Congress accuses West Bengal government of misrule

June 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress Friday said the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), which had alleged "semi-fascist" attacks on its cadres in West Bengal, has been the real perpetrator of unprecedented violence in the state for more than two decades. "If at all violence has been perpetrated in West Bengal, it has been by the left party and the workers of the Congress and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) have been at the receiving end of the this violence," Congress spokesperson Manish Tewari told reporters.

May 29th, 2009 KOLKATA - With the opposition Trinamool Congress, now part of the central government, having said it would oppose the Nayachar chemical hub project, West Bengal's ruling Left Front government Friday said it had not received any notice yet from the central government to scrap it. "The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government had given us the green signal to set up the Nayachar project.

May 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Trinamool Congress Thursday demanded the imposition of president's rule in West Bengal, alleging there was complete breakdown of the constitutional machinery and people had lost confidence in the Left Front government there. 'The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)-led Left Front government has to come to an end in West Bengal.

May 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Ramesh Chennithala, the chief architect of the Congress' spectacular victory in Kerala in the Lok Sabha polls, has asked Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee to return to the party to launch a joint fight against the Marxists in West Bengal and Kerala. The Congress won 13 of Kerala's 20 Lok Sabha seats, up from zero in the 2004 elections, leaving the Communist Party of India-Marxist with just four.

May 19th, 2009 AGARTALA - The Congress will apply the 'Bengal model and strategies' in Tripura to oust the Left Front government from this northeastern state, party leaders said here Tuesday. 'Due to our organisational weakness, we failed to enlighten the people about the misrule, corruption, terrorism and double standards of the ruling Left Front in Tripura and hence party candidates have suffered a defeat in the Lok Sabha polls,' the state's leader of opposition Ratan Lal Nath told reporters.

May 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Alleging that many polling booths were 'forcibly captured' by Trinamool Congress activists, the state's ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Thursday demanded re-polling in 50 voting stations in West Bengal. The CPI-M said here that it has submitted a memorandum to the Election Commission.

May 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Alleging that many polling booths were 'forcibly captured' by Trinamool Congress activists, the state's ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Thursday demanded re-polling in 50 voting stations in West Bengal. The CPI-M said here that it has submitted a memorandum to the Election Commission.

April 14th, 2009 KOLKATA - The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) faces a tough fight in the Lok Sabha elections but would get a majority of seats in West Bengal, the party's general secretary Prakash Karat said here Tuesday. 'We will have a tough battle in the elections, but we have faced situations in the past when the opposition had virtually come together without an alliance,' Karat told reporters in response to the Congress and Trinamool Congress joining hands in the state.

April 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - It was an unusual sight. Residents of South Kolkata were startled to find hundreds of Mamata Banerjees walking in a procession, canvassing for votes for the Trinamool Congress chief.

April 8th, 2009 KOLKATA - Continuing its sharp attack on estranged ally Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), the Congress Wednesday said the Left Front ruled in West Bengal was the 'most misruled' in the country. Two days after state Congress chief Pranab Mukherjee accused West Bengal's Left Front government of failing to provide basic amenities, All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary K.

April 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A day after the Congress party attacked the Left over its three decades of 'misrule' in West Bengal, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Monday refuted the claims and said the Congress was using 'selective statistics' for political gain. CPI-M politburo member Brinda Karat Monday lashed out at senior Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee, who released the party's report card that showed that the levels of hunger, poverty and unemployment, along with the crime rate, had gone up in West Bengal.

March 18th, 2009 KOLKATA - Activists of Trinamool Congress and Congress party organised a yagna here for the success of the alliance of these two parties in the ensuing elections to the Lok Sabha. This was consequent to the finalisation of the tie-up and sharing of seats between the two parties in West Bengal.

March 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Congress Party will contest 14 out of 42 seats of West Bengal, where as its ally the Trinamool Congress (TC) will contest from 28 seats. Announcing the seat sharing agreement, AICC in-charge of West Bengal K Keshav Rao that they have entered into a seat sharing pact with the TC with the objective of ending the over 30 years of misrule of the CPI-M, which has shattered the economy of West Bengal.

March 13th, 2009 KOLKATA - Happy over the seat adjustment with the Congress Party in West Bengal for the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls, Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee today took the poll fervor one step ahead by appealing to all regional parties across the country to forsake the CPI (M) and not join the purported Third Front. Banerjee said the CPI (M) had a 32-year history of misrule and bloodshed in West Bengal and all those regional parties and friends of friends who had supported the movement of the farmers in Nandigram should take cognizance of this fact before joining hands with the Left Front.

March 7th, 2009 KOLKATA - Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) senior leader L.K. Advani Friday said the Congress and the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) have an 'unwritten agreement' in West Bengal and in national politics.