Commenting on the CPM’s latest salvo threatening to withdraw support from the UPA government if the latter goes ahead with Indo-US nuclear deal, Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee said: “They are all acting. Both the Congress and the CPM have a secret understanding between them, hence the two parties do not try to expand their political base beyond their areas of influence.”

“After the election they will again form an alliance and try to form the government,” she added.

She also termed CPM as China’s stooge and said: “CPM is more committed to China than to India. For them, the interest of China comes first.” 

The Congress was also on Banerjee’s firing line as the party was termed bankrupt.

“They are being blackmailed by the CPM but they are not doing anything,” she said.

“The country’s market is full of goods from China and it is threatening our entrepreneurs but the government has turned a blind eye. They do not want to antagonise China for fear of losing support of the CPM,’ Banerjee added.