Kolkata: Taking advantage of the widening rift between West Bengal's ruling Left Front major CPI(M) and partner RSP, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today renewed her call to form a secular democratic front, saying her party wanted RSP to head such a front.

"A secular democratic front is necessary to replace the oppressive rule of the CPI(M) we would like the RSP to head it. Trinamool Congress would be a partner of such a front," Banerjee said at a meeting in Tollygunj here. The recent "recapture" of Nandigram by CPI(M) cadre has created fissures between the Marxist party on one hand and the RSP and Forward Bloc who are critical of the Front's major's defence of the action.

After the Calcutta High Court on Friday declared the March 14 police firing at Nandigram as "unconstitutional and unjustifiable," CPI(M) leaders yesterday launched a verbal attack on the judiciary, Governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi and the media at a public rally here. "The way the CPI(M) organised the killing, rape and arson in Nandigram and its leaders defended the heinous crime at the rally using derogatory language against the judiciary, the Governor and the media, only shows that the CPI(M)'s power is going to set and a new rise of democratic forces is imminent," the TC chief said.

"Use of such low language confirms that the CPI(M) leaders have lost their senses and the party's claims of a new sunrise at Nandigram would prove wrong. The CPI(M) will suffer a sunset," Banerjee added.

Source : PTI