Brinda Karat said, "We are against the dictatorship displayed by the TMC during the Panchayat elections of Bengal that claimed 60 lives. It is a reality of West Bengal."
An NIA official reportedly confirmed to a media house that case diaries are yet to be handed over to the agency despite SC's refusal to stay the HC order to transfer the probe to NIA.
The cadre of Marxists and Trinamool is different, but both are similar with only one difference. Corruption during CPM’s regime was limited and it was the party that indulged in corruption. But in Trinamool's case, corruption is all-pervasive from the top leadership to the lower rungs.
The TMC party workers are said to have assaulted the BJP worker and urinated on him after he asked for water to drink. The victim was then admitted to a local hospital late on Friday evening.
The situation in West Bengal remains tense as the counting of votes for the three-tier panchayat polls, which was marred with unprecedented violence, is underway
The SC noted that the single judge bench of Calcutta High Court held that there is no reason to prevent the investigation being carried out by the ED against Abhishek Banerjee considering the ramifications of the matter.