Sort out contradiction in Cabinet on Maoist issue: CPM to PC

New Delhi, Oct 31 (PTI) The Communist Party of
India-Marxist (CPI-M) Saturday asked India's Home Minister P
Chidambaram not to make "irrelevant feints" against it on the
Maoist issue but take initiative to sort out the "glaring
contradiction" within the Indian Cabinet on it.
"Evidently, the Home Minister is put in an unenviable
position when a colleague of his in the cabinet takes
positions that are contrary to that of his Ministry and
government," CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat said.
Right from the beginning of joint anti-Maoist operations
in Lalgarh, Indian Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee "has made
known her displeasure and asked for recall of central
paramilitary forces. She had extended support to a front
organisation of the Maoists.
"Another Minister belonging to her party has publicly
admitted to knowing in advance about the Rajdhani train
stoppage," he said.
"It would be better if Chidambaram took the initiative to
sort out this glaring contradiction within the Cabinet and not
make irrelevant feints against the CPI(M)," Karat said.
Karat was responding to Chidambaram's statement that
CPI(M) thought the Maoists were comrades-in-arms in their
fight against "bourgeois" parties like Congress party. "But
now they have realised that they were underestimating the
gravity of the problem," the Home Minister had said Friday.
Observing that it was "surprising" that the Minister had
"chosen to ignore" the history of Naxalite or Maoist movement,
Karat said the Maoists had been "unremittingly hostile" to
CPI(M) since they split in the late 1960s. (More) PTI