'Don't go with Naxalites', Buddha to TMC

West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today claimed that he had got specific information on Trinamool Congress’ link with the Naxalites and warned the party not to join hands with it to put the CPI(M) in trouble.

“The Trinamool Congress is working together with the Naxalites in some parts of the state. I have specific information that it is working with the Naxalites at Salboni, Goaltore and Garbeta in West Midnapore district, Sarenga in Bankura and Balarampur in Purulia. I am telling them don't go that way,” he said.

“Initially, Trinamool had said there was nothing called the Naxalites. Naxalites and PCPA are hand in glove and we know Trinamool’s connection with them,” he told a Left Front rally organised to protest against rising prices of essential commodities.

Bhattacharjee charged the Trinamool Congress with trying to create terror and anarchy in the state.

“Whenever there was trouble in a district like Hooghly, I told the district administration to convene a meeting to stop it, but they will not attend it. It will only foment trouble,” he said.

The chief minister said if the Trinamool Congress was really trying to establish peace, it would have attended those meetings. “I am still advising it to talk to the government and not to go that way,” he said.