Kolkata: Countering the CPI(M)'s allegation of her party's truck with the Maoists, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said the Maoists and the Marxists are both two sides of the same coin. "I think that the Marxists and the Maoists are both sides of the same coin. They are working together," Banerjee told newspersons here.
Alleging that the CPI(M) was running the government with
the help of the Maoists, she said there was no difference
between the violent activities of the Maoists and Marxists.
"If Maoists are to be banned, why not the CPI(M) which is also carrying out armed operations in the state?"
Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee had appealed to the Trinamool Congress yesterday to "severe links with the
rebels".
Describing Bhattacharjee as "both a Marxist and Maoist with a double face," Banerjee accused him of inaction in tracing the missing policemen Sabir Ali Molla and Kanchan
Gorai reportedly kidnapped by Maoists on July 30.
"The Union Home Minister had said that the Centre is willing to help in the search of these two policemen. I want
to know why they are not being looked for even after this.
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Does not the Chief Minister have the responsibility to look
for them?" she said.
She claimed the state government was using CPI(M) cadre
to carry out armed operations against opposition leaders and
workers. 69 Trinamool supporters have been killed by CPI(M)
activists over the past few months.
Banerjee said she had handed over evidence regarding the
killing of Trinamool men to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram.
She also gave a list of 14 Trinamool activists who
remained untraced in Nandigarm and its vicinity during the
anti-land acquisition campaign there. Banerjee said according
to locals, they had been killed by CPI(M) cadre and their
bodies thrown in the Haldi river.
The Railway Minister also accused the CPI(M) of amassing
huge sums of unaccounted money, and said this will come to
light once the Centre takes the move to unearth black money
stashed in Swiss banks.
Banerjee said the government was not "doing its duty" in
checking the spiralling price rise. "Potato is selling at Rs
30 a kilo. But farmers are not getting a fair price."
She said although the PDS is in the hand of the state
government, it was not doing anything to ensure supply of
essentials and thereby stabilise their prices.
‘We will show people real face of TC’
Alleging that Maoists and
Trinamool Congress are working together, West Bengal Chief
Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today asked Left Front
constituents to show the people the "real face" of Trinamool
Congress.
"The Maoists and the Trinamool Congress are working
hand in hand with each other in the state," Bhattacharjee said
addressing party workers at the district party office in Howrah.
"We will now have to show the people the real face of
Trinamool Congress," he said.
Admitting that the party had suffered defeat in last
by-elections, he said after a long analysis they have
identified the reason behind their loss.
Calling all the constituent parties of the Left Front
to stay united, he said "we may have some internal differences
with each other. But, we should stay united and restrict
ourselves from being political enemies to each other".
Bureau Report