In the backdrop of post-poll clashes between CPI(M) and Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, Congress accused the state's ruling Marxist party of being responsible for political violence and said Left parties were still in "Stalinist mode".

"After the end of the Cold War, communist parties in the world have gone through a transformation, except perhaps North Korea...But the communist parties of India are still in the Stalinist mode," Congress spokesman Manish Tewari told reporters in New Delhi.

Tewari was reacting to the statement of CPI(M) Politburo member Sitaram Yechury who charged Trinamool Congress with trying to unleash "semi-fascist" terror in West Bengal.

In an editorial in the forthcoming issue of CPI(M) organ 'People's Democracy', Yechury said the "supreme anti-democratic character of Trinamool Congress is fast unfolding" with continuous murderous assaults on CPI(M)and Left parties.

The AICC spokesman described the assertion of Yechury as "quite intriguing" and alleged that "from 1977 to this day, if anyone is responsible for political violence (in West Bengal), it is the Left, particularly CPI(M)".

Tewari charged Congress and the Trinamool Congress have been at the receiving end of the violence perpetrated by the Left over the years.