Claiming that the Assembly elections in Bengal will be held before 2011 because of the deteriorating law and order situation in the state, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee said the Mangalkot violence will be the last straw in the fall of the Left government.

Amid fears of violence, Banerjee addressed a peaceful rally at Khudrun in trouble-torn Mangalkot on Tuesday and urged party supporters to show restraint. After the rally, sporadic clashes broke out in different areas in Mangalkot between the CPM and Trinamool supporters.

“The Assembly elections will not be held in 2011 as scheduled, but much, much earlier because the CPM has crossed all limits in spreading terror. What began in Nandigram and Singur, will ultimately end in Mangalkot. Mangalkot will ring the last bell for the state government,” she said amid applause at Khudrun Crossing, 3 km from the violence-affected villages.

“If elections are held today, we are ready. The people of Bengal are ready to oust the CPM,” added Banerjee.

In an interesting turn to her party’s stand, Banerjee praised a slain CPM leader, Falguni Banerjee, whose murder had sparked off political unrest in the district a couple of months ago. “I pray for Falgunibabu’s soul. As the chief executive officer of Zilla Parishad’s electricity department, he exposed that transformers were stolen. Since he was the whistle blower in the CPM, a section of CPM cadres killed him,” said Banerjee. She also demand a CBI probe into the incident.

The CPM district committee and Burdwan Zilla parishad leader, Falguni Banerjee, was killed in the second week of June. Following his death clashes broke out in Mangalkot and other areas in Burdwan.

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