Five commandos belonging to an elite unit of the Indian Army were martyred over the weekend along the Line of Control in Kashmir after an intense close-quarter fight with an equal number of Islamic terrorists who had infiltrated into India.
On 4th August 2005, when Banerjee was in the Opposition and the state was under communist rule, she held very different views on the issue. She had thrown papers at the deputy speaker and had raised the issue of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants obtaining voter id cards in her state.