Trinamool Congress behind Darjeeling violence: Biman Bose

The  Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI-M] today alleged that Trinamool Congress was behind the latest violence in the Darjeeling hills as part of its 'designs' to create lawlessness in West Bengal ahead of the assembly polls.

"We hold Trianmool Congress responsible for fomenting trouble both in the Maoist strongholds of Jangalmahal as well as the Darjeeling hills ahead of the asssembly elections in the state," CPI(M) politburo member and party's state secretary Biman Bose said in Kolkata.

Releasing a CD titled 'Ashanta Samay' (Time of Unrest) at the CPI(M) headquarters, Bose said it had become amply clear that Trinamool had close links with Maoists in fomenting trouble in the Maoist-infested West Midnapore, Bankura and Purulia districts.

Bose alleged Trinamool's link with the Maoists had been traced to the Lok Sabha polls and that despite the party's denial "it has been amply proved that Union ministers from Trinamool Congress and party leaders had shared dais with Maoists and Maoist-backed Peoples Committee against police atrocities in the Jangalmahal area."

The CPI(M) leader alleged that the Trinamool Congress had been carrying on a 'sustained and systematic' politics of violence in the state, the latest being in Darjeeling.

He observed that had the police not resisted the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha procession in the 144 CrPC-bound area at Sipchu on February eight, the mob would have approached Dooars.