Calcutta, March 21: Deepa Das Munshi today threatened to field Independents against Trinamul Congress in north Dinajpur to protest the party’s acceptance of the alliance on “Mamata Banerjee’s terms”.

“I will field Independents against the Trinamul’s four nominees in the district. I will stop Trinamul’s attempts to weaken the Congress’s organisation,” said Congress’s Raiganj MP.

Accusing Trinamul of “indulging in nasty politics” in her home district, which has nine Assembly seats, Deepa said over the phone from Delhi: “I have spoken to Amal Acharya (the Congress gram panchayat pradhan of Raiganj’s Patiajpur). I will back him as an Independent from Itahar seat. Similarly, I will back Independents in Chopra, Islampur and Hemtabad to counter Trinamul’s anti-alliance move.”

She said Trinamul had “no political base” in North Dinajpur and “can’t even stand on its own in the district”. “The Congress controls the zilla parishad and also runs seven of the nine panchayat samitis. Why should we allow Trinamul to contest four Assembly seats in the district?” asked Deepa.

Explaining the “arbitrariness” with which Trinamul had fielded candidates in North Dinajpur, Deepa said: “Abdul Karim Chowdhury, who had unsuccessfully contested against me in the 2009 Lok Sabha polls, is contesting the Islampur Assembly seat this time on a Trinamul ticket.”

Deepa said she had called a district committee meeting tomorrow to “select” the four Independent nominees she would back.

Asked if her move would be construed as anti-party activity, the Raiganj MP said: “I have already explained my logic to the high command. If Mamata did not offer us a single seat in East Midnapore, where her party controls the zilla parishad, why should we allow her to contest as many as four seats in North Dinajpur?”

Deepa’s discontent found echoes in the voices of three sitting Congress legislators who were denied tickets — Ram Pyare Ram, Gyan Singh Sohanpal and Abdul Khaleq Mollah. The trio threatened to contest as Independents after being “sacrificed at the altar of the alliance with Trinamul”.