Home Minister P Chidambaram's comments about West Bengal's 'deteriorating' law and order and 'precarious' finances has drawn a sharp response from the Left parties with Front chairman Biman Bose describing the comments as mere 'election-oriented utterances' and asking him to answer for the 'worsening' law and order situation in Delhi.
"These were only election-oriented utterances by Chidambaram which were meant to boost the image of the Congress and the Trinamool Congress alliance," Bose, who is also a CPI-M politburo member, told a press conference along with leaders of other Left Front constituents.
Bose said in any case the Congress-Trinamool alliance was going to be defeated in the election. CPI MP Gurudas Dasgupta told PTI that Chidrambaram should look in the mirror and judge his own performance as the home minister of the country.
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