Kolkata, Aug 23 - Ridiculing Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee for introducing new trains 'every day', West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Sunday alleged that the railways in the country was in a 'very bad state'.

The chief minister also attacked the railways for belittling Bengal's great personalities by printing their pictures in its advertisements.

'The railways have come out with advertisements carrying the pictures of Bengal's great men with regard to a programme. I saw pictures of Mastarda Surya Sen and Kazi Nazrul Islam. They are making a 'tamasha' of our great men,' Bhattacharjee said at a memorial meeting of Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Subhas Chakraborty.

Bhattacharjee was referring to the railway advertisements in connection with Saturday's inauguration of the extended run of the city's Metro Railway from Tollygunge to Garia on the southern fringes.

Banerjee, who flagged off the first train on the stretch, announced that stations will be named after Indian freedom fighters Mastarda and Kshudiram Bose and rebel poet Nazrul Islam.

The chief minister, a top leader of the state's ruling Left Front major CPI-M, questioned the state of the railways.