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Kolkata, Nov 10 (IANS) The people of West Bengal will teach the BJP a lesson just like they taught the CPI(M)-led Left Front in the state in 2011, the Trinamool Congress general secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member remarked on Monday, marking the 18th anniversary of the massacre in Nandigram in East Midnapore district, in which 14 people were killed in police firing on the same day in 2007.
However, instead of directly naming the BJP, Banerjee described the saffron camp as the “landlords of Delhi”.
“Bengal taught the Left Front a lesson it will never forget. Today, we send the same message to the landlords of Delhi. Bengal will protest consistently and strongly. We will crush their egos at the ballot box and throw this politics of exclusion into the dustbin of history,” Banerjee said in a social media post on Monday afternoon.
Sharply criticizing the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) run by the Election Commission of India (ECI) in West Bengal, Banerjee described the revision exercise as “silent invisible rigging”.
He also said that the BJP’s “silent invisible rigging” is the new face of the Left Front’s “scientific rigging” in West Bengal before 2011.
“On this fateful day in 2007, the brave people of Nandigram rose up against the barbaric attempt by the then Left Front government to snatch away their land, dignity and right to live with dignity. Only the face of the oppressor has changed; the oppressor remains the same. Yesterday’s ‘Harmads’ have returned as today’s ‘Executioners’. Where once the Left Front relied on secret, “scientific rigging”, the present regime resorts to silence It is invisible manipulation,” Banerjee said in her social media post.
Recall that in 2007, there was a movement against the land acquisition proposed by the previous Left Front government to set up a chemical center in Nandigram. The protesters, mainly led by the Trinamool Congress and reportedly supported by Maoists, completely isolated Nandigram from the rest of the state by cutting off all roads.
On this day in 2007, a large contingent of police finally reached Nandigram to free the area from protesters. There were fierce clashes between the protesters and the police and ultimately 14 people were killed in police firing.
The tragedy is believed to have played a key role in the fall of the 24-year-old Left Front rule and the beginning of the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress rule in 2011.
–IANS
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