Quite disappointing
‘If you want to uproot corrupt TMC… elect Modi as PM again’: Amit Shah in Kolkata
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said that if the corrupt Trinamool Congress (TMC) government has to be uprooted from Bengal in 2026, Narendra Modi has to be re-elected the Prime Minister in 2024.
Addressing a public meeting in Kolkata, Shah also dared Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to suspend from her party the ministers and leaders who have been arrested in connection with multiple scams.
“If you want to elect a BJP government in Bengal (in 2026) then you have to build the foundation by electing Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. The Left Front and Trinamool Congress destroyed Bengal over the years. Mamata Banerjee came to power by bringing a parivartan (change). But has corruption stopped in Bengal? Has infiltration stopped? Has political violence stopped? Has appeasement stopped? Did real parivartan come? If you want to uproot the corrupt TMC from Bengal, you have to give the maximum number of seats from here in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls,” Shah said.
Intensifying his attack against the TMC government over corruption charges, Shah claimed that CM Mamata Banerjee was “chanting Goddess Durga’s name” so that her arrested party leaders did not reveal her nephew Abhishek Banerjee’s name.
“I come from Gujarat and I have never seen in my entire life that bundles of cash are being recovered from the house of a leader. The TMC has damaged the reputation of Bengal in the entire country because of its corruption. Jyotipriya Mallick, Anubrata Mondal and Partha Chatterjee…. from cattle smuggling, coal smuggling cases to requirement scam…. they have looted crores of rupees meant for the people of Bengal,” Shah said. “Today I dare Mamata Banerjee to suspend these leaders from her party. But she cannot do it as she is chanting Durga’s name every day to pray that her nephew’s name does not come up. Those who indulge in corruption cannot make Bengal corruption-free,” said Shah.
In October, the Enforcement Directorate had arrested minister Mallick in connection with alleged irregularities in ration distribution in the state. Last year, central agencies had arrested minister Partha Chatterjee and TMC MLAs Manik Bhattacharya and Jiban Krishna Saha in connection with the school jobs scam. Heavyweight TMC leader Anubrata Mondal is currently in Tihar jail for his alleged involvement in the cattle smuggling case.
Shah also alleged that the Mamata Banerjee government is facilitating infiltrators with voter IDs and Aadhaar cards. “In the entire country, most of the political violence takes place in Bengal. The Mamata Banerjee government could not stop infiltration in Bengal. It is the same Mamata Banerjee who used to protest against infiltration in Parliament who is now facilitating infiltrators with voter ids and Aadhaar cards. The people of Bengal are fed up with infiltration and syndicate raj in the state,” he said.
Santanu Chowdhury – 2023-11-29 15:49
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