Banerjee said that CPI(M) is talking of a comeback. They will never come back. The sooner they go, the sooner the people will feel relieved.
Charging the CPI(M) with lying to the people of West Bengal throughout the 35 years of Left Front rule, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said that such a political party should not exist.
"Such a political party should not exist. Throughout the Left Front rule of 35 years, it had lied to the people. During its rule, it has looted farmers, the future of unemployed youth and even the Nobel (medallion of Rabindranath Tagore)," Banerjee said while flagging off trains in presence of Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi at the Howrah station.
In an indirect reference to the CPI(M) rally at the Brigade Parade Grounds earlier in the day where party leaders called for making a comeback, she said, "they (CPI(M)) are talking of a comeback. They will never come back. The sooner they go, the sooner the people will feel relieved."
She alleged that during her tenure as Railway Minister, the CPI(M) had sent some television channels to find fault with the Railways. "So every day, you would find news that a rat or a cockroach had been sighted in some compartment."
Without naming the CPI(M), she said in the same breath, "the Gyaneswari Express mishap was engineered and many people were killed. These are dangerous people."
Banerjee, who inaugurated six new express and passenger trains and formally announced introduction of nine express, passenger and local trains, said that with this, her budget assurance for 2011-12 has been fulfilled.
"Many have said that the budget promises are a hoax. I tell them, all the promises have been fulfilled. To them, I say, talk after 35 years," she said.
Accusing the erstwhile CPI(M)-led Left Front government of leaving a debt burden of over Rs 2 lakh crore on her government, Banerjee said that for every rupee earned, 94 paise was spent on paying interest and salaries and only 6 paise was left for development work.
"But where there is a will, there is a way. I have, for example, assured that teachers are paid their salaries on the first of every month through banks. Earlier, no one knew where the money went. There was no accountability and no audit," the chief Minister said.
Stating that the new terminal building of the NSC Bose International Airport would be completed by March and handed over in April, she said that the state government had received a number of Expressions of Interest on helicopter and light aircraft services to connect Haldia, Sunderbans, Darjeeling, Bolpur and Durgapur.
Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi stressed the importance of ensuring safety in the railways and said that the common man must also be more alert in helping the railways maintain safety.
Trivedi said he was personally monitoring the progress of work for the metro railway extension projects in the state.
"Once the manufacturing units like Kanchrapara and Kulti come up in the next five or six years, a new Bengal will emerge," he said.
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