Suvendu Adhikari accuses TMC, Congress of backing Dimagi Naxals

West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday mounted simultaneous attacks on the Congress and the Trinamool Congress for teaming up with the Dimagi Naxals to destabilise the nation.

While he attacked the Congress for keeping double standards — by celebrating victories in Kerala and Tamil Nadu and holding the Election Commission of India (ECI) responsible for the losses it suffers at the hands of the BJP in other States, he accused Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee of “planning sessions with Dimagi Naxals” and urged the security agencies to keep a close watch on her activities.

This came soon after the Trinamool Congress leader and her nephew, Abhishek Banerjee, left for the national Capital to take part in a meeting organised by the constituents of the Indian National Democratic Inclusive Alliance.

“The meeting will focus on national issues including electoral scams... And formulating strategies to streamline a struggle against the corrupt persons who hijacked elections through electoral malpractice,” Banerjee said before leaving for Delhi. He said, “Those who are jumping about this INDI alliance... let me tell them that this alliance is finished,” and “she (Banerjee) is only going to Delhi for a planning session with Dimagi Naxals... Against this context, I would like to alert Delhi Police and central IB to remain on alert and keep a watch on such activities.”

Alleging that the TMC’s only business was to promote naxalites and jihadis, he accused her of delivering azadi slogans. “India has no place for anti-national elements who give slogans for Azadi for Kashmir... So I will appeal to the Delhi Police to keep a watch on her activities, whether she meets such elements or not.”

Taking to social media, he accused Congress of practising double standards regarding “established electoral procedures like the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.”

Alleging that the Congress followed a singular, “shameless doctrine: Heads I win, tails the system is rigged,” the Chief Minister pointed at the tricolor party’s ‘duplicity’ even as he said “in Kerala ... their leaders were all praises for the rigorous SIR process... When the process helps them win, it is celebrated as a triumph of grassroots democracy... When they win: the SIR process is objective, robust, and proof of a thriving democracy. When they lose: The same institutional mechanism suddenly becomes “manipulated,” “flawed”, and targeted.