The Calcutta High Court has laid down guidelines for Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari s visit to Netai village in order to pay homage to those who lost their lives in the 2011 Netai massacre.The.
Bengal Election Ground Report: Women of Naxalbari, 50 years apart
Women were at the forefront of the Naxalbari uprising against jotedars in 1967. Eight women, two children, and one man died in open firing by the police on May 25 that year. In April 2021, with Bengal days away from Phase 5 of the state Assembly elections, the women of Naxalbari are fighting a different battle.
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In 1967, the Naxalbari uprising against jotedars and zamindars claimed the lives of 8 women. The women of Naxalbari today are fighting a different battle, against a different set of jotedars and zamindars. Photo: Ananya Bhattacharya / India Today
Chief minister and MLA-aspirant from Nandigram Mamata Banerjee held a public outreach here on Tuesday evening, after a meeting with Trinamul workers, a day before she files her nomination papers in Haldia.
Nandigram, once the pivot of the anti-land acquisition movement that catapulted Mamata and her party to power in 2011, is now again the focus of this crucial Assembly elections, as Mamata takes on her trusted lieutenant-turned-bête noire Suvendu Adhikari of the BJP.
Mamata toured Nandigram for nearly four hours, paying visits to temples of sentimental value, at least two Shahid Bedis, sites of remembrance for those killed in the 2007 land agitations, and an Islamic shrine.
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