Kolkata: Trinamool Congress (TC) supremo Mamta Bannerjee on September 23 accused the CPM (Communist Party of India-Marxist) of 'engineering violence' at Keshpur in Midnapore West district to divert the people's attention from various issues including mismanagement of West Bengal's economy by the Left Front government.

Banerjee told reporters in Kolkata that her party workers were "attacked by CPM cadres when they were returning to their villages on September 22 after two years from relief camps in Midnapore.

Two bodies were recovered and seven TC workers are still missing," she claimed.

Banerjee who had a talk with Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani on this issue on September 22, said that she has sent details to the Centre during the day.

Stating that a TC legislature team led by party Chief Whip in the Assembly Sobhandev Chattopadhyay left for Keshpur to make an on-the-spot-study of the situation there, she said the next course of action would be decided after their return.

She alleged that the police were arresting TC workers for speaking up against the failures of the CPM-led government.

Meanwhile, state Congress general secretary Manas Bhuniya demanded that the state government should recover all illegal arms in the area to restore peace.

PTI