Indian Americans want answers from WB govt

About 75 Indian-American academics and professionals filed a joint application under India's [ Images ] Right to Information Act at the Indian embassy in Washington, DC, demanding information from the West Bengal [ Images ] government on the violence in Nandigram [ Images ].

The applicants said they were 'appalled by the recent spate of large scale displacement and violence in Nandigram.' They condemned the government for its 'total apathy to the repeated intimations of imminent violence' by the Bhoomi Uchhed Protirodh Committee, a group of people from Nandigram opposing the acquisition of agricultural land proposed by the state earlier this year.

The applicants also held the government responsible for its failure to protect the lives and rights of the villagers, and demanded information on the number of people killed or injured in the violence since November 4.

The concerned non-resident Indians, many of them volunteers and supporters of the Association for