If Trinamool detects real injustice, we will take responsibility: Mamata Banerjee hits back at Congress, BJP

Kolkata: With the West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress facing fire from the opposition parties over the Kolkata flyover collapse incident that killed 26 people, chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday asserted that her government takes responsibility and acts in instances of “real injustice”. [caption id=“attachment_2709290” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  File image. PTI[/caption] “Our government is the common man’s government. It will never do anything to burden the common man. Our government is not CPI-M or Congress. We have the capacity to label injustice as injustice, but if somebody lies and says ’this is injustice’, then we do not accept that,” she said. “If Trinamool Congress sees that there has been real injustice, then it takes responsibility and corrects it. But if someone lies and makes something seem wrong, then we do not believe in that action,” said Banerjee at a poll rally in West Midnapore ahead of the first phase of polls on Monday. At least 26 people died while many others are still in hospital, some of them injured seriously, following the collapse of the under-construction Vivekananda Road flyover in north Kolkata’s market area Posta on Thursday. The Bharatiya Janata Party sought a CBI probe, calling the incident an “act of fraud protected by the West Bengal government” while Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, during his visit to Bengal on Saturday, alleged that Trinamool leaders were involved in the construction of the collapsed flyover. Banerjee hit out at Gandhi. “Some leaders from Delhi, who do not love Bengal, come down to the state during elections all of a sudden and go on talking in an unbridled fashion,” she said, adding, “Do not listen to them. They have always ignored Bengal.” Firing salvos at the CPI-M and Congress over their tie-up, Banerjee said both the parties have no work except to spread lies and canards. “Congress has no capability on its own. It is going to all states and forging alliances and strengthening its base,” she said. She also took potshots at a local media house for participating in the nexus and misleading people. “Their owner is the chairman of this alliance. Reporters are not to blame. Sometimes that person (the owner) goes to Delhi and falls at the feet of BJP, the Congress and sometimes CPI-M. That person wants to acquire land from farmers through guns,” said Banerjee.