CPI(M) today asked all political parties not to play politics over floods in south Bengal and said the government had been warned about possibility of rise in water level in the state due to rains during Durga Puja.
"No one should try to play politics over the issue. The government should speed up the process of providing relief to the affected people," Politburo member Surjya Kanta Mishra said.
Claiming that he had cautioned the state government about floods if the water level rises in neighbouring Jharkhand and Bihar, Mishra said he had cautioned state Chief Secretary Sanjoy Mitra and state Industries minister Partha Chatterjee about it.
"I had personally called the Chief Secretary and Partha Chatterjee about the outcome if water level rises in Jharkhand and Bihar due rains as an outcome of Cyclone Phalin in Odisha. I had told them to take precautionary measures last week, but they didn't pay heed. They were busy with Durga Puja," Mishra told reporters.
"They are running the government for the past two and half years and should have known the consequences of the rise of water level in a dam, because a dam has to release excess water, otherwise it would burst," he added.
Mishra also rubbished the claims by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee that the floods in West Bengal was "man-made."
"We don't believe in such man-made floods and don't support such statements," he said.
