Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress on Thursday rubbished Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPI-M)’s demand for an enquiry into the role of Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee in the hijack of Rajdhani Express on October 27.
“CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury has cast aspersions on the Railway Minister’s integrity though her utmost priority was to save the lives of the passengers and she could not afford to take any extreme step at that moment of crisis,” Trinamool leader Partha Chatterjee told PTI.
“It is madness on the part of CPI-M leaders to demand a probe against her role during the crisis,” he said.
“Trinamool Congress has no connection with Maoists. Time and again Mamata Banerjee has said that she was against killing of individuals, violence and use of arms. She believes in non-violence,” Chatterjee emphasised.
He pointed out that she had adopted the Gandhian method of going on fast in the past for the cause of the farmers of Singur for 25 days.
Chatterjee said that rather than pointing fingers at Mamata the CPI-M should ask for a probe into the alleged illegal stock-piling of arms by its cadres for use against Opposition parties in the state.
“People should know why the ruling party was in dilemma to ban the Maoists in West Bengal when several other state governments had done so,” he said.
Meanwhile, General Secretary of Forward Bloc Ashok Ghosh said, “The Prime Minister has tried to shield his cabinet colleague on Mamata’s utterances that there were no Maoists in the state.”
He, however, said that the Left Front government had failed to speed up development in tribal areas in West Midnapore district and adjoining areas.
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