Let Mamata form commission to probe cut money allegation during Left rule: Sujan Chakraborty slams CM

"She has to take three births to prove any cut money allegation against the CPI-M. Her gathering today was a flop and let her form a commission to probe such preposterous allegations," said Chakraborty in reaction speaking to media.

He said the Left is a party guided by ideology and Mamata cannot prove anything against them and neither could utter a single such word during her days as Opposition leader.

Mamata Banerjee, who recently almost opened a Pandora's box by asking her party men to return the cut money taken by them from people in reaching the government schemes,  in her "Martyrs' Day" rally of July 21 said can the Left return the cut money taken by the communists during their regime.

Chakraborty said the gathering for July 21 was a flop and there were only people on the stage and not in the fields.

"The field is empty but the stage is full. People left the rally halfway and she could not keep them even after closing down the zoo garden (where people from districts usually flock when they come for political meetings in Kolkata)," said the senior CPI-M leader.

To Mamata's demand for ballot paper voting instead of the electronic voting machines, Chakraborty said: "The CM won elections with EVM in 2011 and 2016. EVM is good when she wins, EVM is bad when she loses."

Sensing her "cut money" call has backfired,  Mamata Banerjee, on Sunday once again demanded the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government to bring back black money, a promise which was made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014.

"Nothing about cut money. Bring back the black money and the money used in the elections," Mamata said hitting out at the BJP. She in her speech also accused the CPI-M of indulging in cut money culture in their regime.

Following the Lok Sabha polls, which saw the Trinamool losing its ground to the BJP massively, Mamata had urged her party men to return "cut money" to people if taken, a move which was initially perceived as a strategy to rescue her anti-corruption image. But the state BJP didn't spare her from taunts after several people had started protesting against the local Trinamool leaders for taking cut money.