Click to play videonew Delhi: The Union Home Ministry has said the onus of tackling Maoist menace in West Midnapore's Lalgarh lies with the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee-led West Bengal government.
It has been just a month that political equations in Delhi changed and the impact is being felt on the ground especially in the Left Bastion of West Bengal where the Communist Party of India-Marxist is under siege politically and otherwise from the Trinamool Congress and the Maoists.
Trinamool Congress chief and Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee is leading the offensive against CPI-M from the Centre.
"As far as lalgarh is concerned it is a typical problem of the CPI-M unleashing state sponsored terror," says Trinamool Congress Leader Dinesh Trivedi.
Fearing a repeat of Nandigram, the state is hoping that it is central forces and not the state police which take up the task of flushing the Maoists from Lalgarh.
But Union Home Ministry pointed out that the onus was on the Buddhadeb government.
The situation in Lalgarh has been deteriorating over the last three-four days. One side of the government is willing to take action... the other side of the government is worried about the consequences now. This is a judgement the Chief Minister must make," says Union Home Minister P Chidambaram.
Caught on the backfoot the West Bengal government is hitting out.
"This is not detective fiction. The most important task before the state government is to restore normalcy in parts of West Midnapore," says West Bengal Chief Secretary Ashok Mohan Chakraborty.
But even the Left Front government is unsure of how to tackle the red rage. The official line is to fight the Maoists politically rather than with force even though the cadre is calling for firm action and a blanket ban on all Maoist groups in the state.
The fear is that Lalgarh is threatening to snowball into a Centre-state conflict and is turning out to be a test case for the newly formed Trinamool-Congress alliance.
While Mamata Banerjee is demanding action against the state government, the Home Ministry has refused to be drawn into what it sees as Trinamool-CPM politics.
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