Kolkata: A Trinamool Congress delegation of
senior leaders Partha Chatterjee and Mukul Roy on Friday visited
troubled Khanakul in West Bengal's Hooghly district and
demanded seizure of illegal arms from the CPI(M).
"There should be an immediate seizure of illegal arms from
CPI(M) cadre all over the state," Chatterjee, who is the
Leader of the Opposition, told a news agency.
The delegation, accompanied by Roy, Union Minister of
State for Shipping, visited Chanadravan village and met the
wife and parents of Ananta Doloi, claimed to be a supporter of
the party who died in yesterday's clashes.
The last rites of Doloi were performed in the presence
of Chatterjee and Roy.
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee had yesterday
demanded that a central team visit West Bengal and spoken to
Home Minister P Chidambaram, Finance Pranab Mukherjee and
Congress president Sonia Gandhi, while TC leader Sudip
Bandopadhyay raised the matter in the Lok Sabha.
The delegates also visited the five injured Trinamool
supporters in hospital, Chatterjee said, making a fresh
demand that Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee step down
following repeated electoral defeats suffered by his party
CPI(M).
PTI
First Published: Friday, November 27, 2009, 17:50