West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday announced that he would reopen cases related to the 2001 Chhoto Angaria massacre and the 2007 Nandigram firing, which together left around 19 people dead.
Adhikari is not eligible enough to understand this. That’s why he is directing the police that he wants Ghosh to see in jail. If he has the guts let him send them (CPI(M) leaders) to jail.”
“I would reopen the cases against those involved in Chhoto Angaria (massacre) in 2001 and the ones who went to Nandigram to carry out a bloody Suryoday (Sunshine) after collecting firearms from the CPIM’s party office at Garhbeta in West Midnapore.
Not a single accused will be spared,” he said , while addressing a BJP rally at Garhbeta. Reacting to Adhikari, CPI(M) leader Sujan Chakraborty said: “Communist leaders are made of different material. Like his predecessor, Adhikari too wants the police to act according to his whimsies and not follow the law.
Adhikari was then an AITC leader. Adhikari also asked the West Midnapore SP to track down former CPI(M) leader Tapan Ghosh. Also Read I Bengal minister alleges ‘large-scale fraud’ in health scheme under Mamata Banerjee’s TMC regime
At least five All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) supporters were killed, allegedly by CPI(M) cadres inside a house at Chhoto Angaria on January 4, 2001.
“I want to see him in the jail,” he said.
