Gap between Left, Trinamool Congress narrowing: Buddhadeb

Asked if the expulsion of minority leader Adbur Rezzak Mollah from the CPI-M would affect its poll prospect, the veteran leader said, “I don't think so. It will help improve the health of the party. The communist party should be a disciplined party based on ideology.”

Commenting on the performance of the TMC government, the former chief minister said, “It is zero on all fronts, be it industry, agriculture, law and order, health or education.  No road, no power station, no bridge, no hospital. Nothing is happening. Only there are stone-laying ceremonies.

It is ridiculous,” he said.

Raising the issue of atrocities on women in the state, he said, “No woman in Bengal is secure and safe.

It is a serious situation. I tell you during our tenure too there were crimes against womem. But during our tenure we had made sure that law takes its own course and the criminals are punished.