New Delhi: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Friday requested Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to visit Nandigram to check the ground reality and the effects of the police action on villagers.
"I am appealing to the Prime Minister to visit Nandigram to see the police atrocities and talk to the injured and their families," PTI quoted Banerjee as saying.
She also said that though the UPA government was taking the CPI-M's support, it should not remain silent after the barbaric attack on the villagers including scheduled castes and minorities.
She claimed that 300 persons had sustained bullet injuries and the state government was doing everything to suppress the enormity of the police brutality.
Banerjee said the Centre should intervene and impress on the state government the need to restore peace and democratic rights at Nandigram. "We want end to bloodshed and the state government's responsibility towards this is uppermost."
She also demanded that a Central team and an all-party delegation should pay a visit to Nandigram.
"Let us forget politics. All parties should visit Nandigram," she said, adding Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, L K Advani, will go to Nandigram on Saturday.
Accusing Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee of provoking the violence in Nandigram by his speech at a peasants rally here on March 11, Banerjee said he could not shirk his responsibility for what had happened. "He is a conspirator and a killer."
(With agency inputs)
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