'Many have not received compensation'

NANDIGRAM: Many of the next of kin of the last year's March 14 police firing in Nandigram were yet to receive compensation from the West Bengal government, the Trinamool Congress claimed no Saturday.

"Families of many victims have not received compensation. Many who are missing cannot be traced and many bodies are yet to be found," TC chief Mamata Banerjee, visiting Nandigram for the first time after her party's sweep in the recent panchayat election, said.

CPI-M was still "terrorising" people with the help of the state administration in Nandigram after the panchayat poll and TC supporters could not return to their homes in places like Satengabari and Sonachura, she told a public meeting.

Demanding that this should stop, she said her party did not believe in violence. "Our partymen have not taken out processions after our victory in East Midnapore in the panchayat poll."

Banerjee said TC which had swept the poll in East Midnapore and captured the zilla parishad from the Left Front, would have won all the seats if the ruling party had not used force in some areas.

Many, she said, had sacrificed their lives in Nandigram in the face of 'state sponsored terror'.