CPI-M misusing central forces: Mamata Banerjee

Taking potshots at the Communist party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) for ‘misusing’ the Central security forces, deployed for conducting anti-Maoist operations in West Bengal, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee said she was ready to quit if she failed to prove it.

“The CPI-M is misusing the central forces. I would have nothing to say if the central forces were used against Maoists. If I cannot prove that the central forces are being misused by the CPI-M, I am ready to quit. Will the CPI-M government also do so?” the Trinamool Congress supremo was quoted by a news channel as saying.

“Central forces are being used to kill Trinamool Congress workers in West Bengal. 2,000 workers and supporters have been killed since the Lok Sabha elections. CPI-M has unleashed a reign of terror,” she said.

“We have been stating repeatedly that state-sponsored violence is going on. How many times we will have to say this? Our party met Union Home Minister P Chidambaram 20 times,” she said while commenting on CPI-M’s ‘terror tactics’.