Mamata’s swearing-in: Singur, Netai victims’ kin invited
May 19th, 2011 - 10:14 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) Relatives of the victims of Singur, Nandigram and Netai incidents have been invited to Mamata Banerjee’s oath-taking as the next chief minister of West Bengal Friday at the Raj Bhavan premises, party leaders said Thursday.
“Yes, it is true that family members and relatives of Singur, Nandigram and Netai victims have been invited to take part in the oath taking ceremony at Raj Bhavan premises,” Trinamool Congress leader and Union Minister of State for Rural Development Sisir Adhikari told IANS.
Singur and Nandigram - synonymous with intense peasant protests against the acquisition of farmlands - have earned the credit for changing the poll scripts of the state.
Family members of Singur resident Tapasi Malik, who was raped and killed by alleged local Left leaders during the heydays of anti-land acquisition movements, have been invited to the oath-taking ceremony. Singur is situated in Hoogly district.
The kin of the 14 people who died in the police firing in Nandigram in 2007 and others who died during the 10-month long agitation against the land acquisition in Nandigram have also been invited to the ceremony May 20. Nandigram is situated in East Midnapore district.
Invitation has also been sent out to the family members of those nine victims who were killed by alleged CPI-M goons in the Netai village of West Midnapore district earlier this year.
“Thirty-one people from Nandigram who are relatives of the martyrs, nine people from Netai who are kins of those nine people who were killed, and family members of Tapasi Malik have been invited to the ceremony. We will escort them from the village to the venue,” said Adhikari.
The Trinamool Congress has also invited at least one representative each from all the working class sections of society, which includes rickshaw-pullers, farmers, slum-dwellers and representative organisations of sex workers and the disabled.
“I have heard that Didi (Mamata Banerjee) has decided to invite at least one representative from the section of rickshaw-pullers and farmers,” said newly-elected party legislator Becharam Manna.
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