Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee ('Committee against Land Evictions') is an organisation in
West BengalWest Bengal is a state in eastern India. With Bangladesh, which lies on its eastern border, the state forms the ethno-linguistic region of Bengal. To its northeast lie the states of Assam and Sikkim and the country Bhutan, and to its southwest, the state of Orissa...
,
IndiaIndia, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal...
, formed to oppose the set-up of a
SEZSEZ may refer to:*Special Economic Zone*Seychelles International Airport...
in
NandigramNandigram is a rural area in Purba Medinipur district of the Indian state of West Bengal. It is located about 70 km south-west of Kolkata, on the south bank of the Haldi River, opposite the industrial city of Haldia...
. BUPC was set up on January 5, 2007, through the merger of three existing anti-SEZ initiatives; Krishak Uchchhed Birodhi O Jonoswartho Roksha Committee (Committee Against Eviction of Peasants and to Save People's Interest', was formed in August 2006 by
Socialist Unity Centre of IndiaThe Socialist Unity Centre of India is a communist party in India. The party was founded by Shibdas Ghosh in 1948.-Ideology:SUCI considers itself as the only genuine communist party in India, and follows a Marxist-Leninist ideological line formulated by Shibdas Ghosh...
(SUCI) and
Indian National CongressThe Indian National Congress is a major political party in India. Founded in 1885 by Allan Octavian Hume, Dadabhai Naoroji, Dinshaw Wacha, Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee, Surendranath Banerjee, Monomohun Ghose, and William Wedderburn, the Indian National Congress became the leader of the Indian...
), Krisi Jami Raksha Committee ('Committee to Save Farmland', founded by Trinamool Congress) and Gana Unnoyon O Jana Odhikar Sangram Samity ('Association for the Struggle of Mass
Development and People's Right', founded by Jamaat-e-Ulema-e-Hind and PCC, CPI(ML)).
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Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee ('Committee against Land Evictions') is an organisation in
West BengalWest Bengal is a state in eastern India. With Bangladesh, which lies on its eastern border, the state forms the ethno-linguistic region of Bengal. To its northeast lie the states of Assam and Sikkim and the country Bhutan, and to its southwest, the state of Orissa...
,
IndiaIndia, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal...
, formed to oppose the set-up of a
SEZSEZ may refer to:*Special Economic Zone*Seychelles International Airport...
in
NandigramNandigram is a rural area in Purba Medinipur district of the Indian state of West Bengal. It is located about 70 km south-west of Kolkata, on the south bank of the Haldi River, opposite the industrial city of Haldia...
. BUPC was set up on January 5, 2007, through the merger of three existing anti-SEZ initiatives; Krishak Uchchhed Birodhi O Jonoswartho Roksha Committee (Committee Against Eviction of Peasants and to Save People's Interest', was formed in August 2006 by
Socialist Unity Centre of IndiaThe Socialist Unity Centre of India is a communist party in India. The party was founded by Shibdas Ghosh in 1948.-Ideology:SUCI considers itself as the only genuine communist party in India, and follows a Marxist-Leninist ideological line formulated by Shibdas Ghosh...
(SUCI) and
Indian National CongressThe Indian National Congress is a major political party in India. Founded in 1885 by Allan Octavian Hume, Dadabhai Naoroji, Dinshaw Wacha, Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee, Surendranath Banerjee, Monomohun Ghose, and William Wedderburn, the Indian National Congress became the leader of the Indian...
), Krisi Jami Raksha Committee ('Committee to Save Farmland', founded by Trinamool Congress) and Gana Unnoyon O Jana Odhikar Sangram Samity ('Association for the Struggle of Mass
Development and People's Right', founded by Jamaat-e-Ulema-e-Hind and PCC, CPI(ML)). Sisir Adhikary, a Trinamool Congress MLA, is the convenor of BUPC. The Joint Secretary of the organization is Nanda Patra, a
Socialist Unity Centre of IndiaThe Socialist Unity Centre of India is a communist party in India. The party was founded by Shibdas Ghosh in 1948.-Ideology:SUCI considers itself as the only genuine communist party in India, and follows a Marxist-Leninist ideological line formulated by Shibdas Ghosh...
(SUCI) leader.