The Trinamool Congress continued to fire salvos at the Congress holding it responsible for unleashing a reign of corruption.
Picking up from where Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee left on Friday vowing at a public rally to uproot the Congress both from Delhi and Bengal senior Trinamool leader Saugata Roy on Saturday said both former law and Railway Ministers had mud on their faces.
On whether the Congress had managed to repair some of the damages in the Railway bribery case and the CBI controversy by getting Railway Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal and law Minister Ashwini Kumar to resign, Roy said, “they have resigned a little late without grace and with mud on their face” adding his party had always pursued the issue because it was “against corruption.”
The Chief Minister had on Friday vowed to erase the Congress from Bengal and take all such measures necessary to see the party lose in the general elections.
Meanwhile, in an unrelated development Bengal Panchayat Minister Subrota Mukherjee on Saturday said that the Government would move the Supreme Court if its appeal to throw out the Calcutta High Court order on conducting of panchayat elections fell through in the Division Bench.
On the single Bench order asking the Government to comply with all the directions of the State Election Commission regarding the holding of panchayat elections, Mukherjee said that “even God could not implement the un-implementable order passed by the Court” adding if need be and “if we do not get justice even in the Division Bench we will move the Supreme Court.”
Mukherjee’s statements had implications of inordinately delaying the rural elections, State Congress leadership said.