CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury accused the TC of "protecting, patronising and using" the Maoists to mount attack on CPI(M) workers.
As Trinamool Congress (TC) demanded sending a central team to West Bengal following intermittent political clashes, the CPI(M) today said such an exercise would only prove Maoists' "nexus" with Mamata Banerjee's party.
"Send a central team. It will only prove what we have been saying about the Maoist-Trinamool nexus," CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury said, when asked about TC demand that a home ministry team be sent to the state to assess the situation.
Accusing the TC of "protecting, patronising and using" the Maoists to mount attack on CPI(M) workers, he said their "political gameplan" unfolding in Bengal was to create anarchy and violence, use it to impose central rule and hold elections under it "so that they can manipulate the elections".
Maintaining that Trinamool Congress was adopting similar tactics in various parts of the state, he said the plan was to organise public meetings at different places.
"Under the garb of being TC activists, Maoists would enter the area, stay back and later mount attacks on our people", Yechury claimed, adding that 200 CPI(M) workers have been killed so far.
Asked about TC claims that 190 of their activists were also killed, he said, "This is absolutely baseless. We have been challenging them to come out with lists of those they claim to be their activists."
"While, we have identified all our cadres and supporters killed and submitted the lists to appropriate authorities, Trinamool has not been forthcoming. Anyone can go and verify the facts," the CPI(M) leader said. Taking a dig at Congress, Yechury said, "We want to ask the Congress how long will the UPA continue with the contradiction that while the prime minister says Maoist problem was the gravest threat to internal security, ministers in his own Cabinet would protect and patronise them."
"The longer it continues, the greater is the danger to our democratic ethos and polity," the Marxist leader said.
His remarks came after the two parties had verbal exchanges in Lok Sabha, leading to adjournment of the House for an hour.
Referring to the anniversary of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, Yechury said fighting terror should neither be "communalised nor politicised. Both undermine the fight against terror, which is a non-negotiable fight."
He said it was "absolutely inhuman" that compensation to the victims of the terror strike were yet to be disbursed and sought steps to enhance coordination between various agencies to flight terror.
The CPI(M) leader said the government had promised that it would revisit the two anti-terror laws; one on unlawful activities prevention and the other to create the Federal Investigation Agency to take into account the concerns of state governments.
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