Mamata Banerjee alleges rivals' plot to eliminate her

KOLKATA: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Wednesday that the CPM had joined hands with Maoists to kill her. "CPI (M) has realised now that it would be impossible for them to return to power in West Bengal and that is why the Marxists have joined hands with the Maoists to kill me to come back to power," the chief minister told a Trinamool Congress gathering at Chandpara in North 24-Parganas district.

She also said that she had specific intelligence reports which suggested that "a murder plot" was hatched during her visit to Kamduni village in Barasat on Monday.

The chief minister also complained against two television channels which had provoked the Kamduni villagers to shout slogans against her adding that "It was the CPI (M) which had used the two channels to gain political mileage over the Kamduni girl's death". She also alleged that "CPI (M), Maoists, Congress party and BJP have all joined hands to conspire against my government."

"But I can assure you that these forces would not be able to do any harm to me so long as the people of Bengal are with me. So long as Ma, Mati and Manush (Mother, land and people) are with me, nobody can touch my hair," the chief minister said at the rally.