Balpai Rebuilt From the ashes of teh old rises a new Library Haldia Petrochem Problems resolved, ready to Commision Nazrul Nazrul, Birth Anniversory celebrated Relocation strategy For Poluting Industries in CMC Area

It was the night of 31st October, 1998. The marauding hordes of the Trinamul Congress, enraged by the success of the CPI (M) in the panchayat election destroyed the Balpai general library in Khanakul area in Hooghly district setting it afire unnoticed in the darkness. They could not reconcile themselves to their defeat in the Balpai-Daulatchak area in panchayat election where they lost all the 7 seats to the CPI (M). They however won 5 seats in the adjoining Natibpur area. Like the Nazis they turned fire on the Balpai Library for they felt that the library with its tradition of rousing the local people's consciousness should have to be set ablaze. What was the library doing? The library with a membership of 800 and about 5000 titles magazines, newspapers was the nerve centre of all intellectual activity in the area. So it had to be obliterated from the face of the earth. They did it. Did the Nazis succeed in the end? Everyone knows the answer.