New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of arriving with “cash” throughout polls to “lure voters and loot votes”.
Addressing an election marketing campaign rally at Paschim Medinipur in West Bengal, Banerjee alleged that forward of elections, BJP leaders “arrive here in choppers and planes from outside with bagful of cash to lure voters and loot votes”.
Admitting there have been lapses within the reduction efforts carried out when Cyclone Amphan hit the state, the West Bengal CM stated, “Thousands of crores of rupees were doled out by the TMC government for the cyclone-affected. There could have been one or two exceptions… But we rushed to be on the side of people. Where were BJP leaders then? At the time of human miseries, they are always absent.”
The TMC supremo additionally assured that if voted to energy, her occasion is not going to enable the train of National Population Register (NPR) to be applied within the state. She claimed, “The BJP will omit names of voters if they are not found at home during the visit of enumerators. They will just evict you (people). But we would not allow them to update the register here.”
“Not a single member of any family, no citizen of the country can be evicted from Bengal,” Banerjee was quoted as saying by PTI.
Meanwhile, forward of the upcoming Assembly elections, TMC launched its manifesto on Wednesday with the goal to ‘maintain Bengal as one of the main states in India’.
The polls to 294-member West Bengal Assembly seats can be held in eight phases ranging from March 27. The counting of votes will happen on May 2.
(With PTI inputs)
