Monday, January 2 2006 10:30 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Kolkata: Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee yesterday (Jan 01, 2006) termed as 'baseless' the CPI(M)'s charges that her party had links with Maoists who killed a CPI(M) leader and his wife at Bundwan in West Bengal's Purulia district as a "revenge of the mass killings in Chhota Angaria".

"All these are baseless. The Maoists threat and attacks are manifestations of an internal conflict in the party ranks of the CPI(M). The Maoists believe in left politics and ideology and are an offshoot of the CPI(M)," Banerjee told sources here.

Terming the Maoist threat a "class conflict between haves and have nots," Banerjee said, "nowadays only the CPI(M) cadres in the rural areas fall in the class of haves and the rest are have nots".

About the leaflets left by the Maoists after killing the CPI(M) leader Rabindranath Kar that the act was a 'revenge of the mass killing in Chota Angaria' in Bankura district sometimes back, Banerjee said, "what is the basis of these leaflets? "It is unbecoming of a political party to bring accusations against us on the basis of these", she countered.

A number of TC supporters were allegedly massacred by CPI(M) cadres in the Chota Angaria incident.

Noting that the CBI, which was investigating the Chota Angaria incident, had accused local CPI(M) leaders for 'shielding' the culprits, the TC leader said, "why are they not allowing CBI to act freely"?