Saturday, January 7 2006 18:32 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Kolkata: Hours after a district court directed Kolkata police to arrest Mamata Banerjee and some others by February 27 in connection with a 12 year-old criminal case, the firebrand Trinamool Congress supremo said she will not surrender under any circumstance.

"I will not surrender, all these are part of Communist Party of India-Marxist's (CPI-M) conspiracy," Banerjee said at a crowded press conference, asserting, "There was no question of surrendering since we have not committed any crime."

Banerjee warned CPI(M) against 'daring' to take any such move which might trigger law and order problem and that there should not be any 'hide and seek game' in arresting her if the authorities thought it fit to do so.

"We are not killers. We had launched a political movement (referring to the 1994 rally at Barasat during her tenure as the state Youth Congress chief). It was our right to initiate democratic movement in the interest of the people."

Two persons were killed in police firing during the rally by Banerjee-led Youth Congress at Barasat, the district headquarters of neighbouring North 24 Parganas in 1994.