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During the three-hour convention, hundreds of students made speeches, sang songs and performed street plays.
Suman spoke at length on the “oppression” of tribals and sang amid loud applause from the assembled students. “I tried to voice my opposition against Operation Greenhunt a number of times. But in the Trinamool Congress, my voice was suppressed as the party is concentrating on the 2011 Assembly elections,” the singer-MP told the students.
Suman, who sent an SMS a few days ago to his party chief Mamata Banerjee saying he wanted to quit as MP, said he would continue to support the cause of the students and oppose police atrocities in tribal areas. The singer said he would be an ordinary citizen in the next seven days.
The parents of Abhishek Mukherjee, father Asesh and mother Lekha, pleaded that the state government at least inform them about the whereabouts of their son.
Jadavpur University students had earlier organised protest rallies after reports of Abhishek being killed in a police encounter. “We just want to know whether he is dead or alive and his whereabouts. The Maoists have said Abhishek was not their leader. So, why is the government maintaining a silence on this issue?” said Lokeshwari Dasgupta, a representative of United student Democratic Front, a pro-Naxal outfit at the JU.
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