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In 1997, due to difference in political views with the then West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee president Somendra Nath Mitra, Banerjee left the [[Congress Party]] in [[West Bengal]] and became one of the founding members of the [[All India Trinamool Congress]], along with Mukul Roy.<ref>https://frontline.thehindu.com/other/article30217647.ece</ref> It quickly became the primary opposition party to the long-standing Communist government in the state.On 11 December 1998, she controversially held a Samajwadi Party MP, Daroga Prasad Saroj, by the collar and dragged him out of the well of the Lok Sabha to prevent him from protesting against the Women's Reservation Bill.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20110424085700/http://www.hinduonnet.com/revents/01/19980112.htm</ref> | In 1997, due to difference in political views with the then West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee president Somendra Nath Mitra, Banerjee left the [[Congress Party]] in [[West Bengal]] and became one of the founding members of the [[All India Trinamool Congress]], along with Mukul Roy.<ref>https://frontline.thehindu.com/other/article30217647.ece</ref> It quickly became the primary opposition party to the long-standing Communist government in the state.On 11 December 1998, she controversially held a Samajwadi Party MP, Daroga Prasad Saroj, by the collar and dragged him out of the well of the Lok Sabha to prevent him from protesting against the Women's Reservation Bill.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20110424085700/http://www.hinduonnet.com/revents/01/19980112.htm</ref> | ||
===Nandigram protest=== | |||
The Nandigram violence was an incident in Nandigram, West Bengal occurred in 2007 where a battalion of armed police stormed the rural area in the district of Purba Medinipur with the aim of quashing protests against the West Bengal government's plans to expropriate 10,000 acres (40 km2) of land for a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) to be developed by the Indonesian-based Salim Group. At least 14 villagers were shot dead and 70 more were wounded. This led to a large number of intellectuals to protest on the streets.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120217023009/http://news.oneindia.in/2007/11/30/nandigram-peoples-struggle-heroic--clark-1196438590.html</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20090706032521/http://www.iacboston.org/india/1207-nandigram-says-no.html</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20080416093108/http://www.indianexpress.com/story/246969.html</ref> | |||
Banerjee wrote letters to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil to stop what she called "state sponsored violence" promoted by CPI(M) in Nandigram. Her political activism during the movement is widely believed to be one of the contributing causes to her landslide victory in 2011. | |||
The CBI report on the incident clearly vindicated CPI(M)'s stand that Buddhadeb did not order the police to open fire. They did so only to disperse the unlawful assembly after every other standard operating procedure had failed.<ref>https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Nandigram-firing-Full-text-of-CBIs-Nandigram-chargesheet/articleshow/29665581.cms</ref> | |||
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