By IANS,
New Delhi: Alleging a “Maoist-Trinamool nexus”, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Thursday slammed the Trinamool Congress for “negating the assessment” of the prime minister that Maoist violence constitutes the greatest threat to India’s internal security.
“The ministers in the union cabinet belonging to the Trinamool Congress are pressurising the union government to withdraw the central security forces which are currently in joint operations with the state (West Bengal) security forces against Maoist activities,” the CPI-M said.
“Apart from legitimising the brutality of Maoist violence, the Trinamool Congress is directly negating the assessment of the prime minister and the union home minister that Maoist violence constitutes the greatest threat to India’s internal security,” the CPI-M said in an editorial in party mouthpiece People’s Democracy.
“Yet, the Trinamool Congress ministers continue to remain in the union cabinet. The UPA and Congress party owe an answer to the country,” the party said.
The CPI-M also criticised the Maoists for projecting Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee as future chief minister of West Bengal.
“For the revolutionary advance of the Indian people, it is necessary that the communal offensive must be weakened and defeated. Where do the Maoists stand in this battle?” it asked.
“They are promoting a person to be the future chief minister of West Bengal who served as a cabinet minister in the Vajpayee (National Democratic Alliance) government, remaining silent, thus implicitly supporting, the state-sponsored communal genocide in Gujarat. She is serving as a cabinet minister today in the Manmohan Singh government. Such is the opportunism of the Maoist `class assault’ against the state.”
“The arrested Maoist leader, Chatradhar Mahato, has revealed that the Maoists received complete support and protection from the Trinamool Congress,” the CPI-M claimed.
“The Maoist-Trinamool nexus has become so integrated that one of the Maoist leaders in an interview, in Ananda Bazar Patrika, openly declared their desire to see Mamata Banerjee as the next chief minister of West Bengal!,” the CPI-M said.
The party asked the Maoists to learn lessons from Mao Zedong, the Chinese Communist leader who had “taught all of us that no revolution can succeed unless communists mingle with the people like fish takes to water.”
“This can never happen through the terror of the gun.”