While the Trinamool Congress's effort will be to make the bandh a success, the CPI(M) will make every attempt to foil it.

The CPI(M) said it would deploy cadres on October 8 and 9 to raise funds for flood victims of the state. "We have appealed to the Trinamool Congress to withdraw the bandh in view of the floods in the state. But they paid us a deaf ear. In fact, the bandh will not only hit our economy, it will jeopardise the fund-raising process and the distribution of relief among flood victims. We are sure people will not cooperate with them in the present exigency," Biman Bose, Left Front chairman and secretary of the CPI(M) state committee, said today.

On the issue of any law and order problem owing to the CPI(M) cadres planning to raise funds on the bandh day, Bose said there would not be any problem and that the fund raising programme will be executed peacefully.