Kolkata: Alleging that Left Front workers and supporters have come under attack in West Bengal after a regime change in the state, the CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat on Friday said that "coercion cannot suppress the Left movement".
"If they think that by coercion, intimidation and violence they can suppress CPI(M) in West Bengal, they are mistaken," Prakash Karat said.
"People have given a mandate to Trinamool Congress, but why are there attacks on CPI(M) and other Left workers," Karat said at a public meeting here to celebrate the 123rd birth anniversary of Muzaffar Ahmed, the doyen of the Communist movement in India.
"Those who said they (Trinamool Congress) are more democratic than the CPI(M), should now look and see what they are doing," he said.
He alleged that 30 CPI(M) workers and leaders have been killed and hundreds of others injured, apart from party offices being captured in the two and half months of Trinamool Congress-Congress rule.
He, however, said that CPI(M) leaders and workers should go to the people and humbly tell them that if mistakes were made, correction would be made.
He also warned those who had taken advantage of the Left rule of 34 years, saying that they should mend themselves or leave.
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