The Communist Party of India-Marxist on Monday demanded that the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance II government at the Centre take immediate steps to end the nexus between the Trinamool Congress and Maoists to ensure peaceful elections in West Bengal.
CPI-M General Secretary Prakash Karat alleged that the TC was collaborating with Maoists in West Bengal to disrupt the functioning of the Left parties.
"How can a party which is an ally of the Congress collaborate with Maoists so openly? We are yet to get a satisfactory reply from the government. We have submitted a lot of evidence of the nexus between the TC and the Maoists to the Centre," Karat said.
The CPI-M leader said a peaceful election in West Bengal would be possible only when the Centre took effective steps to end this nexus.
According to Karat, the CPI-M was able to regain the parts of West Bengal where the Left party lost to Trinamool in the 2009 Lok Sabha polls. "We are getting a much bigger response and recovering those areas we have lost in the Lok Sabha elections," he added,
From February 3 to 9, nine political parties including the four Left parties, All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, Telugu Desam Party, Biju Janata Dal, Janata Dal-S, Rashtriya Lok Dal will launch a countrywide agitation demanding effective steps from the government to curb rising prices of food and essentials, regulate petroleum prices, make the public distribution system universal and take measures against hoarding.
