Canning (WB): With CPI-M protesting
against the use of `harmad` to describe its cadre, Trinamool
Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today said that Home Minister P
Chidambaram had used the correct word.
"Chidambaram is correct. Those who carry guns and
bombs should be called `harmad`. What else will he say to
describe CPI-M cadre?" Banerjee said on the Home Minister`s
letter to Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on law and
order in West Bengal.
On Bhattacharjee`s annoyance with the word, she said,
"CPI-M is angry with the use of the word `harmad`. This is the
right word to describe them."
She alleged that police were not maintaining records
of seized arms and passing them to CPI-M cadre.
Addressing a rally of state government employees here
in South 24 Parganas, she alleged that the ruling Left Front
had started contractual service from the state secretariat
down to all levels.
"Before the Assembly polls, CPI-M leaders are saying
that the contract workers will be made permanent employees.
The West Bengal government cannot pay salaries of its
employees if the Centre does not give grants," she said.
PTI
