The Centre banned the CPI (Maoist) on the basis of a recommendation from the West Bengal government, a union minister today said.
"The Centre banned the CPI (Maoist) after getting a recommendation from the state government," Union Minister of State Sriprakash Jaiswal told reporters after meeting Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee here.
"The state must have sent a recommendation, written or verbal, to the Centre to ban the CPI (Maoist)," he said, adding "without the state government's recommendation, the Centre does not ban an extremist organisation".
