“After winning a few more seats in the Lok Sabha elections, the Trinamool Congress has become restless. They want to capture everything immediately from school committee to party office. I warn Trinamool leaders not to go that way,” the CPM leader said at a public meeting at the Raslila Maidan here.

“Trinamool is behaving as if they have conquered the world. They want to do whatever they like. But they cannot do that. The Left workers will give a fitting reply to them if Trinamool continued to tread this path,” he said.

He said state’s development would be stalled if peace was disturbed.

Bhattacharjee used the platform in this north Bengal town to make it clear that the state government would not allow separate Kamtapur, Greater Cooch Behar or Gorkhaland.

He urged those demanding Kamtapur or Greater Cooch Behar to come for dialogue and said he has instructed district magistrate to talk to those who wanted to come back to the mainstream.

Urges Centre to swap ‘enclaves’ with Bangla

Meanwhile, the CM also urged the Centre to talk to Bangladesh to resolve the problem of enclaves in adverse possession of the two countries.

“Since the time of Jyoti Basu, we have been taking up the issue of these enclaves with the Centre but nothing has been done. The Centre should talk to the friendly Sheikh Hasina government in Bangladesh to resolve the problem,” Bhattacharjee said.

“Chaotic conditions now prevail in those enclaves. It is difficult to ascertain citizenship of the people living in those enclaves,” the CM said as a section of the crowd waved placards demanding the enclaves be exchanged.

In 1974, both India and Bangladesh had agreed to exchange the enclaves or at least provide easy access to the enclaves but since then, there has been little progress.

Talks between the two countries on the issue resumed in 2001 but lack of a concrete timeframe has relegated the issue to the backburner.