CPI(M) would have to go from Bengal: Sushma

NANDIGRAM: With the UPA government rejecting NDA's demand for an all-party parliamentary delegation to Nandigram, the BJP said on Saturday it would continue to raise the Nandigram issue in Parliament.

"We will rake up the Nandigram issue continuously in the Lok Sabha till people get justice," BJP MP Sushma Swaraj who was here as part of a 10-member NDA delegation told reporters.

CPI(M) would have to go from West Bengal following Wednesday's police firing, she said.

"When the king tortures his own people then it is the end of his rule," she said and raised slogans against the CPI-M and Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee.

The NDA delegation also visited Sonachura and Mahespur villages of Nandigram. Trinamool Congress MPs Mukul Roy and Dinesh Trivedi accompanied them.

Fernandes promises to take up Nandigram issue at right forum

Accusing the CPI-M government in West Bengal of torturing farmers, NDA Convenor George Fernandes on Saturday promised the villagers of Nandigram that he would take up their issues at an appropriate forum.

"We saw women weeping. What has happened at Nandigram beggars description. I promise the issue will be taken up at an appropriate forum," a visibly moved Fernandes told reporters after talking to affected people at Sonachura, one of the villages where the police fired on Wednesday.

Fernandes,  part of the 10-member delegation, said "the Centre has always indulged the CPI-M. Now you can see how they have been torturing the poor and the
peasants."