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Left Front will bite the dust: Mamata

Staff Reporter

KOLKATA: Referring to the dismal show put up by the Left Front in West Bengal in the Lok Sabha elections few months ago, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee said on Tuesday that the Left Front would “bite the dust and not a trace of it will remain after the State Assembly elections.”

Addressing a rally organised by the Trinamool at Sonachura in the Nandigram area of Purbo Medinipur district, Ms. Banerjee said that “the more CPI(M) indulges in violence, the greater will be its chances of being wiped out.” She accused the CPI(M) of being the “face” and using the Maoists as its “mask” to spread terror and violence.

Accusing the CPI(M) of having sought help from and given passage to the Maoists for fighting with the Trinamool at Garbeta and Keshpur in Paschim Medinipur district (between 1998 and 2002), she dared the government to arrest her if she were wrong. “Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is the leader of both the Marxists and the Maoists…or else how could armed CPI(M) cadres enter the villages in Lalgarh area and terrorise people when the police are carrying on the joint operation,” Ms. Banerjee asked.

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