Nandigram (WB), November 17: Two years after the turmoil and violence in Nandigram in East Midnapore where police firing left 14 dead, the pain and suffering lingers across the political divide.
The violence which erupted in January 2007 over fear of land acquisition for a chemical hub in this hitherto little known corner of West Bengal continued till November that year.
Residents turned the area into a no-man’s with roads dug up and the police unable to enter with the issue rocking Parliament.
“Several people who were injured then can still be found in each village in Nandigram. They have not yet fully recovered,” Trinamool Congress legislator Firoza Bibi, whose son was among the 14 victims of the 14 March, 2007 police firing, told a visiting PTI correspondent.
CPI-M’s Nandigram Zonal Committee, Secretary Ashok Guria, has the same tale to tell.
–PTI