Yechury to raise morphed pic issue in Parliament

CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury today said he will raise the issue of morphed picture used by Trinamool Congress in the Parliament session beginning tomorrow.
"I will raise the morphed picture issue in Parliament. Our party has already lodged a police complaint in this connection in Delhi," Yechury said at an election meeting here in Hooghly district.
Senior CPI(M) leader Prakash Karat filed a complaint at Mandir Marg police station in New Delhi against TMC MP and its national spokesperson Derek O'Brien for allegedly using a morphed picture of his being offered sweets by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh.
Following a press conference by O'Brien in Kolkata, TMC yesterday posted two videos and six pictures on the party's website. The party, however, removed the morphed picture from its website after the controversy started.

A day after ruling Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee renewed her commitment to return land to "unwilling" farmers in Singur, the Left Front and Congress jointly held an election meeting here.
Like the morphed picture, everything is fake in TMC, Yechury alleged.

Referring to Banerjee's speeches here yesterday, Yechury said, "She has said the land is in her hand. This is not true. If it is so, why is there a litigation? And if she has the power to return the land, why she did not do it?"
Tata Motors had shifted their Nano car plant in 2008 to Gujarat from Singur in the face of Banerjee's fierce movement against forcible farmland acquisition.

After coming to power in 2011, the Mamata Banerjee government enacted a law that allowed it to reclaim 400 acres land given to Tata Motors. The Act was, however, challenged by the Tatas and matter is now pending in Supreme Court.
"People have seen the Mamata Banerjee government... It has lost (the election)," the CPI(M) general secretary said.
West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee president Adhir Chowdhury, who shared the dais with Yechury, in his address alleged that no industrialisation has taken place during the rule of TMC.
"The government is being run by anti-socials.... It has been looted," Chowdhury claimed.