Mamata stoking panic amongst Muslims: CPI-M

In a letter to Chidambaram,they said if Banerjee genuinely possessed such “secret information”,then Home Ministry should “obtain it and act on it in consultation with the state government”.

“If on the contrary,there is no such information,as surely is the case,then may we request you to set at rest the apprehensions and tensions that have resulted from the Union Minister’s utterances,”,the senior CPI(M) leaders,who met Chidambaram,said.

They drew Chidambaram’s attention to “a serious situation that is developing in the course of the current election campaign to municipal corporations” in West Bengal and sought his intervention.

Maintaining that 30 years of Left Front rule was marked by “unprecedented communal harmony and fraternity”,they said any effort to blemish this record would not be in the interests national unity and integrity.

“Further,casting such wild and unsubstantiated allegations,especially by a Union cabinet minister,also violates the provisions of the Representation of People Act,1951,” Yechury and Acharia said.

They submitted another letter in this regard,written by Left Front Chairman Biman Basu,to the Home Minister.