Kolkata, Mar 26 : Targeting Trinamool Congress chief and Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee who is pitching for a political change in West Bengal, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today said the state cannot be run in a "whimsical" way like the Railways is being run now.
"Railways is being run in a whimsical way. It cannot go on like this. With this kind of administration, the state cannot be administered," Bhattacharjee, who is leading the ruling Left Front in its bid to eighth consecutive win, said.
The two zilla parishads of East Midnapore and South 24 Parganas headed by TC had failed to perform. "Does the state want this kind of administration?" he told a TV channel here.
In an obvious reference to Banerjee's announcement of setting up a number of Railway projects in the state, he asked, "Where is the fund? Where is the detail project report?"
Ridiculing the performance of the six ministers of state at the Centre belonging to TC, he said, "They can be termed as non-performing assets. They have not done anything for the state".Referring to the Congress-TC alliance in the state in the coming Assembly polls, Bhattacharjee said CPI-M knew that two parties would forge a tie.
"But politics is not arithmetic. Two and two may be zero in politics," he remarked and alleged that some 'foreign forces' wanted to stall the Left. He, however, did not elaborate.
Bhattacharjee said the CPI-M was undeterred by the slogan of change and had identified its mistakes. "We have learnt a lesson from our defeat in the last Lok Sabha poll. We have taken up a rectification drive and the process is on. We have cautioned our party workers not to meddle into everything." PTI
