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Advani behind bifurcation, says Trinamool

KOLKATA AUG. 7. The Trinamool Congress said today that the Railway Minister, Nitish Kumar, had taken the ``unprincipled'' decision of Eastern Railway bifurcation ``at the direct instance of the Deputy Prime Minsiter, L.K. Advani'', who, it alleged, was ``enjoying extra-constitutional powers".

``The Union Cabinet had surrendered to this unprincipled decision taken at the direct instance of Mr. Advani, votary of undivided India, who is enjoying extra-constitutional powers,'' a resolution adopted by the party here said.

The resolution moved by city Mayor Subrata Mukherjee in the presence of the Trinamool chief, Mamata Banerjee, said: ``The Indian Railways is a symbol of national unity and its bifurcation is a blow to that unity.''

The programme was organised at the Town Hall to mark ``Rakhibandhan'' festival introduced by Rabindranath Tagore at the same venue to protest the partition of Bengal in 1905.

Ms. Banerjee said, ``the dangerous game of division should be stopped immediately. We will never accept this bifurcation''.

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