The CPI(M) on Sunday renewed its attack o the BJP and the Trinamool Congress asking the people of Bengal to remain alert against their “joint venture politics.”

Addressing a massive rally at the historic Brigade Parade Ground --- organized by the party’s youth wing Democratic Youth Federation of India --- in Kolkata CPI(M) politburo member and State secretary Md Salim said that both Mamata Banerjee and Narendra Modi were hands-in-gloves which got exposed when she was “specially invited for dinner by the Centre in the G20 meeting.”

The rally apparently considered as a Marxist measure to launch the CPI(M)’s rising face Meenakshi Mukherjee considered a speaker par excellence as the “captain” of the party in the coming elections saw both Salim and Mukherjee going all guns blazing even as the former referred to a Calcutta High Court judge’s recent remarks that TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee’s wealth had started increasing post 2013.

The rally was held at the end of a 50-day-long Insaaf Yatra covering about 2,900 km by the DYFI workers led by Mukherjee.

“Even the High Court observed how the TMC leader’s wealth skyrocketed after 2013 … and remember who has been in power in the Centre from 2014 till now … so it is clear that in the patronage of the BJP-led Centre the TMC leader’s made their ill-gotten money that runs into thousands of crores in Bengal,” Salim said adding how “the tainted TMC leaders like Suvendu Adhikari were taking shelter in the BJP.”

Both the TMC and BJP were the two complementary weapons prepared by the RSS, he said.

Laying stress on a “hidden BJP-TMC camaraderie” Salim said how Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee who “…never attends the Niti Ayog meetings rushed to Delhi to attend G20 dinner neither Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge whose name she proposed as PM candidate nor Opposition Leader Adhir Chowdhury were invited by the Government … and quite coolly only the TMC’s disposable leaders are being arrested and jailed while the Chief Minister’s family members are spared by the central agencies.”

Attacking the Centre in her part, Meenakshi Mukherjee --- often called by critics as Left’s answer to Mamata Banerjee --- said, “this is a government which is silently selling out the BSNL, the Indian Railways … water bodies, lands and many other government industries painstakingly created for years by public money … they promised job but failed to create them and crores of youth are unemployed

“the TMC here is looting the common people through its scams … they are stealing land, stone, sand, coal, cattle and even teachers’ jobs … and when it comes to elections these two parties try to communally polarize the atmosphere by playing religion card … the youth will have to be cautious about their gameplan.”