Click to play videoKolkata: Trinamool Congress has unleashed its campaign with fiery rally in Kolkata on Sunday. A chronology of violence revisited as victims of political violence - from Netai to Nandigram to Singur - came together lending support to Mamata's cry for justice.
They were compensated - TMC gave Rs one lakh each to the families of the dead and Rs 25000 to those injured at Netai.
TMC chief Mamata Banerjee said, "We demand justice for those killed in political violence perpetrated by the CPM."
A family lost nine of their own when armed CPM cadres allegedly gunned them down in Netai on January 7. If the rally was intended to garner more support ahead of the assembly polls, Mamata seems to have been quite successful.
One of the victim said, "Mamata Banerjee has done more than this Left Front government. They have been like father and mother to us."
Another victim said, "While we are grateful to Mamata for this, we are still living in fear."
Meanwhile, the ruling Left Front government is clearly on the back-foot after the High Court pulled up the state CID for a shoddy probe into the Netai carnage.
Just few weeks to go before the election dates are announced for Bengal and the political arena is heating up.
While the CPM brandishes its poll strategy of associating Mamata with Maoists, the TMC has unleashed a new brand of politics - the quest for justice for the hundreds who fell victim to murky politics of violence in Bengal.
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