New Delhi: The CPI(M) on Tuesday accused Trinamool
Congress of submitting a "false" list of its workers allegedly
killed by Left activists in West Bengal to the Prime Minister,
claiming that it included names of a prominent Maoist, a
CPI(M) leader and a two-and-a-half year old boy.
"They (TC) seem to have drawn a lesson from the BJP
which, after the Babri Masjid demolition, had claimed a large
number of 'kar sevaks' had been killed. Many of them were
later found to be alive," CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury told
reporters here.
Noting that a TC delegation led by its chief and Railway
Minister Mamata Banerjee had submitted a list of 83 of their
activists allegedly killed by the CPI(M) to the Prime
Minister, he said nine of them had been identified.
While one Asit Sarkar was a known Maoist, another, Yasin
Ali Paik, was "actually a child of two and a half years" who
died of chronic illness, he said.
The name of CPI(M) activist Shankar Biswas, whose
condolence meeting was attended by prominent Marxist leaders,
figured in the TC list. One Mohd Alam and another Avijit Saha
were allegedly killed by TC activists, he claimed.
"We are further investigating the false list submitted by
Mamata. We think there are more such cases. All this canard
(about CPI(M) attacking TC) is based on fabrication only to
justify the patronage given by TC to Maoists and attacks they
are mounting on us," Yechury said.
PTI
First Published: Tuesday, December 08, 2009, 18:24