West Bengal police’s criminal investigation department (CID) claimed on Friday to have received evidence against Trinamool Congress MP Subhendu Adhikari of supplying arms and ammunition to Maoists for countering CPI(M) during the Nandigram violence in 2007 which claimed over 70 lives.
Tamluk MP Subhendu is the son of MoS for rural development Sisir Adhikari, who led the land movement in Nandigram.
The CID report submitted to the state home department said that during the Nandigram movement, Subhendu took the help of Maoists to counter CPI(M) activists in the region and in return supplied over 1,000 rounds of ammunition to the guerillas.
The report also claimed that they recently arrested Madhusudan Mondal, the Maoist zonal committee secretary at Nandigram, who confessed that Subhendu had supplied arms to the rebels.
As per the report, Mondal also confessed that Maoists had set up base in Nandigram only after March 2007. As active supporters of the Trinamool-led Bhumi Ucched Pratirodh Committee (Land Eviction Resistance Committee), the rebels trained the committee activists on how to use arms.
Subhendu, however, called the report baseless. “It is a deliberate attempt to malign me and the image of my party. Our movement was always peaceful and hence only our activists were killed,” he said.
Not very long ago, there was ruckus in parliament following a news report that Sisir Adhikari had given money to a Bangladeshi arms dealer to supply arms to BUPC activists to fight CPI(M) cadres. Adhikari had denied the charge.
