By IANS
Kolkata : Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Sunday alleged that Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) members were fuelling fresh violence in troubled Nandigram in West Bengal after their victory in the municipal polls in neighbouring Haldia.
"For the last three days the situation was flaring up. The CPI-M party workers are constantly hurling crude bombs and firing at Bhumi Uchched Pratirodh Committee (BUPC) members of Nandigram," Banerjee alleged.
Fresh violence broke out in Nandigram Sunday at a market area over processions taken out by the BUPC and West Bengal's ruling CPI-M.
The CPI-M procession was to celebrate its victory in municipal polls in Haldia, an industrial town where the communists are planning to relocate the chemical hub that was originally planned in Nandigram triggering the saga of violence and killings.
"Two BUPC members – Manoranjan Pradhan and Bablu Khatua – were admitted in a hospital with bullet injuries," Banerjee told a press conference at her south Kolkata residence.
Protesting the "state-sponsored violence" in the trouble-torn East Midnapore constituency, the Trinamool chief said BUPC has called for a 12-hour shutdown Monday to lodge a strong protest.
Demanding the state government's resignation for its "failure" in Nandigram, she said no family member of the victims of the March 14 police firing had so far received compensation from the government.
"The people of Nandigram have not got due justice. They neither received any moral support from the state government nor did they get any help in terms of medicine or other things even after the March 14 massacre," she said.
At least 22 people have been killed, hundreds injured and several raped in Nandigram in protests since January against the special economic zone (SEZ) and a chemical hub planned there in collaboration with Indonesia's Salim Group.
Following the violence, the state government scrapped the SEZ plan but thousands of people belonging to both the CPI-M and BUPC have been living in camps.
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