPs Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Mehta of CPI and Salkhan Murmu of JDP at a joint PC at Hazaribagh on Thursday.
After returning from Keredari both leaders announced that their parties will jointly fight for the victims of Keredari firing and after Jharkhand bandh of July 29, they will organise a Jan Chetna rally on August 5 at Ranchi in which the workers of both parties will take part along with the people of the state. After this rally they will move for ‘Raj Bhavan gherao’.
State Secretary of CPI Mehta and Supremo of JDP Murmu said that it was a preplanned move of administration and company in which the police fired on innocent and poor villagers. Condemning the whole incident they demanded judicial probe of this incident by a sitting judge of High Court.
They also demanded a compensation of Rs 20 lakh to the kin of the deceased Keshar Mahto who died in firing. Government job to a member of his family has also been demanded. A compensation of Rs. 10 lakhs and medical treatment on government’s cost was demanded for the injured people. In this PC acting president of JDP Sumitra Murmu and other leaders of both CPI and JDP were also present.
Since Tuesday evening after this incident the leaders of different parties are continuously visiting the Pagar village of Keredari block and the house of late Keshar Mahto. CPI(Ml) MlA Vinod Kumar Singh went there on Tuesday evening with his party leaders. After this visit Gopikant Bakshi told to newsmen in a PC at Hazaribagh yesterday that the state government has announced to form a fact finding committee which is unacceptable. CPI(Ml) also demanded judicial enquiry and raised a question that why the NTPC has started work there when the central ministry has cancelled this coal block allotment.
Babulal Marandi also visited Keredari with Pradeep Yadav and other senior party men and said that this incident is clearly a sign of failure of the government. In a PC last evening he blamed that the administration was working for the companies and not for the public. He also demanded judicial probe and constitution of displacement and resettlement commission.
AJSU Supremo Sudesh Kumar Mahto, Ex-Minister Chadraprakash Choudhary along with other party leaders went Keredari last evening and at Barkagaon they said to the newsmen that their party too wants judicial probe of this incident. Condemning the incident they said that the policies of both central and state government are responsible for this incident.
In the meantime NTPC has said that the organization is nowhere in this incident while the district police administration has suspended six policemen responsible for firing in this incident and has sent a detailed report to the headquarters.