'Trinamool Congress has become restless. They want to capture everything immediately from school committee to party office,' said the West Bengal chief minister.
In a stern warning to Trinamool Congress, West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today asked the party not to foment trouble in the state and called upon the leftist workers to give a fitting reply if TC continued to tread this path.
"After winning a few more seats in the Lok Sabha election, Trinamool Congress has become restless. They want to capture everything immediately from school committee to party office. I warn TC leaders not to go that way," the CPI(M) leader told a public meeting at the Raslila Maidan here.
"TC was posing as if they have conquered the world. They wanted to do whatever they like. But they cannot do that. The leftist workers will give fitting reply to them if TC continued to tread that path," he said.
He said that state's development would be stalled if peace was disturbed.
Bhattacharjee used the platform in this north Bengal town to make it clear that the state government would not allow separate Kamtapur, Greater Cooch Behar or Gorkhaland.
He urged those demanding Kamtapur or Greater Cooch Behar to come for dialogue and said he has instructed district magistrate to talk to those who wanted to come back to the mainstream.
The chief minister said resorting to arms would not "earn them a separate state" and noted that prevalence of unemployment did not mean that people will demand separate state to get jobs.
Bhattacharjee asserted that no one would gain if the state was dismembered.
The chief minister said his government was prepared to give more financial and other powers to Darjeeling hill, but would not accept the demand for separate statehood.
Turning to the state government's initiative for rapid industrialisation of the state, he said only agriculture was not enough and to provide jobs to the youth, setting up of industries was necessary.
Bhattacharjee said now that the jute strike was over, he would talk to the jute mill owners for setting up of a jute park in Cooch Behar.
Touching the issue of price rise, he said "during the chief ministers' meeting with the prime minister in Delhi last week, we asked for some funds so that we could provide rice, wheat, sugar etc at a cheaper rate to the poor."
"But the Centre has not done anything," he said.
The state government, he said, has to spend Rs700 crore for providing rice to the poor at Rs 2 per kg.
Bhattacharjee also cautioned the centre regarding rise in price of petroleum products.
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