Congress demands action against former Home Secretary over 1993 firing incident
The Congress party in West Bengal is demanding accountability from former Home Secretary Manish Gupta regarding a 1993 police firing incident. This follows the tabling of a long-suppressed inquiry commission report by the current Chief Minister, Suvendu Adhikari.
Why it matters
The incident highlights ongoing political tensions in West Bengal and the use of historical inquiry reports as tools for contemporary political leverage.
In its annual Martyrs’ Day observance on Tuesday (July 21, 2026), the Congress party demanded action against the former home secretary, Manish Gupta, for the 1993 police firing incident, who later became a minister in the Trinamool Congress government in 2011.
The development comes only a day after the Chief Minister, Suvendu Adhikari, tabled the fact-finding report of the incident prepared by an inquiry commission led by former Justice Sushanta Kumar Chatterjee. CM stated that the former CM, Mamata Banerjee, gained political benefit out of the incident but did not publish the report despite receiving it in 2014, only to save Mr. Gupta.
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