Asansol, April 12 -- Pointing out that the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) is incharge of the coal mines,West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi how the Trinamool Congress can be held responsible for the loot from the ECL coal mines.

"Hundreds of ECL Coal mines and the IISCO Steel Plant in Burnpur are being guarded by the CISF. Then the Centre should be held responsible for Coal or steel loot, but the Prime Minister and the Home Minister (Amit Shah) are spreading lies," she alleged while addressing an Assembly election rally here in Paschim Bardhaman district.

Earlier this week, while campaigning here, Modi alleged that the prime reason for the decline of the Asansol-Durgapur indust...