“In fact, both the Maoists and the Trinamool Congress had made several statements and published documents urging all opposition parties to unite and dethrone the elected CPI(M)-led Left Front government from the state,” a spokesperson of the CPI(M) said.

 

The spokesperson pointed out the September issues of Peoples March and Peoples Truth, where the Maoists had reiterated that they were very much present in Nandigram, Singur and Lalgarh along with the Trinamool Congress-led opposition parties and played lead role in organising a movement against the CPI(M).

 

“Mr Chidambaram should read these two issues before making such statements. We came to know that the minister had entrusted Institute of Conflict Management to prepare a report on this. We hope the institute would come up with an unbiased report,” he said.

 

“Never before there was such an unholy and heinous alliance between the extreme leftists and extreme rightists to dethrone an elected government in any state of independent India,” he claimed and alleged that money from within the country and outside played an important role in bringing together the two extreme opposite forces.

 

The Prime Minister has described the maoists as the greatest threat to the country’s internal security. Even Chidambaram is echoing it. “But he is going out of his way to find out a link between the CPI(M) and the maoists instead of condemning the Trinamool Congress for working actively with them,” he claimed.

 

“Even Chairman of National Security Task Force, Ved Marwah, has admitted that they have infiltrated into the ranks of Trinamool Congress. But Chidambaram is reluctant to admit the facts because he is not only afraid of Trinamool supremo Mamata Banerjee but, also working towards a plan for a possible victory of the Congress-Trinamool alliance in 2011 assembly elections in West Bengal ,” he pointed out.

 

The spokesperson said even though the Left government had been demanding a joint operation by the security forces of West Bengal and Jharkhand for quite sometime to flush out the Maoists, nothing had been done so far.

 

“The Union Home Ministry had been delaying such operations and misleading people with ideas after ideas like deploying the army or an operation by the para-military forces under army supervision, for political gains and under the pressure of Trinamool, the largest partner of the UPA government at the Centre,” he pointed out.

 

“Jharkhand is under President's rule now and, therefore, there should not have been any problem in organising a joint operation by the security forces of the two states. Except for a couple of rounds of meetings among the police officials, however, nothing has been done so far,” he observed.

 

Maoists had killed at least 88 local leaders, mostly belonging to the CPI(M) since June 19, when the joint forces started an anti-Maoist operation at Lalgarh and surrounding areas.