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Saturday, August 09, 2008 (01:27:35) |
| Tags : Trinamool Congress, Mamata Banerjee, BUPC, CPI(M), |
I am not informed about all party meeting: Mamata |
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Kolkata: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee said that she had not been informed about an all-party meeting called today by West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee over the fresh turmoil in Nandigram.
"Neither me nor my party was officially informed about the all-party meeting," Banerjee told in a press conference in the city on Friday. On Thursday, Chief Minster Bhattacharjee called an all-party meeting in East Midnapore's Tamluk town today to look into the outbreak of violence in Nandigram.
Tension simmered in Nandigram, about 150 kilometers from the city, after a CPI(M) supporter, Dulal Garu Das, was allegedly gunned down by the rival anti-land acquisition group Bhumi Uchched Pratirodh (BUPC) activists at Chadalpur area during a 24-hour shutdown called by the ruling CPI(M).
A CPI(M) leader, Niranjan Mondal, was shot dead on Wednesday (on August 6) at Rajaramchak area of Nandigram. The party blamed the Trinamool Congress-backed anti-land acquisition group BUPC for the killing.
At least 40 people were killed in Nandigram since January 2007 when the region erupted in protest over proposed land acquisition for a special economic zone (SEZ) in collaboration with Indonesia's 'Salim' group for developing a chemical hub.
Since then a turf battle between the CPI(M) and the BUPC members had broken out repeatedly in the violence-hit region. (IANS) |
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