'What I have demanded (advancement of Assembly polls) is firmly based on my knowledge of the Constitution,' the Trinamool Congress chief said at a civic poll rally at Mathpukur.
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today hit back at West Bengal chief minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee who had suggested that she was not familiar with the Constitution, and asserted "there were definitely constitutional provisions for advancing polls".
"What I have demanded (advancement of Assembly polls) is firmly based on my knowledge of the Constitution," Banerjee said at a civic poll rally at Mathpukur close to her Trinamool Congress headquaters at Tiljala.
In a speech against the chief minister who yesterday apparently referred to her (without actually naming) as having no knowledge of the Constitution, Banerjee said, "You dare not teach me, I don't require your certificate for our Trinamool Congress."
She then counterattacked Bhattacharjee by describing him as a "a chief minister of inaction who clings to power with the blessings of the BJP and Congress".
She charged him with causing the state's economic and industrial decline and making a dubious record of "scoring failures on all fronts".
The crowd cheered the Trinamool supremo when she said, "I vow to drive the CPI(M) out of West Bengal and rid the state of Marxist atrocities committed in the last 34 years."
"I hate CPI(M) politically. We are yet to come to power in the state, but you seem already nervous. We are committed to end corruption, nepotism and get you out of the chair," she said.
The Trinamool Congress chief said, "the 34-year uninterrupted rule by the Left Front has left the state bankrupt and a laggard in all spheres of development."
"It is a government of resounding failure in all its 34 years of existence and what the chief minister has been boasting of is indicative of his limitless arrogance and desperation."
Banerjee said she was committed to restoring the rule of law and people's democratic rights and promised to make the CPI(M) "accountable for its misdeeds" during its rule.
"As Railway minister, I have made many budgetary provisions to generate employment opportunities and ensure better passenger amenities which the Left Front government appears not to be aware of," Banerjee said in response to Bhattacharjee's remarks on her introducing new trains practically the every other day.
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