Calcutta, April 20: Leader of the Opposition Surjya Kanta Mishra has said the current law and order situation in Bengal is worse than that during the Congress regime in the 70s, but CPM wouldn’t seek Central intervention to curb the “menace’’.

Addressing a news conference at Alimuddin Street this evening, Mishra said: “Every day, CPM and Left workers are being attacked by the ruling party. The government is simply not concerned about our complaints. The law and order situation has become worse than that during the Congress’ tenure in the seventies. There used to be lawlessness and attacks in certain districts and journalists were also arrested then. But what is happening now is unprecedented.’’

Asked if his party would seek the Centre’s intervention, Mishra said: “Law and order is a state subject and the Centre has no business interfering with it. Ours is not a party that asks for the imposition of Article 356 (President’s rule) on the state’’.

Mamata Banerjee, as an Opposition leader, had consistently demanded Central intervention after the Singur and Nandigram incidents.

Mishra announced that the Left legislature party would on April 27 release copies of some of the letters he had sent to the chief minister on “lawlessness’’ in the state, saying all his interactions had gone unanswered.

“I had written to the chief minister on the law and order situation…how our comrades are being threatened and attacked…how panchayat offices are not being allowed to function. But I didn’t get a reply to any of my letters,’’ he said. “However, I will keep writing to her,’’ Mishra added.

On Mamata’s claim of having done 10 years of work in one year, Mishra said: “Then what will she do in the remaining years?”