The Trinamool Congress (TMC) calls tons of of hundreds of employed “guns and goons deployed in West Bengal” outsiders, however it doesn’t use such a label for leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), chief minister Mamata Banerjee has informed News18 in an interview.
“We don’t call the Prime Minister or the Union home minister an outsider,” she stated. “Why should we?”
“We say the people who have been deputed in Bengal to defeat the TMC — the guns and goons who have also brought corona — are the outsiders. We will continue terming them so…Guns and goons are not your assets…,” Banerjee stated.
The debate has gained political centre stage this election season with the TMC calling the BJP a celebration of outsiders. It has additionally stated Bengal doesn’t want Gujarat’s model of politics, a comment seen focused at PM Narendra Modi and house minister Amit Shah (each of them are from the western state).
The BJP, however, has termed the argument shallow, asking if Rabindranath Tagore is an outsider to the remainder of India. It has additionally stated a “son of the soil” will develop into the chief minister in Bengal if the BJP involves energy.
In the interview, Banerjee exuded confidence about comfortably profitable Nandigram, the place she is contesting towards her former celebration colleague Suvendu Adhikari. “Why would I be contesting only one seat if I am not confident?” she requested.
Agitations towards land acquisitions for industries in Hooghly’s Singur and East Medinipur’s Nandigram helped Banerjee finish a 34-year Left rule in 2011.
Banerjee stated her resolution to contest Nandigram, in place of Kolkata’s Bhabanipur (her conventional seat), was aimed toward honouring the watershed land agitations. “My commitment is greater than my self-interest,” she added.
The BJP won’t win Nandigram “no matter how much they have tried”, she stated, accusing the Centre’s ruling BJP of election malpractices whereas terming her challenger who switched sides in December a “gaddar (traitor)”.
The chief minister stated she was additionally assured of a victory in the state with two-thirds majority. The writing on the wall is “crystal clear. There will be magic”, she stated. “Our government will be re-elected and work for ma, mati, manush (mother, soil and people),” Banerjee stated, referring to her widespread political slogan.
Banerjee stated the BJP’s uncertainty was evident from the truth that it was sending the PM, the house minister and CMs of different states to marketing campaign in Bengal commonly. She additionally criticised the Election Commission (EC)’s resolution to carry eight-phase polling in the center of the coronavirus pandemic.
As Bengal’s single-largest celebration, “we appealed to EC to club the last three phases and end the polling in six rounds”, she stated. But since that has not been finished, “we have decided against big campaigns in Kolkata” and these exterior the capital, she added. “EC doesn’t listen to us, it only listens to the BJP,” she alleged.
On her purported audio dialog with a celebration chief on the Sitalkuchi incident in Cooch Behar, the place 4 folks died after safety forces fired at a mob in the course of the fourth section of polling, Banerjee stated she mentioned “nothing illegal”.
In the leaked audio tape, the chief minister may very well be heard telling the TMC chief to make sure the our bodies of the firing victims had been saved until the following day in order that there may very well be a rally, prompting her critics to say she was doing politics over deaths.
Banerjee stated she wished to pay respect to the lifeless and meet their households, and added that she had no possibility however to go to the place the following day as polling was underway on the day of the incident. “It’s not a crime…I have humanity…the BJP is doing politics over the issue,” she stated.
Banerjee puzzled how the dialog was leaked and if her “phone was tapped into”. “We want punishment for the guilty,” she stated.
Banerjee additionally stated she wished to advertise the “third generation” in politics. Asked in regards to the cost that she wished to move the baton to her nephew Abhishek Banerjee and promote nepotism, the chief minister stated: “Why are you repeating the BJP line…You can ask me questions about lakhs of party workers…He (Abhishek) has his democratic right to join party politics.”
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