Kolkata: Warning West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee against using force to foil the September 2 countrywide strike called by central trade unions, the CITU on Sunday declared it was ready for any confrontation to make the agitation successful.


Mamata Banerjee. Pic/Sameer Markande 

"If the chief minister seeks to wage a war against the people who have been deprived, wants to unleash her party goons on the masses, we are ready for that. If she wants a war, we are ready for that," Shyamal Chakraborty, state president of the Centre for Indian Trade Union, said here.