CM Suvendu Adhikari at a Martyrs’ Day programme in Nandigram on Tuesday
“On Nov 10, 2007, there was a bloody sunrise.
Kolkata/Nandigram: CM Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday praised his CPM-regime predecessor, late Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, describing him as “a good man in a bad party”. But the party he belonged to is bad,” he said. I went to visit her,” he said. Mira has in the past expressed appreciation for Adhikari’s industrialisation push and said she believed he could realise some of her late husband’s unfinished development goals for the state. Adhikari said govt would act if the victims’ families sought fresh investigations, adding that cases would be reopened against several CPM netas, including Abhay Ghosh of Goghat, Tapan Ghosh and Sukur Ali of Garbeta and Himanshu Das of Khejuri. Invoking Bhattacharjee’s controversial “they have been paid back in their own coin” remark while recalling the events surrounding ‘Operation Suryadaya’, Adhikari said, “… those words he used on Nov 10… Biman Bose had said that a new sun had risen in Nandigram.”
I pay my respects to the then CM. I will not mention his name, he has passed away. He was very honest in his personal life. He was a very good person. The CM also described how cordial his relationship is with Buddhadeb’s widow Mira Bhattacharjee. “A few days ago, she fell ill.
Describing the alleged brutality, he said: “A total of 11 people were taken away with their hands tied behind their backs. At the CPM office, they were chopped into pieces. The next day, their bodies were packed into bags and dumped into the sea.”