West Bengal Governor
M K Narayanan has strongly
condemned the "attack" on Chief
Minister Mamata Banerjee and
her ministers in Delhi last
evening, calling it a "premeditated
assault" and "blot on India's
cherished democratic values". Mr
Narayanan has also demanded
that the CPI(M) should apologise
for the attack.
Ms Banerjee was heckled by Left
student activists at the Planning
Commission in Delhi. The activists,
members of the Students
Federation of India or SFI, also
attacked Ms Banerjee's Finance
Minister Amit Mitra, who is
currently in hospital. The
demonstrators were protesting
against the death of a Left student
activist in police custody. (They
tried to hit me with iron rod:
Mamata Banerjee)
In a statement released today, Mr
Narayanan said, "The shocking
premeditated assault on the chief
minister, the finance minister and
other ministers of west Bengal in
the national capital yesterday is
an extremely unfortunate incident
and a blot on India's cherished
democratic values."
