Kolkata, July 21 -- Hours ahead of her address in an open rally in the heart of the city, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who is also the TMC chairperson, today paid glowing tributes to 13 "martyrs" to mark 'Shahid Divas' , a flagship annual political programme of the ruling party.
"I pay my tributes to my fellow 13 fighters who laid down their lives in the face of CPI(M) police's brutality, who opened indiscriminate firing on them on July 21,1993," Banerjee said on her X handle.
"Bandhan Das, Murari chakraborty, Ratan Mondal, Bioswanath Roy, Kalyan Banerjee, Ashim Das, Keshab Bairagi, Sreekanta Sharma, Dilip Das, Ranjit Das, Pradip Roy, Md Khalek and Inu became the martyrs in the police firing," as they had taken part in the...