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With the UP elections nearing its end, senior Congress leaders in Bengal have sharpened their attack on ally Trinamool Congress for its alleged domineering ways declaring "time has come when the Congress should break free of the shackles of slavery."
While party MPs Adhir Chowdhury and Abu Hasem Khan Chowdhury said the Congress would go it alone in Murshidabad and Malda "without leaving a single seat to the Trinamool Congress which is becoming increasingly arrogant," PCC leaders in Kolkata demanded immediate removal of city Police Commissioner RK Pachnanda for acting as "Trinamool mouthpiece" in the Park Street rape case.
"We cannot take this slavery any more. We have to break free of this shackle and so we have decided to go it alone in the panchayat elections come what may in our districts," Chowdhury said decrying the Trinamool's "domineering ways."
Chowdhury who is an AICC member and the Murshidabad district Congress president said his party would contest all the seats from Murshidabad and would "not allow those involved in back-stabbing us to win a single panchayat."
Khan Chowdhury, the Malda MP, said the Congress had done all the good works in the district and would not allow the "upstarts to take away the cream."
"The party is already prepared to accept any challenge", reminded PCC president Pradip Bhattacharya, saying "one has to remember that the Congress is the only outfit which has votes in each and every block in the country." He said "without the Congress it will never be possible for any party to win or remain in power in Bengal."
Upping the ante further, Congress MP from Raiganj Deepa Dasmunshi demanded immediate removal of Kolkata Police Commissioner RK Pachnanda "who acted as a spokesperson of a political party rather than the top officer of a disciplined police force" in the Park Street rape case.
The police had not only turned a blind eye to the complaints made by a 37-year-old mother of two who was abducted from a night club and raped inside a car on February 5 but Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee also claimed the incident was being blown out of proportion to malign her Government. Pachnanda only repeated the chief ministerial version hours later leading to a hue and cry. Subsequently, the case was cracked and three accused were arrested underscoring the veracity of the complaints made by the victim.
The Congress led long processions on Monday and gheraoed the Park Street Police Station demanding Pachnanda's resignation, apart from an apology from the Chief Minister for making "insensitive statements."
Reacting to the Congress diatribe, Bengal Minister Madan Mitra said it was the Congress which was dependent on the Trinamool and not the other way round.
"We have already asked them to win one seat without a poster of Mamata Banerjee," adding an ally should learn to act, "not like a burden but like an ally in a Government."
While party MPs Adhir Chowdhury and Abu Hasem Khan Chowdhury said the Congress would go it alone in Murshidabad and Malda "without leaving a single seat to the Trinamool Congress which is becoming increasingly arrogant," PCC leaders in Kolkata demanded immediate removal of city Police Commissioner RK Pachnanda for acting as "Trinamool mouthpiece" in the Park Street rape case.
"We cannot take this slavery any more. We have to break free of this shackle and so we have decided to go it alone in the panchayat elections come what may in our districts," Chowdhury said decrying the Trinamool's "domineering ways."
Chowdhury who is an AICC member and the Murshidabad district Congress president said his party would contest all the seats from Murshidabad and would "not allow those involved in back-stabbing us to win a single panchayat."
Khan Chowdhury, the Malda MP, said the Congress had done all the good works in the district and would not allow the "upstarts to take away the cream."
"The party is already prepared to accept any challenge", reminded PCC president Pradip Bhattacharya, saying "one has to remember that the Congress is the only outfit which has votes in each and every block in the country." He said "without the Congress it will never be possible for any party to win or remain in power in Bengal."
Upping the ante further, Congress MP from Raiganj Deepa Dasmunshi demanded immediate removal of Kolkata Police Commissioner RK Pachnanda "who acted as a spokesperson of a political party rather than the top officer of a disciplined police force" in the Park Street rape case.
The police had not only turned a blind eye to the complaints made by a 37-year-old mother of two who was abducted from a night club and raped inside a car on February 5 but Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee also claimed the incident was being blown out of proportion to malign her Government. Pachnanda only repeated the chief ministerial version hours later leading to a hue and cry. Subsequently, the case was cracked and three accused were arrested underscoring the veracity of the complaints made by the victim.
The Congress led long processions on Monday and gheraoed the Park Street Police Station demanding Pachnanda's resignation, apart from an apology from the Chief Minister for making "insensitive statements."
Reacting to the Congress diatribe, Bengal Minister Madan Mitra said it was the Congress which was dependent on the Trinamool and not the other way round.
"We have already asked them to win one seat without a poster of Mamata Banerjee," adding an ally should learn to act, "not like a burden but like an ally in a Government."
