Mamata Flip-Flop On Maoists Role In Jnaneswari Mishap

Kolkata, Nov 16: Nineteen months after she suggested that CPI(M) was behind the Jnaneswari Express disaster, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said Maoists were ‘prima facie’ responsible, but later clarified she did not also rule out the hand of the Marxists.

“Maoists were responsible for the Jnaneswari Express disaster that left 160 people dead. This is now proved,” Banerjee told a party martyrs rally here with the bodies of two Trinamool Congress supporters killed in Maoist attack in Purulia on Monday.

Banerjee said that she was then the Railway minister and had demanded a CBI inquiry, “which prima facie established Maoist involvement in their chargesheet submitted in court.”

Shortly afterwards, however, the chief minister came out with a clarification on TV news channel ‘Star Ananda’ saying “Maoists were responsible for the disaster, but who had made them do it? We have our suspicion. We can’t state this without evidence.

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