With the Mamata Banerjee government curtailing the number of newspapers to be bought by its offices and libraries, the CPI-M today said "seeds of fascism" were being sown in West Bengal. 

"She (Mamata) wants that only what she says should get in to print and not anything else. This shows that seeds of fascism have been sown in the state. But her statements will not change history and neither will the realities change," CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury said here when asked about the decision.

Yechury said the erstwhile Left Front government not only allowed buying of all newspapers but also gave them advertisements "impartially". The Trinamool Congress government, through a recent circular, announced that no newspapers, barring the eight named in it, would be bought henceforth by government officesand state-funded libraries.