CALCUTTA, FEB 21: Now it's Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's turn to call the West Bengal Government `barbaric', an epithet the State Chief Minister Jyoti Basu has often used to describe the BJP-led coalition at the Centre. Mamata has accused the "CPI(M) of hatching a plot to derail Prime Minister's ongoing goodwill visit to Pakistan".Reacting to the police "forcibly evicting spectators from the Eden Gardens and completing the India-Pakistan cricket match" on Saturday, the Trinamool Congress leader, while addressing the media on Sunday, accused "the CPI(M) of using the police to sabotage Prime Minister Atal Behari's goodwill visit to Pakistan". She was particularity referring to the troubles Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee had to face in Pakistan on Saturday as an aftermath of Eden Gardens incident.She said, "The Chief Minister should quit over the incident." She also said, "The police atrocities at the behest of the State Government and a handful of trouble-shooters had loweredBengal's prestige and slammed an insult on the sports lovers."Accusing the State Home Ministry of "hatching a plot to spread disaffection between the people of two nations", the Trinamool leader said: "If the police had no confidence, they should have told us and we would have assisted them with our volunteers."On the proposed Calcutta-Dhaka bus service, she said: "We would like the Prime Minister to initiate similar friendly measures to resolve infiltration issue with Bangladesh."She felt the "the premiers of both, India as well as Bangladesh, should pay each other a visit so that the issue of infiltration is settled once and for all."Announcing the decision taken at a whole-night marathon party meeting held yesterday, she said, the party has denounced the recent attacks on the minorities in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa. It has also decided to take the corruption charges against the LF Government and Basu to its logical conclusion and the issues will be taken up with the Centre, sheinformed.Mamata also ruled out returning to the coordination committee of the BJP and its allies but said her party's joining the Vajpayee government at the Centre was still under consideration."We are not thinking in terms of joining the Vajpayee government at the Centre at the moment, but will closely watch the Budget session of the BJP-led ruling coalition," Mamata said.
