Kolkata: After demanding that a Central
team visit West Bengal on "state-sponsored terrorism",
Trinamool Congress chief and Railway minister Mamata Banerjee
on Friday said the situation required that Union Home Minister P
Chidambaram pay a visit to the state.
"The situation in the state requires a visit by the
Union Home Minister. The onus lies on the Centre to protect
the Constitution if the state government does not perform its
'rajdharma'," Banerjee told reporters here.
She said she had talked to Chidambaram, besides Union
Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and UPA chairperson Sonia
Gandhi yesterday on "terror" unleashed by the CPI-M.
The Trinamool parliamentary party had also raised the
issue in the Lok Sabha, she said.
"The Union Home minister said that they are taking
up the issue," she said.
Asked when the Central team would arrive, Banerjee
replied, "the government will inform officially."
The TC chief said her party did not want imposition of
Article 356 for elections in the state, "but why should those
(LF government) who snatch away the rights of people be
allowed to remain in power?"
Assembly elections are due in the state in 2011.
PTI
First Published: Friday, November 27, 2009, 19:04