‘Opportunists’ who promote officers responsible for Nandigram police firing have no right to seek votes: Suvendu

BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari attacked the ruling TMC on Sunday, saying that “opportunists” who promoted officers responsible for the 2007 Nandigram police shootout have no right to seek votes from the people of the area as they have been insulted by the agitators. The sacrifices made.

Without naming his mentor, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Mr. Adhikari said that those who had forgotten Nandigram for 12 years are now coming here to seek votes.

Ms. Banerjee has left her Bhawanipore constituency in Kolkata to fight her former lieutenant and BJP candidate officer in Nandigram, where her party was brought to power in 2011 by the anti-land acquisition movement.

“Fourteen people were killed 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 election season or not, it hardly matters to me, who are coming to this place now,” the official said here.

“It is ironic that those who have promoted the police officers responsible for the Nandigram massacre are now celebrating Nandaram Day. TMC has also added some of these police officers to their party after retirement.

He said do not cast a single vote in his favor who has cheated and insulted all of you.

Emphasizing the role of BJP in the Nandigram movement, he said that the saffron party did not raise the issue in Parliament, it never caught the attention of the nation.

“The Nandigram movement would never have achieved national prominence. The BJP did not raise it in Parliament. TMC was successful in entering Nandigram in those days as the then Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Lal Krishna Advani, first entered the region. The barricades were planted by the CPI (M), “he said.

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

TMC celebrated March 14 as ‘Nandigram Day’, to pay respect to the 14 people who were killed in police firing on this day during the anti-land acquisition in 2007.