People's Democracy

HE CPI(M)’s state secretary, Anil Biswas, has described as opportunistic the effort being made by Trinamul Congress leader Ms Mamata Banerjee to forge an electoral alliance with the separatist Kamtapuri movement. Speaking to INN at Muzaffar Ahmad Bhavan in Kolkata, Biswas recalled that Ms Banerjee had vigorously denied the accusation when he had pointed out that links existed between the Trinamul and the separatist outfit. Biswas wondered as to the Trinamul leader’s possible response, in the aftermath of her much-publicised meeting with a Kamtapuri leader at the Rail Bhavan in Delhi.

Biswas said that Ms Mamata Banerjee’s insistence on getting a dialect recognised as a language had dangerous portents since there were more than a hundred such dialects, with their variations, in Bengal.

Later, releasing a booklet published by the CPI(M) state committee, entitled Build Up A United Movement against the Elements of Separatism and Terror, Biswas pointed out that neither linguists nor the people belonging to the Rajvanshi community had ever claimed that they had a separate language and/or script called the Rajvanshi.