The CPI-M today asked the BJP to come clean on the deal with the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) for supporting its candidate Jaswant Singh from the Darjeeling Lok Sabha seat in West Bengal and charged the saffron party with attempting to create unrest in the hills.
"We want to know from BJP on what conditions it enlisted support of the GJM for its Rajya Sabha leader Jaswant Singh to contest from Darjeeling," West Bengal Urban Development Minister Ashok Bhattacharya told reporters here.
Bhattacharya, a prominent CPI-M leader from Siliguri, questioned whether the BJP supported GJM's demand for a separate Gorkhaland by breaking up West Bengal.
"BJP knows that a separate Gorkhaland is not possible. An all-party resolution was passed in the West Bengal Assembly opposing division of the state. How can the BJP go against the resolution?" he asked. Bhattacharya also did not spare the Congress on the issue saying that it had also tried to take the GJM's support. "There was a bid and the highest bidder got the seat," he alleged.