KOLKATA: The Left Front's call for
restraint to the people of the plains and the Hills of north Bengal perhaps
doesn't apply to CPM state secretariat member and maverick transport minister
Subhas Chakarabarty.

Calling the Gorkhas "foreigners", he ignored
the Front's appeal for calm, and instead added fuel to the fire raging in the
Hills, close on the heels of the ugly ethnic clashes in
Siliguri.