Veteran Chartist

West Bengal TMC was defeated not by the BJP : But by : Election Commission Central Forces (CAPF) and by the disenfranchisement of 2.5million voters This election was stolen not won ! We must stand by Mamta

Mamata Banerjee, "I will not resign, I did not lose, I will not go to Raj Bhavan. Question doesn't arise. We didn't lose the election. It is their attempt to defeat us. Officially, through the Election Commission they can defeat us but morally we won the election."

The Nicobar Island Development Project is illegal under UNCLOS, and the international community should not allow such projects to disrupt the flow of global trade. What is the intent behind installing a military chokehold in the middle of the world’s busiest shipping routes?

I travelled through Great Nicobar today. These are the most extraordinary forests I have ever seen in my life. Trees older than memory. Forests that took generations to grow. The people on this island are equally beautiful - both the adivasi communities and the settlers - but they are being robbed of what is rightfully theirs. The government calls what it is doing here a “Project.” What I have seen is not a project. It is millions of trees marked for the axe. It is 160 square kilometres of rainforest condemned to die. It is communities that have been ignored while their homes have been snatched away. This is not development. This is destruction dressed in development’s language. So I will say it plainly, and I will keep saying it: what is being done in Great Nicobar is one of the biggest scams and gravest crimes against this country’s natural and tribal heritage in our lifetime. It must be stopped. And it can be stopped - if Indians choose to see what I have seen.