MUNDAMARI, PINGLA (MIDNAPORE), SEPT 26: A CPI(M)-led Left Front team which visited Pingla and Sabang in Midnapore district on Monday has sought an audience with the President, the Prime Minister and the Union Home Minister to impress upon them the need to ``restrain Mamata Banerjee from spreading violence in the trouble-torn district''.Speaking to reporters in Pingla, leader of the six-member team Biplab Dasgupta, MP, said: ``If they want peace, they have to restrain Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee and her men in Sabang and Pingla.'' There were reports that a large number of CPI(M) workers were not allowed to enter their homes in these two Assembly constituencies.``If they want to come to power, they have to win the election,'' Dasgupta told reporters, adding that ``neither the CPI(M) nor the Left Front is panicking over Mamata Banerjee's victory in the recent Lok Sabha by-election in Panskura''.While in Midnapore, Dasgupata faced angry CPI(M) supporters who complained that the leaders and the police had failed to provide them protection from ``Trinamool Congress's goons''.In Harijan Pali village of Sabang district, an elderly woman told this reporter - ``You stay back and see what they do to us in the night, and don't flee like these leaders''.A villager said: ``The Trinamool Congress men, who come on motorbikes, with their faces covered and holding guns, ask us to part with our land and money to let us stay in the village.''Later, speaking to partymen, Dasgupta, who was accompanied by Basudeb Acharya, Ajay Chakraborty, S. Mahato, minister, Manoj Bhattacharya, Laxman Seth and Sandhya Bauri, assured a group of agitated men in Mundamari that they would be allowed to get into their houses in Pingla and Sabang before Durga puja.
