Trinamul Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee today paid homage to nine workers, who were brutally killed by the CPI-M goons at Netai in 2011.
The workers were killed on 7 January, 2011.
Trinamul Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee also paid homage to the martyrs.
The CPI-M goons killed four women and five men. The women who were killed included Saraswati Ghorui, Fulkumari Maity, Mitali Adak and Arati Mondol. The five men killed in the incident were Shyamananda Ghorui, Dhiren Sen, Sourav Ghorui, Arup Patra and Guruprasad Goswami.
The goons allegedly, backed by the CPI-M, took out the victims from their residence and killed them in broad daylight. They were all workers of Trinamul Congress.
Miss Banerjee launched a state-wide movement. She went to the districts demanding stringent punishment of the culprits.
Netai marked the beginning of the CPI-M end in Bengal.
The CPI-M started losing ground from 2008 when Trinamul Congress got control over two zilla parishads in East Midnapore and South 24-Parganas. In 2009, Trinamul Congress won 18 seats in the Lok Sabha election. In 2010, the party won the Kolkata Municipal Corporation election and finally put an end to the CPI-M rule in the 2011 Assembly election.
The party collapsed after 2011 and in the 2021 Assembly election, the Left Front failed to fetch even a single seat. The party has only one Rajya Sabha MP from Bengal. For survival, the CPI-M entered into a political alliance with its arch rival Congress before the 2016 Assembly election. But the political alliance did not work. The CPI-M even failed to win one seat in the by elections which were held after 2011.