Click to play videoKolkata: The Left Front government in West Bengal has interpreted the visit of the three-member Union Home Ministry team walking into the Writers Building in Kolkata on Monday as a move of the Trinamool backed Central government's attempt to impose President’s rule in the state.
General secretary CPI(M), Prakash Karat said, “Obviously the team is coming at the insistence of one party in alliance with the coalition Government in the Centre, we don’t think this is a good precedent"
Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government has been battling a renewed Maoist insurgency. The post-election violent political clashes between the Left and the Trinamool too have claimed close to a 100 lives.
The Congress hoping to wrest West Bengal after 3 decades, riding on the back of the Trinamool’s political revival, is being accused of doing Mamta Banerjee's bidding.
Meanwhile, the Home Minister, P Chidambaram has been quick to deny the charges. He told Parliament on Monday that dispatching a central team to the state was entirely non confrontational and not aimed at preparing the ground to dismiss the state government.
"The team is in West Bengal only to help the state government with the Maoist crisis, " said Chidambaram.
The Home Minister’s disclaimer though has been openly contradicted by the Trinamool which has demanded the dismissal of the state government, but with the central team avoiding the centre of the political clashes hotspots of political violence, the Centre seems unlikely to give in to Mamata's demands for now.
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