: Accusing the Trinamool Congress (TMC) of committing atrocities against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers, BJP president Amit Shah cautioned Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday that if TMC wanted confrontation, BJP workers were ready for it.
This comes in the backdrop of increasing clashes between TMC and BJP workers in West Bengal.
Speaking at a party rally at Bara Nilpur in Bardhaman district, Mr. Shah urged BJP workers not to get intimidated by TMC’s atrocities, but to work with the masses. Pointing out the BJP’s recent electoral success in Haryana, Maharashtra and Jammu and Kashmir, he said, “The BJP will form the next government in Bengal.”
Referring to the alleged assault on a woman, said to be a relative of a BJP worker, by officials of Birbhum district police, Mr. Shah said, “Mamata Banerjee, you cannot stop BJP’s winning streak by committing atrocities.”
Accusing Ms. Banerjee of shielding her party leaders who were allegedly involved in the multi-crore Saradha scam, Mr. Shah said, “Mamata Banerjee is not concerned about the unemployment of youth in Bengal, but only about saving her party colleagues involved in the Saradha scam.” He alleged that some TMC Ministers, MPs and leaders were involved in the scam. “When such a scam took place under Ms. Banerjee’s nose, she is seeing conspiracy in it.”
Accusing the TMC government of “allowing Bangladeshi infiltrators to enter the State”, he said “this is not good for national security. The people of Bengal should not allow a government that toys with national security for vote bank politics to run even for a single day. He alleged that when the National Investigation Agency (NIA) started probing the Bardhaman blast case, the TMC “strongly objected to it.”
Claiming that a year before the Bardhaman blast, a blast took place in Kolkata, Mr. Shah said, “If that had been probed properly, the Bardhaman blast would not have taken place.
He criticised Ms. Banerjee for not allowing the Centre to usher in development in Bengal.
Meanwhile, State Education Minister Partha Chatterjee strongly objected to BJP State president Rahul Sinha’s remark at the rally dubbing the TMC a “party of eunuchs who victimised a helpless woman” in Bardhaman.
