Trinamool Congress chief Mamta Banerjee on Friday asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to visit Nandigram to see for himself the police action on villagers and said the Centre should not remain silent after the "genocide" there.
"I am appealing to the prime minister to visit Nandigram to see the police atrocities and to talk to the injured and their families," Banerjee told reporters in Kolkata.
She said that though the Central government was taking the Communist Party of India-Marxist's support, it should not remain silent after the "barbaric attack on villagers including scheduled castes and minorities."
Pointing out that Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Lal Kishenchand Advani will go to Nandigram on Saturday, Banerjee demanded that a Central team and an all-party delegation should also pay a visit there.
"Let us forget politics. All parties should visit Nandigram," she said.
Banerjee welcomed the critical stand taken by Left Front partners like the Communist Party of India, Forward Bloc and Revolutionary Socialist Party on the police action.