Fight against black money: Cong questions TMC's credibility

As Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee wanted to don the hat of the "leader of the opposition front against the BJP on the Centre's demonetisation move", the state Congress leadership today questioned her party's credibility and asked it to "come clean" on the Narada and Saradha scandals.
"We have seen news reports that the TMC wants the Congress and the other parties to fight together against the issue of demonetisation. But, It would be wrong to conclude that we need to share the dais with it because we both are opposing the issue," senior Congress leader Somen Mitra said here.

Mitra, a former state Congress chief, said the TMC first needed to make their stand clear on the various corruption charges against some of its leaders.
"First, the TMC needs to come clean on charges of corruption (against its leaders), then they can talk big about black money," he said.
"She (Banerjee) is talking about uniting the opposition against the BJP. But, in Bengal, her party is removing every sign of opposition by poaching on opposition MLAs and public representatives," Mitra alleged.
A few days back, state Congress chief Adhir Chowdhury had mocked the TMC's "crusade" against demonetisation by saying those who lived in glass houses should not throw stones.

"The top to bottom of the TMC is completely drenched in Saradha and Narada scams. We have seen how, on camera, TMC leaders were accepting money. They should not talk much about black money as they have entered into a political match-fixing with the BJP," he had said.

Upping the ante against the BJP, Banerjee on Saturday had said she was not averse to working with arch rival CPI(M) and other opposition parties such as the Congress, SP, BSP to fight against the "anti-people" Modi government which had imposed an "undeclared emergency" on the country.
She even called up CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury and the leaders of other political parties, urging them to put up a "united fight" against the BJP.

"The TMC wants to act as the leader of the opposition front against the BJP. But, they should remember one thing that they are a regional force and they do not have a nationwide acceptability. The opposition front against the BJP can only be led by a national party such as the Congress," a senior Congress leader said.
MP and former state Congress chief Pradip Bhattacharya and Mitra today wrote to party vice-president Rahul Gandhi, urging him to launch a "massive political movement" throughout the country highlighting the "sufferings" of the common people due to the Centre's demonetisation move.