"TMC is attacking our workers at various places including Nandigram. Our party offices have been attacked and captured. Panchayat funds are being siphoned off. Shall we accept this? We will see the end of it," the CPIM leader told a Krishak Sabha meeting here near Nandigram.
Admitting that the task ahead was tough, he said, "TMC government has failed to perform in the last 19 months and given false promises. The people are realising it gradually. We have to reach out to all sections of the people."
Recalling the past, the former chief minister reiterated that the previous Left Front government wanted to build another Haldia in Nandigram, but did not go ahead when the people opposed it.
He reiterated that the police did not go to Nandigram to acquire land but to stop unrest and fight Maoists there.
"The people did not believe the presence of Maoists at Nandigram who came from Lalgarh and other states at that time, now they are believing it," he said.
Bhattacharjee said that not 14, but eight people were killed in police firing at Nandigram. Six others were killed in violence, he claimed.
Dubbing the TMC as a party of the rich, he said "party chief Mamata Banerjee did not oppose the policies of the central government when she was union minister."
