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Addressing an election rally for Left Front candidates in the city, Yechury said he had met Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Thursday in Delhi and submitted to him the transcript of Banerjee’s election speech wherein she had claimed that efforts were on to incite communal violence in the city’s Muslim pockets. “I told the union home minister that such statements are highly irresponsible and harmful for communal harmony. He assured me that the UPA government will not allow any communal disharmony and would support the state government in maintaining communal peace and amity,” the CPM leader said.
“I then told him that if you really want to maintain communal harmony in West Bengal, then remove the Trinamool Congress from the Union Cabinet,” he said.
Pointing out that Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel had sought to resign owning moral responsibility of the air crash in Mangalore, Yechury alleged despite a number of railway accidents all over the country in the past one year, Banerjee never cared to visit the spots. “You have seen that after the stampede in New Delhi railway station, she had held the passengers responsible.” Yechury accused Banerjee of shedding crocodile tears for Muslims and said the West Bengal government would implement 10 per cent job reservation for Muslims under OBC quota in keeping with the recommendations of the Ranganath Mishra Commission.
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If Mamata's statement on possibility of riot is to be believed, her assurance for making Kolkata London and N.Bemgal Switzerland should also be believed.So both are unmitigated lie.However,I'm all praise for mamata for her plain living and high thinking.Her high thinking is evident in her ardent desire for making CM of WB and plain living in her not using expensive and luxurious railway saloon that she's entitled to as railway minister even under compelling situation.