Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today said it is "against her taste" to comment on West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's charge that she was a "liar".

"I will not reply in the same language which he (chief minister) has used, because to do so goes against my taste and my sense of courtesy. For the last 34 years we have been subjected to character assassination and slanders," Banerjee told a rally at Bagha Jatin area here.

In a strong personal attack on Banerjee, Bhattachajee had yesterday accused her of "spreading canards".

Without naming the TC chief, Bhattacharjee had said, "When the Stephen Court building caught fire, she said we did it. This is a lie."

"She claimed we were trying to foment communal violence (before the municipal elections). This is a lie. She falsely blamed us for the Jnaneswari Express and the railway mishap at Sainthia. These are also lies," he had said at a Left Front function on the 51st anniversary of the Food Movement.

Banerjee also alleged that the CPI(M) was holding meetings to eliminate her and also carrying out acts of sabotage to discredit her.

"If not you, your brother has carried out the Jnaneswari Express disaster. Why did you do it? The CBI is inquiring into it. But why is the chief minister averse to a CBI probe into the Sainthia (railway) disaster?" she asked.

Banerjee said the CPI(M) was resorting to terror tactics as it had become politically bankrupt and had captured areas like Keshpur, Garbeta and Nanoor with the help of goons.

"The CPI(M) is resorting to violence because it cannot work for development. Many bodies are being recovered from the junglemahal daily. No one knows exactly how many bodies are in the jungles because many of them are either being burnt or thrown into the rivers," she alleged.

She said the CPI(M) would go out of power in West Bengal within the next two or three months.

"CPI-M has remained in power by manipulating the voters list. Had the elections been free and fair, they would have been voted out of power in the 1987 Assembly elections," he said.