No Maoists in WB, Scores of CPM Camps Unleashed Violence: Mamata

Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee has said that there are no Maoists in West Bengal but scores of camps of ruling CPM party which have unleashed violence across the state, said media reports.

Speaking to reporters in Kolkata, Banerjee claimed that CPM has nearly 200 camps, which unleashed violence across the state, reports said.

She criticized Operation Green Hunt, saying that it was being carried out to suppress or kill rural folk in the area, said reports.

“The operation is being carried out in the name of a joint operation. There are no Maoists in this region. There are 200 camps of the CPI-M operating in the area. Why would the CPI-M be involved in a government operation? Government operation is administrative operation. I have doubts about the operation itself,” she was quoted as saying.

Accusing chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee of misusing his powers under the Constitution, she demanded his arrest, reports said.

“Why should not any action be taken against him because of his politics of individual killings and mass murder? I feel it is my social responsibility to say so,” she was quoted as saying.

(Based on internet reports)