Addressing a rally after visiting a school which shelters those rendered homeless by violence, Advani accused the Left front government in West Bengal and the UPA dispensation at the Centre of being responsible for the violence in Nandigram. He also charged the Centre with inaction and indifference to violence because it depended on the support of CPI(M).

Recalling his previous visit to Nandigram after the March 14 police firing and violence which left 14 people dead, Advani, leading a NDA delegation, said the police had fired then but "this time it was CPI-M goons who fired on the people.

"The people had been forthcoming then but now an atmosphere of terror prevails here. In my long political career, I have never come across this kind of terror," he said.

Advani, accompanied by party colleague Sushma Swaraj and other members of the delegation, visited Adhikaripara which had witnessed violence and met refugees at Nandigram school.

Most of the houses were deserted and not many people were seen on the roads when the NDA team went there travelling through Amgachi, Gokulnagar, Samsabad and Mahespur villages.