TMC criticises presence of Ritabrata at condolence meet

The Trinamool Congress today criticised the CPI(M) for the presence of SFI leader Ritabrata Banerjee at the condolence meeting for Sudipta Gupta, who died here in police custody, and reiterated its demand for his arrest.
"Courtesy demands that the accused is handed over to the police instead of allowing him to be present at a meeting here," Trinamool Congress secretary-general Partha Chatterjee said.
"CPI(M) does not seem to be ashamed of the misdeeds of SFI workers who attacked our chief minister and the finance minister in Delhi on April nine," Chatterjee said.
"It was a murderous assault on the chief minister and the finance minister which the people of the state will never forgive," he said.

He said despite FIR lodged with the Delhi police, none of the SFI attackers had been arrested.
Alleging that CPI(M) was a supporter of 'goonda raj' Chatterjee said that allowing an accused at a meeting here indicated that the CPI(M) had not learnt any lesson from the Delhi incident.
He said that four processions would be taken out on April 21 in the metropolis against the failure of the Delhi police to arrest the attackers.