Mamata Banerjee is ahead of Hitler: BJP leader Dilip Ghosh's reply to Bengal CM's super emergency remark
At the India Today conclave, BJP's West Bengal president Dilip Ghosh today said that Mamata Banerjee is "ahead of Hitler".
In Short
- Mamata is ahead of Hitler, says BJP's Dilip Ghosh.
- Ghosh and Maken traded accusations over misuse of CBI.
- Mahua Moitra accused the BJP of doing a plea-bargain arrangement.
Countering Mamata Banerjee's "super emergency" statement at the India Today conclave, BJP's West Bengal president Dilip Ghosh today said that the chief minister is "ahead of Hitler".
Speaking at the India Today Conclave East, Dilip Ghosh, when asked about the BJP inducting Mukul Roy into the party despite earlier calling him corrupt, said, "Fair and lovely ka formula Maken ji ne invent kiya, hum toh bas uska upyog kar rahe hain (The fair and lovely formula was invented by Ajay Maken's party, we are only using it)."
Senior Congress leader Ajay Maken, BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi and Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Mahua Moitra along with Dilip Ghosh were part of a session titled 'Saffron and the East: Will the Two Meet?' on the second day of the India Today Conclave in Kolkata.
As the BJP leaders maintained that courts will decide if Mukul Roy, an accused in the Saradha chit fund scam, is guilty, with Meenakshi Lekhi saying that BJP would want Roy, a former close aide of Mamata Banerjee, to "speak up and disclose all that he knows about".
TMC's Mahua Moitra shot back and accused the BJP of "doing a plea-bargain arrangement" with leaders like Mukul Roy. "People in Bengal have rejected the BJP and you tell us about corrupt and non-corrupt," the TMC leader said.
Congress leader and former Union minister Ajay Maken attacked the BJP for hypocrisy and said when the BJP is in opposition, it's stand is "innocent till proven guilty" but when it is in power the yaerdstick changes to "guilty in opposition".
A day after Mamata Banerjee called the BJP a "riot-oriented party" and said it does "Hindu-Muslim dance", BJP's Meenakshi Lekhi said that law and order is a state subject and it is a failure of the state government if it cannot control riots.
Lekhi accused the Mamata-led TMC government of Muslim appeasement and said "why is it that if you are wearing a skull cap, you are exempted from wearing a helmet in Bengal".
Lekhi also took on Mamata over her statement that the BJP-led Central government is allegedly scaring away industrialists from the state. "Extortion tax that industrialists have to pay in Bengal is public knowledge," she said.
Here is the full coverage of India Today Conclave East 2017.
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