Mamata urged not to send wrong signals

Banerjee, had, on the contrary, launched an agitation against the price rise like parties opposed to the BJP and announced a programme of observing December 6 as `Black Day’.

Sikdar, the lone BJP Member of Parliament from the State, said that this had sent a wrong signal to the people, and added that both the allies should work together to fight the Marxists. Banerjee, he said, should take a lesson from the poll reverses.

Admitting that the spiralling prices of onion and other essential commodities were also responsible for thecombine’s defeat, he said that a section of officers owing allegiance to the Congress were behind this.

The State BJP chief alleged that three railway officers deliberately held back wagons carrying onions to the State and demanded that Railway Minister Nitish Kumar order an investigation into it.

Sikdar said the Communist Party of India (Marxist) had put the blame on the BJP-led Government at the Centre for the onion price hike but the Left Front Government remained indifferent to the hike in electricity tariffs in the State.

Describing the hike as “exorbitant”, he said it was done with the support of the Front Government.