Mamata Banerjee 'softening' stand against RSS, PM Modi to salvage 'corrupt-criminal syndicate': CPI(M)

The latest editorial of People's Democracy has quoted Ms. Banerjee's statements at press conferences and said that she "has been making some new discoveries recently".

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] has lashed out at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, alleging that she has "softened" her stand against the BJP, RSS and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in an attempt to "salvage the corrupt-criminal syndicate the Trinamool Congress (TMC) has become."

The latest editorial of the party mouthpiece People's Democracy has quoted Ms. Banerjee's statements at press conferences and said that she "has been making some new discoveries recently".

“Finding virtue in the RSS and in Narendra Modi signals desperation on the part of the TMC supremo to somehow salvage the corrupt-criminal syndicate the TMC has become.”

"However, such dalliance with the Sangh-BJP combine should not come as a surprise. The rise of the Trinamool Congress as an anti-Communist force in West Bengal is a record punctuated by alliances with the BJP including Mamata Banerjee being a Cabinet Minister in the Vajpayee government," it said.

The Left party's attack on the TMC chief comes as it is seeking to reclaim the political turf it lost to the BJP in West Bengal where the saffron party has emerged as the principal Opposition.

The editorial goes on to quote Ms. Banerjee as saying at a press conference that the RSS "'was not that bad".