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Buddhadeb responsible for violence in Nandigram : Mamata
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NewsByte on 04 March, 2008 10:40:00
 
Opposition Trinamool Congress and Congress today accused Chief Minister
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee of being responsible for violence in Nandigram and asked
him to control the cadre of his party CPI(M).
Claiming that TC was not behind the violence there, Trinamool Congress chief
Mamata Banerjee said that instead of appealing to her party, Bhattacharjee
should tell his own party to maintain peace.
''He is responsible for the violence at Nandigram. He is now talking of peace.
Instead of asking us, he should tell his partymen to maintain peace,'' Banerjee
told reporters here shortly after Bhattacharjee's appeal to both TC and CPI-M
for peace at Nandigram.
The TC supremo said her party had shown enough patience and restraint.
''Nandigram would have been in flames had we wanted trouble there.'' TC general
secretary Partha Chatterjee, referring to Sunday's and yesterday's violence,
said "we really wonder how Bhattacherjee can appeal to us when he cannot control
his own armed cadre who are responsible for unrest and killing of innocent
villagers in Nandigram." Chatterjee said it was surprising that Bhattacharjee
was making such an appeal when it was his government which had prevented the
CRPF, deployed after the recapture of Nandigram by the marxists in November last
year, from performing its duties.
Leader of the Congress Legislature Party in the state Manas Bhuiyan claimed
many of those who received land documents from the Chief Minister were
economically sound CPI(M) supporters.