Kolkata, May 3 (PTI) Continuing her tirade against the CPI(M) and the Congress over the Saradha chit fund scam, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said that the two parties had a lot to answer for and asked partymen to counter the allegations vigorously.

Continuing her tirade against the CPI(M) and the Congress over the Saradha chit fund scam, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said that the two parties had a lot to answer for and asked partymen to counter the allegations vigorously.
"They (CPI-M) are merrily calling everyone chit fund thief. They themselves have to do some very serious answering about their dubious role during their regime," Banerjee was quoted by a party insider as telling a close door general council meeting of party MPS, MLAs and councillors here.
Ridiculing the CPI(M) for branding many of her party leaders as thieves, the chief minister said "Kunal (Ghosh) is a thief, Tumpai (party MP Srinjay Bose) is a thief, then Mukul is a thief and I myself am also a thief. But you (CPI-M leaders) are all pious."

Party MP Kunal Ghosh against whom Saradha Group chairman Sudipta Sen has brought allegations in a letter to CBI was not present at the meeting.
The CM alleged that the CPI(M) was hand in glove with chit funds and had helped their 'wild growth' in the state, while the Marxist party and the Congress were conspiring against the TMC government.
She directed her partymen to politically tackle the 'malicious campaign'.
"I exhort you to politically counter such malicious campaign by going to the people but not by pushing them into their houses so that they cannot mislead," she said.