Mamata Accuses Bhattacharjee of Rousing Communal Tension in WB

Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee has blamed chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee of rousing communal tension in the state with the help of police, said media reports.

Mamata Banerjee, who has pledged to end the Left rule in Bengal, said: “I have secret reports that he (Buddhadeb Bhattacharya) has involved the police to spread communal violence. He has instructed them to choose the Muslim pockets of Kolkata – like Rajabazar, Beniapukur, Park Circus, Garden Reach, Khidirpur – and spread riots,” Banerjee was quoted as saying.

The charges leveled by Mamata against the Left government during her campaign for the Kolkata Municipal polls sent shockwaves, reports said.

However, Bhattacharjee declined to take the allegations lying down, reports said.

Responding to the allegations, he warned that such charges could set a ‘dangerous trend’ in state’s politics, said reports.

“Never before in West Bengal communal riots were made an issue in election campaign. It’s a dangerous trend. Language and mannerisms of the criminal world is being imported in politics,” Bhattacharjee was quoted as saying.

The chief minister tried to cash-in on the failure of the seat sharing talks between the Trinamool Congress and the Congress party and also to widen the rift between the two parties saying that Mamata Banerjee’s party was prone to political violence, reports said.

“Even the Congress is forced to oppose the Trinamool because that party, violence-prone and devoid of program as it is, has now resorted to dangerous campaigns,” Bhattacharjee was quoted as saying.

(Based on internet reports)