Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS), an umbrella organisation of anti-displacement forums, on Friday said it apprehended a “commando-type” operation by the Orissa police in the proposed steel plant site to evict the local people.
“We are given to understand that a team led by chief secretary Bijay Patnaik, who has been personally supervising the execution of the 12-million-tonne Posco project, has already met the chief minister to seek his approval for a commando-type operation in Dhinkia — the way the American forces did it in Pakistan to kill Osama Bin Laden,” a press statement released on behalf of PPSS leader Abhaya Sahu said.
Stating that chief minister Naveen Patnaik is known for his high reliance on bureaucracy, the PPSS statement says the chief secretary was given the assignment of “commando-type” operation.
“As you all know the CM, Mr Patnaik believes too much in his bureaucracy. They have also given the police operation responsibility to DIG D.S. Kute who ruthlessly oppressed the Kalinga Nagar movement against the Tatas,” the release said.
the PPSS members said that women and children, who have formed a human barricade in the project area, would definitely oppose any “night invasion” by the armed police.