Suvendu makes public Youth Congress police firing report; slams Mamata for not acting on it when she was CM
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has released a long-suppressed commission report regarding the 1993 police firing on Youth Congress supporters. He accused his predecessor, Mamata Banerjee, of failing to implement the report's recommendations or provide adequate compensation to victims' families.
Why it matters
The release of this report highlights ongoing political tensions and accountability issues regarding historical state violence in West Bengal.
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday (July 20, 2026) made public the report of Justice Susanta Chatterjee commission, which probed the police firing on July 21, 1993 which claimed the lives of 13 Youth Congress supporters.
The commission was set up by former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee after she came to power in 2011 and Mr. Adhikari said Ms. Banerjee neither implemented several key recommendations of the panel nor made its report public despite receiving it in 2014. Ms. Banerjee, a Youth Congress leader then, was also injured in the police action. The report was made public on the eve of Martyrs Day rally, when the rival factions of the Trinamool Congress will hold separate rallies in Kolkata.
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