'Worse than Jallianwala Bagh,' Says Bengal Report on Firing on Mamata Led Rally in 1993 The recent report by the Sushanta Chatterjee Commission, tabled in the West Bengal assembly by Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, sheds new light on one of the state's most infamous incidents: the police firing on a Mamata Banerjee led Youth Congress rally in 1993.
The commission's scathing indictment of the then LF government and its administrative apparatus is a stark reminder of Indian democracy's dark underbelly. The commission's findings are devastating.
It concluded that the firing was "worse than the Jallianwala Bagh massacre" and held several IPS officers, including former Kolkata Police Commissioner Tushar Talukdar, jointly and severally liable for the violence.