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Mangalkote (West Bengal), Aug 11 (IANS) Trinamool Congress chief and Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee Tuesday challenged West Bengal’s Left Front government to get the Central Bureau of Investigation to probe the murder of a CPI-M leader here.
The June 16 murder of Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) district committee member Falguni Mukherjee triggered widespread violence in this trouble-torn block of Burdwan district.

“Let the (Central Bureau of Investigation) CBI probe the Falguni Mukherjee murder. If they (the CPI-M-led Left Front government) have the guts, they should take up the challenge by initiating steps in this direction,” Banerjee told a rally at Khudrun near here.

After Mukherjee’s murder, several opposition leaders, including Trinamool leader in the assembly Partha Chattopadhyay and Congress legislature party chief Manas Bhuniya, have faced the wrath of CPI-M cadres whenever they tried to go to the area.

Alleging that the CPI-M activists were committing murders, Banerjee said: “We want everybody perpetrating violence to be brought to book, irrespective of whether they belong to the CPI-M, Congress or to our party.”

On the government extending prohibitory orders banning the assembly of more than four people in Mangalkote, she said: “The CPI-M did not take any lessons from Nandigram and Singur episodes. They should not have enforced the prohibitory orders.”

Urging the people to resist the CPI-M backed anti-socials, Banerjee said: “They (the CPI-M) can’t block Mangalkote any longer… They can’t barricade Mangalkote for long.”

The rally was called to protest the police action on Trinamool Congress supporters Saturday at the same spot.

Police used batons and lobbed teargas shells after Trinamool Youth Congress workers tried to go towards Dhanyarukhi - the epicentre of the Mangalkote violence - defying prohibitory orders and brickbatted the cops when stopped.