The secretary of Maoist-backed People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCPA), Manoj Mahato on Friday urged the people of Jangalmahal to vote against the CPI(M) in the forthcoming Assembly polls.
Though he did not openly lend his support to Trinamul Congress, he expressed concerns over the intrusion of a lorry in Union railway minister Mamata Banerjee’s convoy after her rally at Lalgarh. “On Wednesday, Union home minister P. Chidambaram had blamed the PCPA for the Gyaneswari Express derailment. But everyone knows who is behind the incident. Mr Chidambaram himself is a murderer and a corporate lawyer, has stepped into the shoes of Shakuni mama who is trying to save the Kauravas in guise of the CPI(M),” alleged Mahato on Friday.
“The Assembly polls are impending and it is time that people should remove the conspirator CPI(M) from the state and the Congress from the Centre. We are not going to contest in the poll as a party but will appeal the people of Jangalmahal to cast their vote against the CPI(M),” added Mahato.
Pointing at the increasing political violence across the state, he claimed that the CPI(M) had been stockpiling arms in various parts of the state. “Why is neither the governor nor the Central government intervening in the political violence that CPI(M) has spread across the state? It seems even the Congress high command is preferring the CPI(M) to the Trinamul Congress in West Bengal,” he said.
Finally, Mahato sniffed a CPI(M)-conspiracy in the accident that Ms Banerjee’s convoy met on August 9. “We suspect that CPI(M) goons are behind the attack that was carried out on Mamata Banerjee’s convoy. She should not have trusted the police and should have kept the RPF security with her till Kolkata,” he said.