The Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Saturday hit out at “pro-Trinamool Congress intellectuals in West Bengal” who have charged that the CPI (M) and the Left Front government of West Bengal conspired to cause the Jhargram accident to score some political points against Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee.
Sitaram Yechury, CPI (M) Polit Bureau member, said in a statement that this reminded him of happenings in Germany when false charges against a communist party leader were used to signal a witch-hunt against communists.
Instead of joining the collective effort to provide relief and assistance to victims of this ghastly incident, all kinds of conspiracy theories were being spun. Decrying this, he said it was strange the Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee continued to talk about a “bomb blast” at the site when the Union Home Ministry denied this and talked about possible sabotage.
Mr. Yechury charged that Ms. Banerjee was deliberately trying to shield “the actual culprits” by suggesting Maoists might not be behind the sabotage. It was shocking that all this was being done to influence municipality elections in West Bengal and to further petty partisan interests, he said.
The Railway Minister was also trying to “cover up her own serious lapses of leadership.” How is that during the five months of 2010 there have been many more major railway accidents that in any year since 1980, Mr. Yechury asked.
Keywords: Gyaneswari Express disaster, West Bengal politics
Comments:
Let Manmohan transfer Mamta to information ministry.
It's really unfortunate that a section of so called intelectuals accused state govt, particularly CPI(M), of conspiring to have caused derailment of Jnaneswari express to defend the Maoists who're supposed to have perpetrated the ghastly incident as primary evidences indicated.They manufactured this conspiracy theory to absolve the railway minister of any responsibility in this incidence of sabotage so that it does not influence voters in civic polls and at the same time tarnish the image of CPI(M) before elction.Never before members of civil society in West Bengal overtly stooped so low to achieve narrow political end.