TMC to Cong: All exit doors open

Chakrabarty said the state government had failed to discharge its “raj dharma” by acting differently in two offences of same nature. He was referring to the Rajganj incident for which Trinamool students were booked under bailable sections while SFI students were booked under non-bailable sections for a similar offence in Nadia. The minister also said his party will not quit the government at anybody’s wish. “The government has come into power through an alliance. We have not come to power through anyone’s charity or grace…If the high command so desires,we will leave the field like a rejected skipper.”

Soon after Chakrabarty’s salvo,there were counter-attacks at a rally of the Trinamool Congress’s youth wing addressed by several senior leaders and ministers.

“Some of them (Congress leaders) are saying that the party does not exit from the back door,but the main entrance. We are telling them all doors are open for them to go,” said Trinamool Congress secretary general Partha Chatterjee,in an apparent dig at the statement by Mamata-baiter Congress MP Deepa Dasmushi.

Alleging that the Congress and the CPM had ganged up against Mamata to stall development in agriculture and industry in the state,Chatterjee said: “Congress must declare clearly whether it will side with the CPM or remain with the Trinamool. We will not tolerate duplicity.”

Subrata Mukherjee,minister for Panchayats and Public Health Engineering,said: “Even if you open the doors,they (the Congress) will not quit.They are shameless. Any attempt to join hands with the CPM will not be tolerated.”

The Chief Minister who had on Saturday dared the Congress to quit the alliance in the state did not attend the rally.