Kolkata, April 05: Crossing swords with Union Home Minister P Chidambaram for his comment that the buck stopped with Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee in tackling law and order problems, the CPI-M today said he was only copying practices followed in the US.
“He is fascinated with American accent. As a home minister, he is copying the practices followed in the US. He brought the proverb from the American table. He is not entitled to do so,” CPI-M state secretariat and Central Committee member Mohammad Salim told reporters.
“The Centre and states are not working in cross- purposes. But a spirit of cooperation is needed between the two entities. We have a federal structure. He himself is passing the buck. On the question of internal security some one should own the buck,” he said.
–Agencies