Abhishek Banerjee, CPM MLA get into Twitter war over pre-rural poll violence

Chakraborty responded on Wednesday. “Thank you @abhishekaitc for accepting the truth that your party haven’t allowed opposition to file nomination. Here’s my reply to his generous offer. 1. If he was so confident of development, perhaps he could’ve shown the guts during Panchayat nomination.2. Unlike your @aitcofficial, @cpimspeak is not a family property. We will file candidates through discussions, not by whims & fancy of an aunt and her nephew. That’s also known as democratic process.”

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Banerjee accused Chakraborty of getting personal. “Sir, since you don’t have any political answers you get personal. Expected something better. With leaders like you at the helm of affairs no wonder @cpimspeak has become the country’s biggest NPA. You still have a year left to convince your party to field u from Diamond Harbour.”

Chakraborty replied, “He should also know that since 1978, Diamond Harbour had always seen multi-party Panchayat election. If he or his party had the political honesty, they would have allowed oppositions to file nomination. But then that would have needed ‘Honesty’. With due respect @abhishekaitc should know that it’s not personal, rather it’s about democracy or lack of it. If he really wanted a political answer, he or @AITCofficial wouldn’t have indulged in terror tactics & intimidation.”

Chakraborty later told The Indian Express he was merely stating facts. “Earlier, there used to be a 100 per cent contested panchayat election in Diamond Harbour, but now it has been reduced to zero per cent this year,’’ he said. Abhishek was unavailable for comment.