Biman blames Trinamool,Didi blames CPM

Bose minced no words to blame the Trinamool for the flare up in the region by accusing the party of working with the Morcha worker through a “loose contact”.

“The Trinamool is working on a basis of loose contact in the Hills,” Bose said at party headquarters at Alimuddin street.

Pointing at the ongoing turbulence in Darjeeling district following the violence on February 8, Bose said that whereas attempts at creating a conflict in the hills have been seen in the past,this time it has descended to the plains in Doars.

“The Morcha wanted to create tension in the plains as they backed out from the agreement reached at the tripartite talks for setting up a council in the Hills after the Assembly polls in the state,” Bose said.

Within hours,Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee refuted all the allegations levelled by the CPM and she would prefer death rather than participating in such divisive politics.

“How can Trinamool Congress be involved in this incident,when it is a fact that we do not have any organisation over there? Our priority has always been for restoring peace in the Hills,which is already deep in trouble. I will open my party’s unit over there only after peace is restored,” she said. “I would rather die than playing this kind of dirty,divisive politics,” Banerjee added.

She reiterated her earlier statement that the entire incident was pre-planned by the ruling CPM on the eve of the arrival of an observer team from the Election Commission,to deliberately deteriorate the law and order situation of the state and defer the elections.

“The CPM has sustained themselves for 35 years by playing the same old dirty politics of creating a rift between the Hills and the plains just before the elections. I have repeatedly asked the Prime Minister and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi to see to it that the elections are pre-poned. Had that been done,this incessant cycle of bloodshed would have stopped,” the Railway Minister said.

Banerjee alleged that despite having ample time,the ruling Left never solved the problems in the Hills. “How many times have the CPM leaders gone to North Bengal and spoken to the people over there? I did not even carry a flag of my party during my last visit to Darjeeling in October,2010,as it could have sparked violence. Such incidents are against the spirit of democracy and it should not be repeated,” she said.