Kolkata, May 24: With Prime Minister Manmohan Singh identifying Maoists as the biggest internal security threat, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacherjee today said they must be stopped at the state borders.
“This menace has to be stopped at the border itself,” Bhattacherjee, who is the CPI(M) Politburo member, told a May 30 civic election meeting here.
He alleged that when the Prime Minister was calling the Maoists the biggest internal threat, the Trinamool Congress which was a UPA ally, was helping the ultras in West Bengal.
Without naming Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, he said “She is denying that Maoists don’t exist in West Bengal. She is also opposing anti-Maoist operations in Lalgarh.
–Agencies