The TMC also taunted Mr Shah for his failed prediction during the 2021 Assembly polls.
Kolkata:
Immediately after Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s scathing attack The Trinamool Congress hit back with a lengthy rebuttal on the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government. At a rally in Birbhum district, Mr Shah had praised Leader of the Opposition Shubhendu Adhikari for leading the fight in the Assembly against the state government. The TMC retaliated with a ‘master of all illegal things’ jibe.
“The people of Bengal gave us 77 seats, and it is a big responsibility for the BJP. In the assembly, along with our MLAs, our leader Shubhendu Adhikari is fighting with full force against Didi’s bullying. He is exposing Didi’s corruption. And because the BJP is fighting in Bengal, the cow smuggler, your local leader has been put behind bars,” Amit Shah said, referring to Anubrata Mondal, who was recently jailed in a cattle smuggling case. .
Along with the “washing machine politics” taunt, the Trinamool Congress criticized the BJP, pointing to several scams in which Mr Adhikari has been accused.
“Amit Shah claimed that Leader of the Opposition, Shubhendu Adhikari, was leading the fight against the alleged corruption of the Bengal government. However, it is Suvendu Adhikari who is himself embroiled in controversies. From being embroiled in the Saradha scam to recruiting Irregularities till his involvement in, the officer is the kingpin of all illegal things in Bengal. Such is the magnitude of his crimes that the officer has been seen on video taking money in the Narada sting operation. Still, the officer is a victim of BJP’s ‘washing machine’ politics remains active in
Amit Shah also set a target of 35 seats for the BJP and said, ‘With 77 seats, you gave 38% votes. I have come to tell the people of Bengal to do the rest of the work in the 2024 elections and give more to the BJP. More than 35 seats in Bengal and make Modiji the Prime Minister.”
The home minister then raised the issue of violence, infiltration and cow smuggling in the state and claimed that the only way to stop these crimes was to vote for your party in power in the state.
“This is the misrule of Didi and Bhatija (Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee), isn’t it misrule? And the only way to remove this misrule is by the BJP. Freeing Bengal from terror and the only way to do it is to choose. ” B J P. Do you want infiltration in Bengal? BJP is the only way to stop the infiltration. Do you want cow smuggling in Bengal? In Assam, both infiltration and cow smuggling have stopped since the BJP formed the government there,” Amit Shah said.
Mr Shah further said that the Mamata Banerjee government would be “finished” before the 2025 assembly elections if the BJP gets 35 of the state’s 42 Lok Sabha seats. He also referred to the recent violence during Ram Navami and attributed it to Mamata Banerjee’s “appeasement politics”.
“Browse the lotus just once in Bengal and there will be no bomb blasts and there will be no attacks on Ram Navami processions, no atrocities, no infiltration and no cow smuggling. The only way to get rid of the kind of corruption in Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party,” he said.
He said, “Ram Navami processions were attacked in Rishra and Howrah. I want to ask you whether Ram Navami processions should be taken out in Bengal or not? If Ram Navami processions cannot be carried out peacefully in Bengal, how can we do.” Work? It has got a boost because of the appeasement politics of the Trinamool Congress. I want to assure you that once Modi ji is given 35 seats in the Lok Sabha elections in Bengal, a BJP government is formed here and no one will dare to attack the Ram Navami procession in Bengal,” Amit Shah further said.
TMC gave a befitting reply to Amit Shah’s attack. In a statement, the party said, “At his public meeting in Birbhum, Shah said that the Bengal government was stopping the Ram Navami processions. Yet, he remained tight-lipped on why BJP workers were brandishing guns and swords at these rallies.” Are.” Shah remained silent on the BJP’s links with Sumit Shaw, the accused arrested by the Howrah police from Munger in Bihar.
The TMC said Mr Shah’s claim of “dismantling” the democratically elected Bengal government revealed a “conspiracy” against the state.
The Trinamool Congress reiterated its allegation, saying, “As Home Minister, Shah’s claims of toppling the government are related, he has accepted that a conspiracy is being hatched against Bengal.”
Bengal’s ruling party also taunted Mr Shah for his failed prediction during the 2021 assembly elections.
“Regarding its claims of 35 seats for the BJP from Bengal, it was Shah who said ‘Abki Baar 200 Paar’ ahead of the 2021 Bengal elections. By the end, the BJP could not even muster a three-digit score. Same follow Will do The Trinamool Congress said, will suit in the upcoming panchayat elections and the general elections to be held after that.