Mamata has relations with BJP, not us: CPI-M
April 15th, 2011 - 8:52 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, April 15 (IANS) The Communist Party of India- Marxist (CPI-M) Friday lashed out at Mamata Banerjee for calling West Bengal’s ruling Marxists “brothers of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)”, and said the Trinamool Congress chief’s political track record and candidates list proved her relations with that party.
“She has alleged that we are brothers of the BJP. But if you see her track record, then you will see that she and her party had been in the NDA government led by the BJP. After losing the 2001 assembly elections she returned to NDA only months after the Gujarat holocaust,” Sitaram Yechury told reporters in Kolkata.
Yechury also took a dig at Trinamool Congress candidate and former FICCI general secretary Amit Mitra for his links with Gujarat Chief Minister and BJP leader Narendra Modi.
“Amit Mitra during his tenure in FICCI had gone to London in 2003 to project Modi and Gujarat both personally and officially as a destination for investment. He had gone to London to sell Gujarat to foreign investors,” said Yechury.
“This political track record and candidates’ list of Trinamool shows who had relations with the BJP. People of Bengal will take the decision,” said Yechury.
Amit Mitra is fighting assembly polls from the Kharda constituency. He is pitted against state Finance Minister and Left Front heavyweight Asim Dasgupta.
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