Trinamool will not return to power in the next 100 years, claims Suvendu

West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari. File. | Photo Credit: PTI Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday (November 10, 2026) asserted that the Trinamool Congress has been politically wiped out in West Bengal and will not return to power in the next 100 years.“Jora Phool and Ghas Phool (referring to the symbol of the Trinamool Congress, which has been frozen by the Election Commission of India), both have been uprooted. You will not see the Trinamool Congress again, not even in the next 100 years,” the Chief Minister said, addressing a gathering in Nandigram.Mr. Adhikari made these remarks while participating in an event marking the 19th anniversary of ‘Operation Suryoday’, when clashes broke out between supporters of the Trinamool Congress-led Bhumi Uched Pratirodh Committee (BUPC) and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on November 10, 2007.After locals resisted an announcement of land acquisition in 2007, Nandigram witnessed months of violent clashes between CPI(M) supporters and the BUPC, led by the Trinamool Congress.Mr. Adhikari, who was a Trinamool leader at the time, was at the forefront of the agitation.“On November 10, 2007, Nandigram was drenched in blood. All of West Bengal and the entire world were horrified by the bloodshed, terror and horror they witnessed that day. That memory remains vivid in the minds of all West Bengalis to this day,” Mr. Adhikari wrote on social media.Speaking to his supporters in Nandigram, the Chief Minister asserted that the Trinamool Congress had no role in the land movement.“The fight was between the people of Nandigram and the then Left government,” he said, adding that people who were responsible for the violence have not been tried.On November 10, 2007, the BUPC took out a procession from Sonachura in Nandigram, Purba Medinipur district, when those participating in the protest were allegedly attacked by Communist Party of India (Marxist) cadres.The Chief Minister spoke about the violence and claimed that “11 people were taken away... they were cut into pieces at the CPI(M) office. The next day, they were put in bags and thrown into the middle of the ocean”.Mr. Adhikari said that victims of the Nandigram violence did not get justice and added that Laxman Seth, a former CPI(M) MP, was jailed for 181 days. However, his trial was not concluded. The Chief Minister said that his government will reopen cases relating to the Nandigram violence.“I will reopen the crime files committed during the Left Front era in Nandigram and Chhoto Angaria. I will reopen the cases of those who went from the CPI(M) office in Garbeta with guns to create the bloody sunrise in Nandigram in 2007,” the Chief Minister said.Mr. Adhikari referred to a remark made in 2007 by former Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee after the violence, when he had said, “They have been paid (back) in their own coin.”The Chief Minister said that the remark by his predecessor was in bad taste.“In his personal life, he was honest (referring to Mr. Bhattacharjee). The party was bad. I will not make a personal attack today. But that English speech on the 10th, the ‘V’ sign shown by many; Biman Basu said that a new sun has risen in Nandigram,” the Chief Minister recalled.He said that for the past 19 years, he has been steadfast in his commitment to the people of Nandigram who were at the receiving end of the violence. Published - November 10, 2026 08:30 pm IST