Kolkata, August 13: Trinamool Congress today defended party supremo Mamata Banerjee’s rally at Lalgarh and slammed CPI(M) and BJP for “joining hands” to target her over the issue.
“Mamata has said the politics of killing must stop. When the police are asking Maoists to take money and return to the mainstream what wrong has she done by asking them to come back to the path of peace and democracy?,” Trinamool Congress Secretary-General Partha Chatterjee said in an oblique reference to the West Bengal government’s recently announced surrender and rehabilitation package for Maoists.
“If she has done anything wrong by harping on peace and democracy she will do it a thousand times,” he said.
–Agencies