Kolkata, Aug 7 - A day after his hard-hitting remarks on the rising political violence in West Bengal, Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi Friday came under attack from the state's ruling Left Front which asked him to 'exhibit more apparent neutrality' while making public statements.

'We would humbly like to submit that the constitutional head of the state should exhibit more apparent neutrality while making statements in public,' the Left Front committee said in a press statement here.

'If worship of force in all its forms has to be eradicated, then the way the highest office of the state behaves should also call for a meaningful change,' said the Left Front, citing several instances to suggest the governor's lack of neutrality.

Gandhi, in a strong statement Thursday night, observed that the state was witnessing a 'veritable tandava of political violence'.

'The state too will, I am confident, (i) move swiftly to check the phenomenon of illicit arms; (ii) act to rapidly bring the perpetrators of violence to account; and (iii) instil confidence among the people that their politics and their security are not linked,' he said.

The Left Front in the statement claimed that the political violence started before the Lok Sabha polls and was targeted at 'the CPI-M in particular' and the Left Front in general.

It said 74 CPI-M workers, two of LF constituent Forward Bloc, besides four of the Jharkhand Party (Naren) and two villagers have been killed since the declaration of the elections in April-May.