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The Trinamool Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) connected Monday (November 10, 2025) competed to wage tributes to Shaheed Diwas to radical who were killed successful a firing incidental successful Nandigram successful 2007.
Violence had erupted successful Nandigram successful West Bengal’s Purba Medinipur territory successful 2007 amidst terrible nationalist protests against forcible onshore acquisition for a petrochemical task being taken up by the erstwhile Left-Front government.
On Monday (November 10), the Trinamool and BJP carried retired tribute programmes astatine Nandigram’s Shaheed Bedi — the memorial constructed successful representation of those who died connected November 10. Leader of Opposition of West Bengal Assembly and BJP MLA from Nandigram, Suvendu Adhikari, offered his tributes, portion soon after, a delegation of Trinamool Congress comprising Minister Snehasis Chakraborty and section enactment paid homage astatine the memorial.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee took to X to wage her tributes connected the juncture of Nandigram Shaheed Diwas, penning ‘Bhulte pari nijer naam, bhulbo nako Nandigram,’ (I whitethorn hide my ain name, but I volition ne'er hide Nandigram).
However, Mr. Adhikari portion addressing presspersons astatine Nandigram today, said that helium ‘made a mistake’ supporting Ms Banerjee’s ascent to powerfulness successful 2011.
“I person ever said precise intelligibly — existent parivartan (change) did not hap successful 2011. We made a mistake successful supporting a dynastic, corrupt, vindictive leader. We had a manus successful her getting elected arsenic Chief Minister. We admit we made a mistake. [The BJP] volition bring successful existent alteration with the people,” the LoP said.
Notably, Mr. Adhikari was 1 of the astir salient faces of the question against onshore acquisition astatine Nandigram astatine the clip and a heavyweight person of the Trinamool. The Trinamool came to powerfulness a fewer years aft the Nandigram violence, with enactment supremo Mamata Banerjee emerging arsenic West Bengal’s Chief Minister successful 2011 with promises of ‘parivartan’ (change) from the 34-year-long Left regime.
In the Assembly polls of 2021, the incumbent Mr. Adhikari won the Assembly spot astatine Nandigram for the archetypal clip nether the banner of the BJP, against Trinamool supremo and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee successful a high-voltage electoral contention betwixt 2 erstwhile enactment colleagues.
On Monday (November 10), the BJP MLA besides accused the Chief Minister of depriving the ‘shahid’ (martyr) families of Nandigram of pending compensation benefits allegedly connected grounds of attending Mr Adhikari’s BJP rallies successful 2021.
“In 2021, aft a rally astatine Nandigram wherever [Mamata Banerjee] announced she would beryllium contesting from there, the District Magistrate disbursed the payments to the families. But due to the fact that 4 of them did not be Mamata’s rally that time and came with me, they didn’t get compensation,” helium alleged.
Meanwhile, Trinamool leaders besides launched verbal attacks astatine the BJP, with Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee taking to societal media taking jabs astatine the ‘zamindars of Delhi’.
“The look of the oppressor has lone changed, the oppression remains the same… Where erstwhile the Left Front relied connected covert, “SCIENTIFIC RIGGING” the contiguous authorities resorts to SILENT INVISIBLE RIGGING. Bengal taught the Left Front a acquisition it volition ne'er forget, contiguous we nonstop the aforesaid connection to the zamindars of Delhi. Bengal volition resist, relentlessly and resolutely,” Mr. Banerjee said successful his societal media tribute connected the juncture of Nandigram Shaheed Diwas.
