Polba (WB): Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee
on Saturday night alleged the joint security operation against Maoists
in Jangalmahal area of West Bengal was in effect only helping
the ruling CPI(M) and demanded raids should also be conducted
elsewhere in West Bengal to unearth arms stockpiled by the
Marxists.
"I see no difference between Maoists and Marxists who
are also unleashing terror in different parts of the state
including vast areas of Hooghly and elsewhere," the Trinamool
Congress supremo told a party workers' meeting here.
While the joint forces are launching operations in
forested areas of West Midnapore, Bankura and Purulia
districts, armed CPI(M) cadre have turned on Trinamool
Congress activists in Arambagh, Goghat, Tarakeswar,
Chandrakona Town and many other ares but no raids were taking
place to seize their weapons, Banerjee said.
However, the Trinamool would not resort to violence to
counter CPI(M) as it believed in the "power of ballots and
not in bullets", the TC supremo said.
PTI
First Published: Sunday, March 14, 2010, 00:06