TC submitted ‘false’ list of killed workers to PM: CPM

CPM claimed that the list submitted to PM by Trinamool included names of a prominent Maoist,a CPM leader and a two-and-a-half year old boy.

The CPI(M) on Tuesday accused Trinamool Congress of submitting a “false” list of its workers allegedly killed by Left activists in West Bengal to the Prime Minister,claiming that it included names of a prominent Maoist,a CPI(M) leader and a two-and-a-half year old boy.

“They (TC) seem to have drawn a lesson from the BJP which,after the Babri Masjid demolition,had claimed a large number of ‘kar sevaks’ had been killed. Many of them were later found to be alive,” CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury told reporters in New Delhi.

Noting that a TC delegation led by its chief and Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee had submitted a list of 83 of their activists allegedly killed by the CPI(M) to the Prime Minister,he said nine of them had been identified.

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While one Asit Sarkar was a known Maoist,another,Yasin Ali Paik,was “actually a child of two and a half years” who died of chronic illness,he said.

The name of CPI(M) activist Shankar Biswas,whose condolence meeting was attended by prominent Marxist leaders,figured in the TC list. One Mohd Alam and another Avijit Saha were allegedly killed by TC activists,he claimed.

“We are further investigating the false list submitted by Mamata. We think there are more such cases. All this canard (about CPI(M) attacking TC) is based on fabrication only to justify the patronage given by TC to Maoists and attacks they are mounting on us,” Yechury said.