Lambasting Advani, Basu said, ``He never obeyed the Constitution and is an accused in the Babri Masjid demolition case. It is the country's misfortune that such a person has become India's Home Minister in the 50th year of independence.''

Addressing a meeting here in support of the CPI(M) candidate, for the by-election to the Chanditala Assembly seat, Basu said that the Bharatiya Janata Party Government was `mortally afraid' of the Left Front, and was now trying to disturb it. ``But we have seen lots of threats and withstood semi-fascist terror. The Left Front will not bow down to any threats. We will fight them everywhere, including the Assembly and Parliament,'' he asserted.

Advani could not do anything about the Doda massacre -- when 25 people belonging to two marriage parties were killed, Basu said,adding that the Home Minister was instead busy threatening the Left Front Government. ``Why don't you do something in Jammu and Kashmir where the Pakistani intelligence agency is sponsoring terrorism? After all, you have the atom bomb,'' said Basu, sarcastically.

The veteran Marxist leader said that the BJP in its national agenda for governance had assured that it would give a civilised government. ``Are such threats the sign of good governance?'' Basu asked.

The Vajpayee Government should have tried to strengthen Centre-state relations but it was doing just the opposite, he said.

Describing the law and order situation in West Bengal as the best in the country, the Chief Minister asked the Union Home Minister to inquire how many killings had been committed in Delhi -- where the BJP had its own Government.

Bihar report will be "doctored", fears RJD

PATNA: The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) today took serious exception to Union Home Minister L K Advani's comment on the law and order situation inBihar and said it gave rise to speculation that the proposed report of the Central team would be ``doctored and stage-managed''.

"Advani's statement prior to submission of the report that the law and order situation in Bihar is not good smacks of a foul game. It is a pointer to the fact that the report will be biased and manipulated", RJD spokesman Shakeel Ahmed Khan told reporters.

Charging the BJP-led Government at the Centre with ``subverting the constitution and encouraging'' criminal activities in the state by sending a Central team to assess the situation, Khan said a ``deep-rooted conspiracy was hatched to defame and demoralise'' the Rabri Devi ministry.