TIL Desk/National/Kolkata/ West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee called the state’s Congress leaders ‘pygmies’ and reminded them that without the Trinamool Congress, the party cannot function in Delhi. She also accused the Congress of hobnobbing with the Communist Party of India-Marxist to oppose her government.
“The Congress and the CPI-M are one. They are made for each other. It is nothing new. I know how it had extended support to CPI-M,” she told the assembly while replying to a debate on the motion of thanks to the Governor’s address to the house.
“Without us Congress cannot function in Delhi. Let the state Congress leaders ask their party leaders in Delhi,” she said. “The Congress leaders here are pygmies,” she said adding that Sonia Gandhi had congratulated her on Thursday after her party’s victory in the bypolls in West Bengal.
“I too congratulated her (for Congress’ victory in the Rajasthan bypoll),” she said. Congress members staged a walkout in the state assembly along with CPI-M when Banerjee rose to speak.
The Trinamool Congress chief lambasted the Congress,the Left and the Bharatiya Janata Party for overlooking the development ushered in the state by her government and said that they should do ‘constructive criticism’.
“I have to manage with limited funds. The Centre can print notes. But we have no such option. We are facing the legacy of the CPI-M, which had pushed the state into shouldering a huge debt burden,” she said.
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