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Congress condemns Nandigram firing in West Bengal Assembly

KOLKATA: With legislators of the Trinamool Congress deciding to stay away from the House on Monday, it was the Congress that brought up in the West Bengal Assembly the issue of police firing and subsequent violence in Nandigram that had resulted in the death of 14 persons this day four years ago.

Alleging that many still remain untraced since the violence, Manas Bhunia, former leader of the Congress Legislature Party and now president of the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee, described the day as “one of mourning” and the victims of the violence as “martyrs”.

Dr. Bhunia accused the State Government of being “a government of killers that had resorted to reckless police firing at Nandigram” on that day.

Trinamool Congress MLAs chose to stay away from the House in protest against the incident.

Wearing black badges, they paid floral tributes to those killed in the Nandigram police firing at an improvised martyr's tomb set up in the lawns of the Assembly. A minute's silence was observed in memory of those who were killed.

The Trinamool Congress observed “Martyrs' Day” across the State. Leader of the Opposition, Partha Chatterjee and some of his party colleagues went to Nandigram on the occasion.

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