The lengthy marketing campaign for the West Bengal Assembly election got here to an finish on Monday with each the Trinamool Congress and BJP claiming they’d have a thumping win and cross 200 seats come May 2, an assertion that was as polarised because the marketing campaign run by each the edges.
The state has 294 Assembly seats and the final day of marketing campaign noticed each the social gathering chiefs JP Nadda and Mamata Banerjee hearth their final salvos at one another.
The chief minister exuded confidence that her social gathering will win over 200 seats, whereas the BJP wouldn’t cross the 70-seat mark, an assertion much more conservative than the social gathering’s ballot strategist Prashant Kishor who has claimed the BJP’s wins can be restricted to 100 constituencies.
Nadda stated his social gathering had already crossed the bulk mark (148) by the sixth part of the polling and it might solely add extra numbers by the point all eight phases have polled. He stated folks had reposed their religion strongly within the saffron camp.
“We are not that party which says that if we win, we are kings but if we lose let us blame the EVM. The loss is showing on the CM’s rattled face and she should remember that she never blamed the Election Commission when she won earlier elections in West Bengal. She is like the losing player who is already blaming the umpire,” Nadda stated.
Banerjee has stated the EC was performing like a “mouthpiece of the BJP” within the election and she and her social gathering have been handled like an opposition camp within the state and this she wouldn’t overlook. “They want to break down the backbone of Bengal as they know that if Bengal survives and we win, the whole of India will come together against the BJP,” the CM stated.
She stated her struggle was to “save Bengal” because it was the one place the place folks might protest towards the insurance policies of the Narendra Modi authorities whereas accusing the Prime Minister of being accountable for unfold of the coronavirus in India.
Nadda stated Banerjee had run a unfavourable marketing campaign based mostly on false narratives and neither gave a report card on her governance for 10 years nor a roadmap for the way in which forward.
“All she wanted to do was to provoke violence by using bad language against our top leaders and propagate fear and hate” the BJP president stated.
He stated it was an unprecedented election in that sense because the CM sought votes based mostly on faith, tried to play politics on our bodies and painted the social gathering of Shyama Prasad Mookerjee as “outsiders”, moreover calling for ghereo of safety forces. “In fact, we represent the real Bengali culture as we ran a positive and mature campaign based on issues of development” Nadda claimed, including that the CM ran a marketing campaign devoid of ethics or maturity.
Banerjee ended the marketing campaign on a notice of warning for these leaders of her social gathering who abandoned her and joined the BJP, like Suvendu Adhikari and Dinesh Trivedi, however stopped brief of naming them.
“I will never open the doors of the party after coming to power again for all these Mir Jafars (commonly used to refer to traitors) who went and joined the BJP… I can forgive anyone, but the Mir Jafars,” she stated.
The final part of polling will happen on April 29 and the outcomes shall be out on May 2.
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