New Delhi, 08-12-2009: The CPM on Tuesday accused the Trinamool Congress of submitting ‘false’ list of its workers allegedly killed by the Left activists in West Bengal to the Prime Minister claiming that it included names of a prominent Maoist, a CPM leader and a two-and-half year old boy.
They (the Trinamool Congress) seem to have drawn lesson from the BJP, which, after the Babri Masjid demolition, had claimed a large number of Kar Sevaks had been killed. Many of them were later found to be alive”, CPM leader Sitaram Yetchury told reporters here.
Noting that a Trinamool Congress delegation, led by its chief and railway minister Mamata Banerjee, had submitted a list of 83 of their activists allegedly killed by the CPM to the Prime Minister, he said nine of them had been identified.
While one Asit Sarkar was a well-known Maoist, another Yasin Ali Paik, was “actually a child of two-and-half years” who died of chronic illness, he said. The name of CPM activist Shankar Biswas, whose condolence meeting was attended by prominent Marxist leaders, figured on the Trinamool Congress list. One Md. Alam and another Avijit Saha were allegedly killed by Trinamool activists, he claimed.
“We are further investigating the false list submitted by Mamata. We think there are more such cases. All this canard (about CPM attacking the Trinamool Congress) is based on fabrication only to justify the patronage given by Trinamool Congress to Maoists and attacks they are mounting on us”, he said.
“We once again ask the Prime Minister how he can go on living with this contradiction” in which he calls Maoists’ threat the gravest challenge to internal security while his Cabinet colleagues “patronize” them, the Marxist leader said.
“His answer is yet to come. I hope it will”, he said. Referring to the massive bills run up by minister of state (MOS) and Trinamool leader Sultan Ahmed for staying in Ashoka Hotel instead of a government accommodation, he said the MOS had declared a total asset of Rs. 24 lakhs whereas his bill at the five-star hotel was Rs. 37 Lakh.
“As Trinamool Congress has asked Ahmed to pay the bill out of his own pocket, we wonder how he is going to do that and how the bill is finally settled. That will show the degree of their political morality.” Mr. Yetchury said.
They (the Trinamool Congress) seem to have drawn lesson from the BJP, which, after the Babri Masjid demolition, had claimed a large number of Kar Sevaks had been killed. Many of them were later found to be alive”, CPM leader Sitaram Yetchury told reporters here.
Noting that a Trinamool Congress delegation, led by its chief and railway minister Mamata Banerjee, had submitted a list of 83 of their activists allegedly killed by the CPM to the Prime Minister, he said nine of them had been identified.
While one Asit Sarkar was a well-known Maoist, another Yasin Ali Paik, was “actually a child of two-and-half years” who died of chronic illness, he said. The name of CPM activist Shankar Biswas, whose condolence meeting was attended by prominent Marxist leaders, figured on the Trinamool Congress list. One Md. Alam and another Avijit Saha were allegedly killed by Trinamool activists, he claimed.
“We are further investigating the false list submitted by Mamata. We think there are more such cases. All this canard (about CPM attacking the Trinamool Congress) is based on fabrication only to justify the patronage given by Trinamool Congress to Maoists and attacks they are mounting on us”, he said.
“We once again ask the Prime Minister how he can go on living with this contradiction” in which he calls Maoists’ threat the gravest challenge to internal security while his Cabinet colleagues “patronize” them, the Marxist leader said.
“His answer is yet to come. I hope it will”, he said. Referring to the massive bills run up by minister of state (MOS) and Trinamool leader Sultan Ahmed for staying in Ashoka Hotel instead of a government accommodation, he said the MOS had declared a total asset of Rs. 24 lakhs whereas his bill at the five-star hotel was Rs. 37 Lakh.
“As Trinamool Congress has asked Ahmed to pay the bill out of his own pocket, we wonder how he is going to do that and how the bill is finally settled. That will show the degree of their political morality.” Mr. Yetchury said.
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