“The BJP is a friend of the CPM. It will not be seen anywhere in the state to take up people’s causes but whenever election time comes it suddenly appears and jumps in the fray, thus helping the Marxist party to split opposition votes,” Banerjee said at an election rally.
The BJP has a sizeable presence in certain pockets in north Bengal.
Single vote
The Trinamool leader asked the voters not to give a single vote to the BJP which claims itself to be the party for Hindus.
“A single vote for the BJP will mean helping the CPM,” she said, claiming that in the 2009 Lok Sabha election the BJP helped the Left to win the Cooch Behar seat in north Bengal.
“We would have won the seat in 2009 Lok Sabha poll, but we could not do so as the BJP helped the CPM to win it,” she said.
Published 13 April 2011, 17:54 IST