Chief Minster Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee dismissed as “regressive” the notion of “change” being promoted by Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee at a rally in Barrackpore in West Bengal North 24 Parganas district on Sunday.
“Those who are constantly harping on this change that needs to be brought are not progressive, but pushing for regressive ideas instead,” Mr. Bhattacharjee said questioning the kind of change that Ms. Banerjee wanted to usher in the State.
“She wants every project to end in disaster like Singur,” Mr. Bhattacharjee said, emphasising the loss that the State had suffered after Tata Motors withdrew their Nano small car project from Singur.
Dismissed
Admitting that some workers and leaders in his party [Communist party of India (Marxist)] had committed wrongs that had alienated the people, Mr. Bhattacharjee said that they had been dismissed from the party. “We shall have to go back to the people with folded hands,” he said. Criticising Ms. Banerjee for being whimsical, he said the process of industrialisation in the State could not be held back just because she wanted it.
Stating that the Left Front had realised that the State could not progress riding on agriculture alone, he stressed the need for industry. The State had attracted investment worth Rs. 9,000 crore last year. Evoking the Trinamool slogan of “Ma Mati Manus (the mother, the land and the people),” Mr. Bhattacharjee said that the youth of the State could not merely rely on this rhetoric and stay at home without jobs.
Reiterating the alleged links between the Trinamool and the Maoists, Mr. Bhattacharjee said the terror and violence being witnessed were reminiscent of the days when the Congress was in power. “Earlier they [Trinamool Congress] had covert links with the Maoists, but now they openly hold public rallies together,” Mr. Bhattacharjee said.
(Source : The Hindu)
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