New Delhi:
On Thursday, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee went a step further, she demanded Assembly polls in October in West Bengal and dragged Home Minister P Chidambaram into it.
On Wednesday, she claimed the elections would be held three months after civic polls, to be held shortly.
"I have written a letter to the honorable Prime Minister. We have met several times also with Home Minister. Not only me, all our MPs, other central ministers and other Opposition leaders also want. It is not just us. Other political parties have also said the same thing," said Mamata Banerjee, Trinamool.
Home Ministry sources in Delhi deny there have been any talks about early Bengal polls between Mamata and Chidambaram and suggested she may have raised the matter with another minister.
In the meantime, the Left is fuming.
"When she has said she definitely wants polls in October, this is her political tactical line. Her political line exposes she doesn't believe in democracy, Constitution and elections, she wants a jungle raj," said Md Salim, CPM.
The Left may fume, the Home Ministry may go into denial mode. But Mamata has named the pound of flesh she wants from UPA 2. And she has sent out indubitable signals to Delhi about it.
When the Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily was asked on the legality of holding early polls he said, "Well that is her wish, but everything has a procedure and as far as I know, unless the state government asks for early elections, you can't have one."
On Wednesday, she claimed the elections would be held three months after civic polls, to be held shortly.
"I have written a letter to the honorable Prime Minister. We have met several times also with Home Minister. Not only me, all our MPs, other central ministers and other Opposition leaders also want. It is not just us. Other political parties have also said the same thing," said Mamata Banerjee, Trinamool.
Home Ministry sources in Delhi deny there have been any talks about early Bengal polls between Mamata and Chidambaram and suggested she may have raised the matter with another minister.
In the meantime, the Left is fuming.
"When she has said she definitely wants polls in October, this is her political tactical line. Her political line exposes she doesn't believe in democracy, Constitution and elections, she wants a jungle raj," said Md Salim, CPM.
The Left may fume, the Home Ministry may go into denial mode. But Mamata has named the pound of flesh she wants from UPA 2. And she has sent out indubitable signals to Delhi about it.
When the Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily was asked on the legality of holding early polls he said, "Well that is her wish, but everything has a procedure and as far as I know, unless the state government asks for early elections, you can't have one."
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