Kolkata: Breaking her silence on the Home Minister's letter to the West Bengal Chief Minister, Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday demanded Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's resignation as he had remained silent on the existence of armed CPI(M) camps in his reply to the letter.
"Chidambaram's letter is serious, but the chief minister's reply is casual and vague. There is no mention in the reply on the main issue of existence of CPI(M) armed camps," Mamata told a press conference after Bhattacharjee's reply was released to the press.
"Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee should quit as he has been brazenly violating the Constitution and unleashing state- sponsored terrorism in the name of curbing Maoists," she said.
The Trinamool supremo said she was not objecting to curbing Maoist violence, "but the chief minister suppressed facts in his reply."
Defending the use of the word 'harmard' in Chidambaram's letter in a reference to CPI(M) armed camps, Mamata said "They are of course harmards. Harmards are a
type of mercenaries who move about with AK-47, stenguns, high explosives and lethal weapons. How else will I describe them?" Stating that Chidamabaram had only advised the state to follow 'raj dharma', she said when there was "state- sponsored terrorism" and violation of constitutional and fundamental rights of the people, "it is time to ask the state government to follow raj dharma."
"The spirit of Chidambaram's letter is to advise the government to follow raj dharma. The Centre has acted within the parameters of the Constitution."
She said similar advice was given by the Centre to the Gujarat government during the riots there.
Rubbishing Trinamool Congress's links with Maoists as alleged in Bhattacherjee's letter to Chidambaram, she said "the chief minister himself is a Maoist leader and is acting as a mask of the Maoists."
Banerjee claimed that a blueprint had been drawn up by the CPI(M) on one hand and Maoists on the other to kill Trinamool workers prior to the coming Assembly polls.
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