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Bengal's Bird Flu Threat Still Looms Large
While the Centre feels the state administration should immediately resume culling operations in the affected areas of the three districts, the CPI(M) is wary of the possible impact of such administrative action on its electoral fortune.
According to informed sources, many panchayat members had opposed the culling operations as they posed a veritable threat to rural economy. A large section of the rural population in West Bengal is entirely dependent on poultry farming to earn their livelihood. Most of them felt the monetary compensation provided by the state government for destroying their means of livelihood was not adequate.
The minority community, in particular, earn a living in many villages by selling chickens and eggs. Naturally a fresh drive to destroy their chickens to prevent bird flu will evoke their anger on the eve of the panchayat elections.
Some of the Left Front partners like the Forward Bloc and the RSP have also taken serious exception to the CPI(M)'s failure to make a reference to the bird flu menace in the election manifesto. The Front partners feel the manifesto should have reassured the affected people about their economic rehabilitation after the rural polls since they have been hard hit by the culling operations.
Opposition parties have also accused the state government of resorting to political discrimination while distributing the compensation money among the affected villagers. The parties intend to make culling operations a major issue in their campaign for the panchayat polls.
Source-ANI
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