The Centre banned the CPI (Maoist) on the basis of a recommendation from the West Bengal government,a union minister said on Wednesday. "The Centre banned the CPI (Maoist) after getting a recommendation from the state government," Union Minister of State Sriprakash Jaiswal told reporters after meeting Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee in Kolkata. "The state must have sent a recommendation,written or verbal,to the Centre to ban the CPI (Maoist)," he said,adding "without the state government's recommendation,the Centre does not ban an extremist organisation".
