‘Will probe Left irregularities’
Clearly irked by the CPI(M)’s persistent propaganda about use of black money by the Trinamul Congress, party chief Mamata Banerjee on Friday hinted that when she came to power she would probe all the financial irregularities committed by the Left Front government in the past 34 years. “How can they accuse us of stealing money
when the Trinamul Congress has not even come to power? The Trinamul Congress is not run by anybody’s money. We are not dishonest or corrupt. It is the Left Front government which has stolen public money and when we come to power, we will unearth all their financial irregularities and chori. They will have to account for every paisa. We will not spare anyone,” she warned, adding that CPI(M) cadres would be spared but not the leaders who had minted money. Ms Banerjee was addressing an election rally at Dhanekhali in Hooghly.
A furious Ms Banerjee warned the CPI(M) that it should not push her to the wall. “Don’t make the mistake of considering my nobility and restraint as my cowardice. If you push too hard I will hit back with full force and tear off your mask,” she thundered.
She said that the manner in which the CPI(M) leaders were spreading canard, they have turned Left politics into a “shame”.
On Thursday, addressing a rally in Dankuni of Hooghly, chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee had averred that after returning to power, he would set up an industry at the Tata Motors’ abandoned site in Singur. In an apparent reply to Mr Bhattacharjee, Ms Banerjee said: “They have again arrogantly started saying that they would set up the factory at Singur. They have no right. No factory will be allowed in Singur unless 400 acres is returned to the unwilling farmers.”
Rubbing salt to Mr Bhattacharjee’s injuries, the Trinamul Congress chief said that the people of the state had turned against him because he had grabbed their land. She promised that she would set up a Metro coach factory near Singur. She reiterated her promise that within two years of coming to power, she would provide 10 lakh jobs to the youth.
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