TMC-Cong alliance will remain: Mamata
India Blooms News Service
Kolkata, July 21 (IBNS) Trinamool Congress chief and Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said her party's alliance with Congress will continue in the state to oust the communists from power in the 2011 assembly polls.
“It’s true that we contested the municipal polls without our ally and turned victorious. But once you win an election, your responsibility increases. We will maintain our alliance with the Congress and together, we will work for the people of Bengal,” she said at a rally here.
Banerjee commemorated the death of 13 Youth Congress members in police firing in 1993 this day by observing the Martyr's Day with a big procession at Esplanade area in downtown Kolkata.
Attacking the ruling communists led by the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), she said: “CPI-M is ravaging West Bengal. Time has come for CPI-M to leave the state politically."
"Unless we drive CPI-M out of Bengal, we can’t have democracy here. No democracy can prevail unless ‘Maa Maati Maanush’ (mother, soil and common people) get their due respect,” Banerjee said while addressing a mammoth crowd.
Basking in the electoral successes of the last few polls, including last year’s Lok Sabha elections and the recently-held municipal polls, Banerjee said: “We will celebrate our victory only when we will uproot CPI-M from West Bengal. There shouldn’t be any trace of them here.”
Banerjee also announced a series of political movements at the rally.
“We will hold a public rally in trouble-torn Lalgarh on August 9 and from September 1, I will move around the forested areas. Let me see, who can stop me!….CPI-M can do nothing to me,” she said.
She also alleged that the CPI-M-led Left Front government in West Bengal is killing innocent people under the cover of joint operations against Maoists.
“I will personally meet the Prime Minister in Delhi and request him to stop this joint operation in West Bengal. The CPI-M is killing innocent people, tribals, policemen, and torturing women and children, in the name of operations….no action is being taken against Maoists.
“If the Government of India really wants to take steps against Maoists and terrorists, they should do that directly, and we will support them,” said Banerjee.
The Railway Minister also slammed the CPI-M for demanding her resignation over the train accident at Sainthia station, about 200 km north of Kolkata, that killed over 66 people.
“The CPI-M has no right to demand my resignation as a Union Minister. If they ask me to resign over one accident, what should be demanded from them who have committed over 9,000 crimes so far?” said Banerjee.
The city was paralyzed for long hours owing to the mammoth gathering.
In 1993 this day, 13 Youth Congress activists were killed in police firing near Mayo Road as they were marching towards the Writers' Buildings under the leadership of Mamata Banerjee.
Since then Banerjee observers the day with rallies in Kolkata.
(Reporting by Sreya Basu, photo by Avishek Mitra)
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