The CPI (ML) Liberation , Malda branch, today submitted an application to the Gangarampur Block development officer in south Dinajapur seeking information in detail, under section 6 and 8 of the Right to Information Act 2005, about the bond distributed among farmers for storing potatoes in the cold storage of Gangarampur Cooperative Marketing Society.
After inquiring into the police firing following an agitation staged by the local potato farmers on 27 February at Kaldighi in Gangarampur, the CPI (ML) Liberation leaders claimed that the cold storage authorities had sold off bond at high prices to the big merchants depriving the poor and marginal farmers. The CPI (ML) leaders also alleged that Gangarampur Co-operative Marketing Society is suppressing facts by hiding the computer and preparing a new list of bonds distributed to the farmers.
They demanded administrative inquiry against the society seizing the hard disk of the computer to unearth earlier records of bonds distributed to farmers while the society claimed that the computer was damaged by the angry farmers.