West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Saturday said the Trinamool Congress could not be trusted and posed a great danger to the State as all that it knew was to create trouble.
“If you allow it [the Trinamool Congress] to spread its influence, all development — whether in agriculture, industry, education and through the panchayats — will come to a stop. It spells doom; do not allow this to happen,” Mr. Bhattacharjee told a rally of the Left Front at Dhola in South 24 Parganas district, whose zilla parishad is under the control of the Trinamool.
Coming down strongly on “attempts” by the Trinamool to create unrest and stop development, he said the panchayats it controlled were steeped in corruption and non-functional. He ridiculed the Trinamool's slogan “Ma (mother), Mati (earth), [and] Manush (people).”
Critical of the “false assurances” of the Railways, the Chief Minister, without mentioning her name, attacked Railway Minister and Trinamool chief, Mamata Banerjee, for coming out “with advertisements in newspapers almost daily of factories being set up [across the State].”
“But where are the factories? Where is the money with the Railways? Factories are not set up through advertisements and cutting of ceremonial tapes (at inaugurations),” he asserted.
Underscoring the need for industries to provide employment, he reiterated his government's priority “to first solve the problem of the poor.” “We have moved forward both in agriculture and industry but will have to go even further ahead,” Mr. Bhattacharjee said.
