Don’t vote for CPM, Congress, Mamata urges ‘Marxist friends’

Garbeta/Kesiari (WB), March 18

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee campaigning in tribal Paschim Medinipur district on Thursday asked “Marxist friends” not to vote for either the CPM or Congress, which are “cohorts of the communal BJP”.

She asked people not to give a single vote to those “who have links with the killers of Gandhiji”. The CPM, she said, was a “rotten” party whose leader was accused in the unearthing of skeletons in Paschim Medinipur. “Now the CPM is helping the BJP,” she alleged.

“I request my Marxist friends not to vote for either the Congress or the CPM as they have become cohorts of the communal BJP,” the TMC supremo said.

The CPM, Congress and the fledgling ISF have formed an alliance in West Bengal. Banerjee was referring to the unearthing of skeletal remains at Narayangarh in Paschim Medinipur district in 2011 and a CPI-M leader was accused in connection with it.

“Only the TMC will keep up its fight against the BJP,” she said and blamed the saffron party for conspiring against her at Nandigram which led to her being injured on March 10 when she was campaigning there. “After the attack, they (BJP) are now spreading falsehoods. After the conspiracy they are now involved in character assassination,” Banerjee said.

The Trinamool Congress supremo alleged that the BJP-led government at the Centre is involved in plundering crores of rupees and accusing rival parties of graft. — PTI