West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday took a dig on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), saying that even a “poisonous snake” could be trusted, however not the ruling social gathering. According to Banerjee, the BJP solely follows one precept – “one nation, one party”.
“The BJP is asking you to enrol names for Awas Yojna again. Why will the names be enrolled again? They want further enrolment so that they can chuck it off. You can trust a poisonous snake, you can even pet it…but you can never trust the BJP…The BJP is destroying the country,” Banerjee mentioned whereas addressing a rally in Bengal’s Cooch Behar.
The CM additionally alleged that the central investigating companies, the Border Security Force (BSF) and Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) are “working at the behest of BJP”. “We will humbly plead to the Election Commission to ensure a level playing field as central agencies are working for the saffron camp. The BJP is violating the MCC,” she mentioned, as quoted by information company PTI.
Banerjee continued her attack on the ruling social gathering and slammed it for nominating former Cooch Behar SP Debashis Dhar as its candidate from Birhum, asserting that Dhar was chargeable for killing 5 individuals through the 2021 meeting polls.
Modi vs Mamata in Cooch Behar
The Cooch Behar district on Thursday witnessed a back-to-back Lok Sabha marketing campaign battle between Mamata Banerjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. After Mamata’s dig on the saffron social gathering, PM Modi mentioned, “I first want to thank West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee because, in 2019, I was here to address a rally on the same ground, she installed a big stage in the middle of this ground to reduce the space (for the rally), so that people could not listen to Modi. Back then I had told her – ‘Didi, you didn’t do the right thing. People will give an answer to this.’…And you gave a reply. But today, she didn’t do any such thing.”
He added, “This is an election to form a strong and stable government in the country…Modi has taken tough decisions to ensure the country is free of corruption and terrorism,” he added.
Notably, the BJP has had a stronghold because it made most electoral features because the 2019 elections within the Cooch Behar area.
(With inputs from companies)
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