Yechury accuses BJP of supporting Maoists

SHIMLA: Criticising senior BJP leader L K Advani for attacking the UPA government on internal security issue, the CPI (M) on Tuesday accused the saffron party of supporting Maoists in Nandigram and said this posed a threat to security scenario.
  
"Maoists have gained stronghold wherever BJP is in power or is strong," CPI(M) politbureau member Sitaram Yechury told reporters here and pointed to over 300 naxalites fleeing from a jail in Chattisgarh to drive home the point.
   
"Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said on several occasions that Maoists pose the greatest danger to the country today and BJP by supporting it is aggravating the scenario", he alleged and charged Advani with "double standards".
  
Yechury said the world knows that CPI(M) workers were killed in Nandigram in the attacks by Maoists who have made this block of West Bengal their war zone with the help of BJP and Trinamool Congress.
  
He said the Left was putting a "tight leash" on the UPA government so that it did not take any decision against the common people and referred to its opposition on merger of smaller banks and privatisation of pension of government employees.
 
On Advani's comment that the Left was shrinking world over and is today confined to Cuba, Kolkata and Kerala, Yechury said "it was out of his fear of the Left."