Mamata Banerjee called the BJP a “foreigner” and called for revenge.
Calcutta:
Mamata Banerjee today announced her candidacy for a third term as Chief Minister of West Bengal with a virtual rally as she faces the state’s most tangible political rival, the BJP. Led by Amit Shah, the BJP has already escalated a multi-pronged attack on the ruling Trinamool Congress. He organized a virtual rally on Bengal on June 14. But the Mamata Banerjee team has a question for the BJP that the party does not have an answer to: who is the BJP’s response to Didi, who is their main candidate for ministerial post.
At this pandemic-imposed virtual rally on a date Trinamool marks as Martyrs Day, Mamata Banerjee made a dramatic pledge: On July 21 of next year, her party will hold its largest rally ever to celebrate her victory in the Assembly polls. She called the BJP an alien and called for revenge.
“Muscle strength is used all the time. People are afraid to speak up. But I am not. I have fought with guns and bullets. Remember, a wounded tiger is more dangerous than a dead man. My request for my party workers – on May 21 we will take our revenge and make sure that the BJP loses its deposit in the elections and that Bengal is ruled by Bengal and not by foreigners ”, said Mrs. Banerjee.
Ms. Banerjee has traveled extensively since 2011, when she ousted the CPM regime in Bengal. Its slogan was then “badla noy, bodol chai” or “no revenge, we want change”. From now on, there is no hesitation in taking revenge on the BJP for having “threatened the democracy and the federal structure of the country”.
“The next time she addresses her rally on July 21, she will not do so as chief minister,” mocked BJP leader in Bengal Dilip Ghosh of Mamata Banerjee before the rally. . Later, more insults were hurled. “We will give him (Mamata) permission for the rally. But not even 21 people will attend his July 21 rally next year. In fact, there will be no rally, only a meeting around the corner. “, he said.
Trinamool-BJP acrimony is based on high-stakes 2021 Assembly polls. Mamata Banerjee is determined to defend her territory. The BJP is looking for new ground and attacking it in every possible way. Corruption linked to Covid and the cyclone are the latest issues that state governor Jagdeep Dhankar has also joined in.
Not that Mamata Banerjee gives a quarterback. Reacting to allegations of the deterioration of the public order situation in Bengal, she pointed to the incident of Vikas Dubey in Uttar Pradesh. “Even labeling the situation jungle raj is not enough,” she said.
But Trinamool has a surprise trump card up his sleeve and a question for the BJP straight out of the movies: Trinamool a Mamata. And BJP? (Mere paas gari hai, bangla hai, paisa hai. Tumhare pass kya hai? Mere pas maa hai)
“Let the BJP say who their replacement for Mamata Banerjee is. Then we’ll worry about a challenge from that party,” said Subrata Mukherjee, panchayat minister and Mamata’s mentor from their days in Congress.
The workhorse of the BJP of Bengal is Head of State Dilip Ghosh. But with no name officially declared as the chief ministerial candidate, chatter is inevitable about the likely. Tongues waved in a photo with Rajya MP Sabha Swapan Dasgupta, Darjeeling MP Raju Bista, Asansol MP Babul Supriyo and Raiganj MP Debasree Chowdhury in a picture after meeting Amit Shah on Monday.
If Mamata Banerjee even threatened from a distance, she didn’t let him go. To conclude his virtual rally, his rallying cry was: “Hmm na?
