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‘Mamata, Maoists have ganged up’

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Kolkata: “Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee and the Maoists have ganged up to oppose the Left Front government from implementing its industrial development goals, and the Tata Motors small car project at Singur has been targeted to serve the purpose,” Prakash Karat, general secretary, Communist Party of India (Marxist), said on Wednesday. He was addressing a seminar organised here by the party’s student wing, the Students Federation of India.

“A motley group of extreme Leftists [Maoists] and a right-wing political party cannot derail the mission of industrial development in West Bengal and the Left Front parties will fight back such powers politically.”

He described them as forces that were “traditionally against land and agricultural reforms in the State.” The Left parties had to mobilise common people to “fight this political battle against the forces which do not want the State to move along the path of industrialisation.”

Mr. Karat said Left-ruled West Bengal, Tripura and Kerala showed that agricultural and economic development was possible even without adoption of the neo-liberal economic policy of the West.

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