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West Bengal Congress Files FIR Against Former Minister Over 1993 Police Firing Incident

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Kolkata, July 26 (IANS) The West Bengal unit of Congress has registered an FIR against Manish Gupta, a former West Bengal minister in the previous Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress regime and also a former bureaucrat in the Left Front regime in the state, over the infamous police firing in which 13 youth Congress workers died during a protest rally on July 21, 1993.Late Jyoti Basu was the Chief Minister of the state in 1993, and Gupta was the state Home Secretary when the police firing happ…

Trinamool Faction Announces Compensation for 1993 Youth Congress Victims

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Kolkata, July 21 (IANS) The “rebel but majority” faction in Trinamool Congress led by expelled legislator Ritabrata Banerjee on Tuesday announced Rs 10,000 monthly compensation for the families of the 13 Youth Congress workers killed in police firing on July 21, 1993, during the Left Front regime in West Bengal under the then Chief Minister Jyoti Basu. Announcing a Martyrs’ Day rally in Central Kolkata, Ritabrata said the compensation would be given if the faction is granted rights over th…

Former West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee’s Statement Missing from Commission Report

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Kolkata, July 20 (IANS) The statement of former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was not recorded in the report of the Justice Susanta Chatterjee (Retired) Commission, which the previous Trinamool Congress government constituted to probe the deaths of 13 Youth Congress workers in police firing during a protest rally on July 21, 1993, said Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari. CM Adhikari tabled the Justice Susanta Chatterjee (Retired) Commission report, which was not made public during the …

West Bengal CM to Release Report on 1993 Youth Congress Workers’ Deaths

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Kolkata, July 20 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday announced that he would make public later in the day the findings of the Justice Susanta Chatterjee Commission, constituted by the previous Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government to probe the deaths of 13 Youth Congress workers in police firing during a protest rally on July 21, 1993.The Chief Minister announced this while speaking in the Assembly on the opening day of the extended budget session.Incidentall…