Bring back LF as TMC taking Bengal towards destruction: Mishra

Virtually kicking off his party's campaign for next year's Assembly poll in West Bengal, CPI-M state secretary Surjya Kanta Mishra today called upon the people to bring back the Left Front to power as the Trinamool Congress had taken the state on the path of "destruction" during its rule.
"The Trinamool Congress government has taken the state towards destruction during its five-year rule. Now it's time to save it," Mishra said while addressing a public meeting at Siliguri in north Bengal, from where the party won a major electoral battle for the first time after its debacle at the hands of Mamata Banerjee led TMC in 2011.

The CPI(M)-led Left Front won the Siliguri Municipal Corporation election in April and the Siliguri Mahakuma Parishad in October this year.
"Siliguri showed our turnaround. We have to spread this message to each and everyone in the state. We have to fight and bring back the Left Front government to provide good governance to the people," Mishra said.
Attacking Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Mishra who is also the Leader of Opposition in state Assembly said, "When tea workers are dying in north Bengal, she is playing tennis. When there was a flood in the state, she was visiting Thames river in London."

The CPI(M) leader was referring to Banerjee getting tips about playing tennis from ace player Sania Mirza during an exhibition match in Kolkata recently. The TMC president had gone to visit London in July when the state faced flood.

He also criticised Banerjee's oft-quoted allegation against the previous government's debt burden.
"She has one refrain from the very beginning: Left Front has left a legacy of debt burden. But the reality is that she is spending crores of rupees in giving out doles to clubs.
"I have demanded to know several times from where the money is coming. But I did not get it. The records are there for everything the Left Front government had done. But she is singing one tune only: Left Front's debt burden," he observed.

Mishra also wondered what benefits the people are getting from "the buildings called super-speciality hospitals" in the state, saying the cost of medicare facilities was soaring everyday.
Banerjee recently inaugurated a super-speciality hospital in Nadia district, but there is an allegation that the hospital was opened without arranging for infrastructure.