Mamata warns TMC leaders, workers against anti-party activity

Kharagpur Beset with rising group rivalries and airing of individual opinions by some party leaders Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today issued a strong warning to the leaders against antiparty activities reminding them that no individual is above the partyWe will not accept any antiparty activity If the party is not there the individual is nonexistent she said addressing a party workers meeting here in West Midnapur districtBanerjees strong reaction is because of some party leaders singing different tunes recently on some issues and reports of group rivalries in some constituenciesTrinamool Congress MP Sugato Bose recently went on record saying The culprits in the financial fraud Saradha chit fund scam whoever they may be have to be brought to book through the legal process as poor people have been dupedTo give another instance on the sidelines of the convocation of Presidency University Bose had said the people should have faith in the Judiciary as the court would take the right decisionBoses comment caused an embarassment to the party at a time when the TMC supremo had launched a scathing attack against the Narendra Modi government and the CBI terming the arrest of state transport minister Madan Mitra in the Saradah scam as an outcome of political vendettaShe had also directed her MPs to wear black badges and shawls and to protest during the justconcluded winter session of ParliamentTwo days ago state panchayat minister Subrata Mukherjee backed a Jadavpur University graduate who refused to accept her degree and award from Governor K N Tripathi also the Chancellor of the institution during the universitys 59th annual convocation on December 24Another leader and state Consumer Affairs Minister Sadhan Pandey had hinted last Saturday without taking name that Jadavpur University vicechancellor Abhijit Chakrabarti ought to have resignedPandey had said that any person with selfrespect should leave once he realizes that he is unwantedThese acts have raised eyebrows in the party with TMC spokesperson Partha Chatterjee saying that party functionariesshould have expressed their opinions within the partyChatterjee who is the state education minister said yesterday that there was no question of Jadavpur UniversityVCs resignation because CPIM leaders Suryakanta Mishra Biman Bose had made the same demandAt the meeting the Chief Minister attacked the Centre for taking away the states revenue as instalments for debts left behind by the Left Front government and wondered why her government should be made to suffer for what the previous government had doneReferring to the Assam carnage she said Our tribal community bothers and sisters were killed in Assam We register our strong protest She announced on the occasion that the partys Seva Dal organisation would be renamed as Jai Hind Bahini which wouldobserve Netajis birth anniversary on January 23We will create a organisation called Joy Hind Bahini in every block which will be beside people in their times of need she saidTurning her attention to media she said We will not take any steps against any media which are spreading false news people will decide their fate Some medias are now working for the BJP in the state She said The party comes first before personal interests We must defeat money power and media powerManpower is the greatest power Fight against CPMBJP moneypower mediapower The Left parties ran a reign of terror when we came in power we sought for change not revenge she said