28 Jan 2008, 0351 hrs IST,TNN
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KOLKATA: The bird flu in Bengal is man-made, Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee alleged on Sunday.
Addressing the first meeting of Progressive Secular Democratic Front (PSDF), Mamata said that since November last year, the state government had the information that bird flu had broken out in some parts of the state. But it did not take any preventive step.
"CPM was sleeping at that time. Now that panchayat polls are round the corner, it has suddenly woke up." The party is playing politics with bird flu, she alleged. It’s part of a CPM conspiracy to ruin the rural economy. The flu has given the party leaders a chance to mint money.
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Kolkata/Flu_man-made_says_Mamata/rssarticleshow/2736274.cms 
