Click to play videoKolkata: Ahead of the crucial Kolkata Municipal elections, politics in West Bengal has hit a new low. Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has accused Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya of fuelling communal tensions in the state with the help of police.
Mamata Banerjee, who has vowed to end the Left rule in Bengal, has made serious allegations against her arch rival.
"I have secret reports that he [Buddhadeb Bhattacharya] has involved the police to spread communal violence. He has instructed them to choose the Muslim pockets of Kolkata - like Rajabazar, Beniapukur, Park Circus, Garden Reach, Khidirpur - and spread riots," Banerjee said.
The allegation levelled by Mamata during her campaign for the Kolkata Municipal polls has sent shockwaves.
Meanwhile, Buddhadeb Bhattacharya has refused to take the allegations lying down.
While replying to Mamata's allegations, the West Bengal CM warned that such allegations could set a 'dangerous trend' in state's politics.
"Never before in West Bengal communal riots were made an issue in election campaign. It's a dangerous trend. Language and mannerisms of the criminal world is being imported in politics," Bhattacharya said.
Trying to cash-in on the failure of the seat sharing talks between the Trinamool Congress and the Congress party, Bhattacharya even tried to widen the rift between the two parties saying that Mamata Banerjee's party was prone to political violence.
"Even the Congress is forced to oppose the Trinamool because that party, violence-prone and devoid of program as it is, has now resorted to dangerous campaigns," Bhattacharya added.
The Bengal Congress, despite smarting from Mamata's snub, has refused to buy Budha's platitudes and alleged that the ruling Left Front government was trying to divide the Opposition.
"If political leaders of the Marxist Communist Party think that they will divide the opposition forces by criticizing this type of blind attitude, it will never be accepted," says Pradip Bhattacharya, Leader, West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee.
The war of words has reached fever pitch ahead of the Municipal polls and political courtesy seems the first victim in this dance of democracy.
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