This winter,Cong-Trinamool chill gets shriller

With the Trinamool Congress raising red flag on crucial decisions of the UPA government from FDI in retail sector to Teesta water sharing agreement with Bangladesh the Congress party,which is in an alliance with the party in Bengal,is planning to keep Chief Mamata Banerjee on tenterhooks by organising protests on different issues.

With the Trinamool Congress raising red flag on crucial decisions of the UPA government from FDI in retail sector to Teesta water sharing agreement with Bangladesh the Congress party,which is in an alliance with the party in Bengal,is planning to keep Chief Mamata Banerjee on tenterhooks by organising protests on different issues.

On Sunday evening,senior Congress leader and Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee visited chief ministers Kalighat residence and spent nearly half an hour with her. Though the contents of the meeting were not known,except the fact that Mukherjee had gone to express his condolence to the chief minister on the passing away of her mother,its significance cannot be brushed aside. The meeting between the two senior leaders of the party comes at a time when the Trinamool has been voicing its opposition to key central governments decisions. Sources said that Trinamool has also voiced its concerns about some provisions of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhis pet legislation,the food security bill.

Even as Pranab Mukherjee was meeting with Mamata,the Bengal congress chief was criticising the state government for the suicide of farmers allegedly out of falling in a debt trap.

We have seen reports that farmers are committing suicides because of a huge debt burden. They are not getting any financial assistance nor are they getting jobs under schemes like MGNREGS. The government much start an investigation into these deaths and they should let us know the exact number of deaths, said state Congress chief Pradip Bhattacharya.

On January 4,the Congress is planning to stage a dharna across the state demanding minimum support price for paddy growers.

Congress MP Deepa Dasmunsi has already threatened to launch a big agitation in North Bengal if the Centre did not heed to her demand of setting up a AIIMS-like hospital in her constituency Raigunj in North Dinajpur. Mamata has objected to the setting up of the hospital in Raigunj and wants Kalyani in North 24-Parganas district to house it.

In recent days,the Congress has been attacking the Trinamool for trying to decimate the party in a planned manner.

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