Click to play videoNew Delhi: Fresh violence rocked Nandigram village on Thursday as police fired in the air and lobbed tear gas shells on relatives at a hospital where those injured in Wednesday's firing are being treated.
The police action started virtually minutes after West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee called Wednesday's violence unfortunate in the state Assembly.
Adding pressure on the Chief Minister, Calcutta High Court in a suo motu action has ordered a CBI inquiry into the police firing that claimed 14 lives so far.
After the hospital commotion, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Bannerjee was hospitalised when she complained of chest pain after allegedly being hit by a stone while on her way to areas affected by the violence.
"Mamata had to be admitted to Nandigram hospital after she complained of chest pain when she was hit by a stone on her way to Nandigram," a Trinamool Congress leader Anuradha Putatunda said.
Putatunda alleged that Mamta's convoy was repeatedly blocked and attacked by CPI-M supporters who have been picketing on all the roads towards Nandigram.
Demanding the Chief Minister’s resignation for "creating unrest" in West Bengal, Mamata said that she would continue the agitation against farmland acquisition in the state.
Meanwhile, a block development office in Nandigram was set on fire by Trinamool Congress workers.
Nandigram issue stalls Parliament
The Left parties found themselves cornered in Parliament on the killing of farmers in Nandigram in West Bengal as they faced a determined attack by the Opposition which stalled proceedings of both Houses demanding dismissal of the CPI-M-led state government.
Both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha saw several adjournments before calling it a day as the BJP-Shiv Sena in the Lower House and the saffron party and the Trinamool Congress in the Upper House created a furor targeting the Left.
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