With Trinamool Congress-Congress alliance routing the Left Front in municipal elections in West Bengal in less than two months after Lok Sabha polls, Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday demanded resignation of the Left Front government in the state.

“The CPM should draw a lesson from this verdict and step down from power. Despite their terror, the people have once again supported us within one-and-a-half month of the Lok Sabha polls,” Banerjee told a Bengali channel from New Delhi.

Dedicating her party’s victory to “ma-mati-manush (mother, land and the people)”, she said earlier the Trinamool had only Egra municipality in its control and now it has won in 13.

She said even in Asansol, where her party had lost in the Lok Sabha polls, the Congress-Trinamool alliance has done well. Party workers should be humbled by the electoral verdict, she said.

She alleged that in Rajarhat municipality where the CPM won, a huge cache of arms was seized. “I have requested Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take steps to unearth illegal arms,” she said.

Describing the victory as remarkable, Congress Legislature Party leader Manas Bhuniya said people had again reposed faith in the Congress-Trinamool combine. “The signal is clear. The people have lost faith on the ruling Left Front,” he said.

Partha Chatterjee, Leader of the Opposition and Trinamool legislator said their leader, Mamata Banerjee, has already demanded that the Left Front has no

moral right to be in power any more. “The civic polls results have once again proved the legitimacy of our demand for early Assembly polls,” he said.

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