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Woman held as Mamata cracks down on ‘Naxal sympathisers’
Joyeeta Das, a graduate of Jadavpur University and founder member of suspected Maoist front Mahila Matangini Samiti, was arrested by the police late Friday night, the first time the Mamata Banerjee government has cracked down on “Maoist sympathisers” in Kolkata. Joyeeta was remanded in police custody till August 14 by a local court on Saturday. Police told the court Joyeeta was an active member of the Maoists’ city committee and claimed to have seized “incriminating” Maoist documents and letters from her.
Joyeeta is known in the city committee as “Titas”, police sources said. It is the first arrest after Mamata said in Lalgarh that her government would come down heavily on “Maoist sympathisers” in Kolkata. Joyeeta’s parents are central government employees and she is married to Abhigyan Sarkar, the editor of New Dawn, a pro-Naxal magazine. Sarkar is also a PhD scholar at JU. Joyeeta, along with Debolina Chakraborty, president of Matangini Mahila Samiti, had allegedly played a key role during the Singur and Nadigram land movement. At that time, both were close to the Trinamool Congress. The Mahila Matangini Samiti also played a significant role during the Lalgarh movement.
But after the TMC came to power, the ruling party started distancing itself from the Mahila Matangini Samiti and later disowned it. Significantly, it was Mamata who had set both Joyeeta and Debolina free when they were confined in a room by Left parties when the Left Front was in power. Debolina had earlier been arrested for participating in the Nonandanga eviction movement. She was given bail after two months. Though she now keeps away from mass movements and rights groups, Joyeeta took part in the women’s movement in Kamduni, where a 20-year-old student was raped and murdered. A senior police officer said, “Joyeeta was very active in the organisation. She was moving from place to place to organise the Maoists’ movement again. She was trying to regroup several frontal organisations of the Maoists before the Lok Sabha elections.”
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