The violence at Lalgarh in West Bengal's East Midnapur district was the result of the "factional feud" within the CPI(M),Opposition Leader Partha Chatterjee said in the assembly on Thursday. Chatterjee alleged that the Left Front government was trying to divert the attention from the people's anger against CPI(M)'s reign of terror across the state by enacting a "Maoist drama" in Lalgarh. The senior Trinamool Congress leader also said though Maoists were banned in other states,the CPI(M) here did not do so as it knew that terror in Lalgarh was the result of the "internal feud" within the party. The accumulated anger of the people against the Left Front government could not be suppressed through use of brute force by the police,he said. Chatterjee said Trinamool Congress had already stated that it was against the politics of violence and killing of individuals. He said 23 Trinamool Congress workers had been killed in post-poll clashes in the state,while arms and ammunition were recovered from houses of some CPI(M) leaders.
