Central team should look at situation in WB impartially: CPI-M
Kolkata: With Trinamool Congress chief
and Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee asking the Centre to send
a team to West Bengal, the CPI-M on Saturday said that it could
visit the state, but any demand for President's Rule was
against 'basic democratic principles'.
"Everybody knows who is trying to destabilise the
situation in the state. Let a Central team come, but they
should look at the situation objectively and impartially. They
will understand," CPI-M general secretary Prakash Karat, who
was here to attend party's state secretariat meeting, told
reporters.
On the Trinamool Congress' demand for imposition of
President's Rule in the state, Karat said, "It goes against
basic democratic principles. The Supreme Court has again and
again said that the use of Article 356 against an elected
government is unconstitutional."
CPI(M) parliamentary party leader in the Lok Sabha
Basudeb Acharya had yesterday described TC's demand for a
visit by a Central team to the state as 'uncalled for'.
Alleging that Trinamool Congress, in league with
Maoists, was responsible for anarchy in the state, Acharya
had said that the demand was a move to create a situation so
that President's Rule could be imposed.
The CPI-M state secretariat meeting would be followed
by a two-day state committee meeting beginning tomorrow. The
meeting is likely to discuss the prevailing situation in the
state and matters related to party organisation.
PTI