Nandigram turns violent hours before Suvendu pays tributes to Nandigram martyrs

Nandigram turns violent hours before Suvendu pays tributes to Nandigram martyrs

‘Opportunists who promoted accused Nandigram cops have no right to seek votes’: Suvendu attacks TMC

Biswabrata Goswami

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NANDIGRAM, 14 MARCH: Nandigram turned violent hours before BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari paid his respect to the martyrs to mark the Nandigram Divas (Day) today. On this day, 14 people were killed in police firing while conducting anti-farm land acquisition movement in 2007 against the erstwhile Left Front government.

Supporters of both Trinamul Congress and BJP got involved in altercation between themselves over the rights to mark the Nandigram Day which later led to a clash between themselves at Bhangabera area in Nandigram this morning. At least five BJP workers were injured in the clash but the police and para-military forces intervened and brought the situation under control.

Later, Trinamul Congress MP Dibyendu Adhikari, brother of Suvendu reached there and paid his respect to the martyrs.

After a while, Suvendu Adhikari also reached at Nandigram and paid tributes to the martyrs. He paid floral tributes on the Sahid Bedi.

Suvendu Adhikari pays his tributes to Nandigram martyrs. Image courtesy: facebook

Before he reached the Nandigram, a group of Trinamul Congress workers tried to block roads on views to resist him from paying tributes to martyrs. They also put up posters at various places highlighting, “Suvendu is a traitor”. But, police and central forces intervened and displaced the protesters from the site.

Minutes after it, some BJP workers shouted “Go Back” slogans against Trinamul Congress leaders Bratya Bose, Purnendu Bose and Dola Sen when they reached at Sonachura to pay tributes to the Nandigram martyrs.   

After paying tributes to martyrs, Suvendu Adhikari launched a scathing attack at the ruling TMC, saying that the “opportunists” who have given promotions to the officers responsible for the 2007 Nandigram police firing have no right to seek votes from the people of the area as they have insulted the sacrifices made by the agitators.

Without naming his mentor-turned-adversary chief minister Mamata Banerjee, Adhikari said those who had forgotten Nandigram for 12 years are now coming here to seek votes.

“Fourteen people were martyred in police firing in 2007. I have been coming here every year since 2008 to pay tribute to the sacrifices made by the people of Nandigram.

“Whether it is an election season or not, it hardly matters to me, unlike the opportunists who are now coming to this place,” Adhikari said here.

“It is ironic that those who have given promotions to police officers responsible for the Nandigram massacre are now celebrating Nandigram Divas. The TMC has also inducted some of these police officers into their party after their retirement. Don’t cast a single vote in their favour who have betrayed and insulted you all,” he said.

Lauding the BJP’s role in the Nandigram movement, he said had the saffron party not raised the issue in the Parliament, it would have never grabbed the nation’s attention.

“The Nandigram movement would have never gained national importance had the BJP not raised it in the Parliament. The TMC managed to enter Nandigram during those days because the then leader of opposition in Lok Sabha, Lal Krishna Advani first entered the area after breaking through the barricades erected by the CPI (M),” he said.

“Some people may be ungrateful but I am not,” Adhikari, who joined the BJP during a rally of Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Midnapore in December last year, said.

The TMC observes March 14 as ‘Nandigram Divas’ to pay respect to the 14 people who were killed in police firing on this day during an anti-land acquisition stir in 2007.

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