"If you have bad drains, it is because of the CPI(M). Anybody who does not comply with the TC diktat is a CPI(M) agent," Yechury said.
He was commenting on TC leader Mukul Roy's reported statement that the State Election Officer was a CPI(M) agent.
"It (TC's accusations against CPI-M) is now getting boring. The TC does not have any creativity to come up with new excuses for its own failures. It has become bereft of ideas," Yechury said in a tongue-and-cheek remark.
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