What Dr Ranen Sen, CPI MP in the 1970s told me is corroborated by Mr Ranjan Chowdhury's posting. In 1971,during the monsoon, the Seventh Fleet of US Navy started moving towards the Bay of Bengal. Dr Sen, Priyaranjan Dasmunshi, Ganesh Ghosh and a few MPs called on Indira Gandhi with a highly tensed-up psyche. " Do something madam, ports like Vizag and Chittagong will fall like a house of cards". IG calmly replied, " I know my Bengal friends. They are as emotional as revolutionary". Wait. The Army will enter after the monsoon when the earth structure will be consolidated. Say first week of November - 3rd or 4th. Don't get unnerved. The Seventh Fleet will not find it very easy". We came back but with worries.
" Next day, we heard that the Soviet fleet was moving in to counter. The Chinese plan too was foisted as the Soviet Army slapped a lesson for the Peoples Liberation Army of China when it tried to push through Vladivostok."
Indian Army moved in on 3 Nov.
By the way, Seventh Fleet was named "Independence". Bantering it, communist columnist Niranjan Sengupta - Nafar Kundu (pseudontm) - wrote ' " Barbonitar nam potibrota" ( The harlot's name is fidelity).
Sam, I wrote before too, sent a message to Jawans to honour women ( so that they dared not rape/molest anyone). WHENEVER YOU MEET A BEGUM, THINK OF SAM AND PUT YOUR HANDS INTO YOUR POCKET.
He had a black spot. Using his stature, he tried to save the officials of Tata Tea Limited who were financing the ULFA militants. Indian Express carried the conversation (tape).
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