Maoists take on Mamata for tying up with the Cong

Maoists take on Mamata for tying up with the Cong

Snigdhendu Bhattacharya

Kolkata, March 29—When the CPI(M) has launched state-wide campaign against the Trinamool Congress alleging that it has liaison with the Maoists, the red militants meanwhile have criticised the firebrand Opposition leader of Bengal, once again, this time for tying up with the Congress for the upcoming general elections.

In a recent video release by the underground militant party, Kishanji, the second man in the CPI(Maoist ) politburo and one of ‘most wanted’ persons the Indian state is searching for, criticised Mamata Banerjee for having no credibility and consistency at all.

“The other day Mamata Banerjee was accusing the Congress of being the B-team of CPI(M) and now she the made them into the B-team of Trinamool Congress. This is the politics of the vote m mongers,” Kishanji said in that video release from some undisclosed location, keeping his face opposite to the camera.

This is, however, not the first time when the red militants have come to openly criticise Mamata Banerjee after they worked together in Nandigram to keep the “CPI(M) harmads,” at bay. Earlier, in their party mouthpiece, Biplabi Yug, the Maoists had made remarks such as Mamata Banerjee would be the first person to ban the Maoists once she is in the power and dared her to make adverse comments against the Maoists again and then hold rallied at Nandigram.

Sources in both the parties say that it was during the last phase of the battle of Nandigram when differences between the two parties surfaces again and they started criticising each other. It all started when the local Trinamool had opposed to a programme that Matangini Mohila Samiti, a Maoism-influenced women’s body that played an important role in mobilising women to protect their land, had planned to hold independently.

With the rift widened, the Trinamool supremo, from a party gathering at Nandigram, alleged that the CPI(M) had helped the Maoists flee from Nandigram and demanded that the state government bans the Maoists, the Maoists in reply asked Mamata Banerjee to stop making loser comments.

In the recent video release( a copy of which is in possession of HT), Kishanji along with party Orissa chief Sabyasachi Panda, said that their main enemy in state of Bengal is ‘social fascist’ CPI(M), they also stressed that the Trinamool Congress is no alternative to them. They reaffirmed that they were behind the resistance struggle at Nandigram and would stand by struggling people everywhere like they are doing at Lalgarh at present.

These comments comes at a time when the CPI(M) is regularly accusing the Trinamool Congress for joining hands with the Maoists. “Those who are Trinamool cadres in day hours, turn Maoist workers when the sun sets,” CPI(M) state committee member and west Midnapore district secretary Deepak Sarkar commented. They had also given a clarion call to protect the ideas of Maoism from the Maoists. The Trinamool, on the other hand, has also launched a campaign against the CPI(M) “for giving birth to the Maoists.”

Now, with that video release from some undisclosed location, the militants has again made it clear that they are not seeing much difference between the CPI(M) and the Trinamool Congress.