Friday, March 16, 2007
BJP accuses CPI-M of adopting "double standards"
New Delhi/Siliguri (WB), Mar 16: Coming down heavily on the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) over the Nandigram killings, senior BJP leader and former party president Venkaiah Naidu today accused the Left party of adopting double standards. Naidu also criticised them for manhandling some Lok Sabha members on March 13 over the introduction of a bill to set up a maritime university in Tamil Nadu. As usual CPI-M had descended to fisticuffs and mindless heavy violence as that is apparently their only answer to problems nowadays, even in parliament. Naidu said: "CPI (M) is adopting double standards. They are engaging in double speak. Till yesterday, they had been giving 'pravachan' to other parties about how to conduct Parliament and all. Now, the way they have conducted the Parliament is national shame and the way they have used brutal force on innocent peasants in Nandigram speaks of their class character," Naidu said in New Delhi.
A 12-hour strike called by the main Opposition party Trinamool Congress against the killings of 14 people by police, shut business establishments, schools and offices in West Bengal. At least 21 people have died in Nandigram because of police violence since January.
Mamata Banerjee said :'In West Bengal the government is a joint venture of the Tatas and the CPI-M now.' Accusing Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya of making provocative statements at a rally Sunday in Kolkata to trigger violence against opposition parties, she said: 'The chief minister should first control his tongue if he wants to control the situation in the state.
'He is speaking like a moneyed person. He is maintaining double standards. He is playing with fire and doing whatever he wants. He has turned the state into a fiefdom and unleashed state-sponsored terrorism.' 'West Bengal is worse than Iraq or Iran. The chief minister is a dictator who is using his administrative people like a party cadre.'
Mamata Banerjee was hospitalised today when she complained of chest pain after allegedly being hit by a stone by the police while on her way to areas affected by violence yesterday. Banerjee was given saline and oxygen immediately after being admitted to the hospital.
IMO: I believe poor Didi is still not well but we can hope and pray for her early recovery. Doubtless the poor lady will be grateful for any support her party, Trinamool Congress, can be given.
A 12-hour strike called by the main Opposition party Trinamool Congress against the killings of 14 people by police, shut business establishments, schools and offices in West Bengal. At least 21 people have died in Nandigram because of police violence since January.
Mamata Banerjee said :'In West Bengal the government is a joint venture of the Tatas and the CPI-M now.' Accusing Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya of making provocative statements at a rally Sunday in Kolkata to trigger violence against opposition parties, she said: 'The chief minister should first control his tongue if he wants to control the situation in the state.
'He is speaking like a moneyed person. He is maintaining double standards. He is playing with fire and doing whatever he wants. He has turned the state into a fiefdom and unleashed state-sponsored terrorism.' 'West Bengal is worse than Iraq or Iran. The chief minister is a dictator who is using his administrative people like a party cadre.'
Mamata Banerjee was hospitalised today when she complained of chest pain after allegedly being hit by a stone by the police while on her way to areas affected by violence yesterday. Banerjee was given saline and oxygen immediately after being admitted to the hospital.
IMO: I believe poor Didi is still not well but we can hope and pray for her early recovery. Doubtless the poor lady will be grateful for any support her party, Trinamool Congress, can be given.
# posted by uv : 7:46 AM
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