A day after the City of Joy saw alleged BJP supporters vandalising Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar’s Statue inside a North Kolkata college, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah on Wednesday insisted that the whole episode was a handiwork of TMC goons, who committed the sin and were now framing the BJP workers.
In an attempt to turn the responsibility of the Tuesday’s bedlam on the TMC chief, the Prime Minister, who was speaking at an election rally at Taki in Basirhat, said, “Mamata Didi had declared publicly two days ago that she will take revenge. She fulfilled her agenda within 24 hours, BJP president Amit Shah’s roadshow was attacked.”
Referring to how a woman was jailed in Bengal for sharing a meme on Mamata, Modi said, “Didi, you get so much angry for a mere picture! But I call you upon to make an obscene picture of me and present it at my residence in Delhi after I come to power again. I promise not to file any FIR against you.”
Saying that by jailing the daughters “you are only provoking them to rise up in revolt against you”, he said, “I am sure they will rise up and throw you out of power.”
The people had voted Didi to power with love but she is misusing that power and treating the people as her servants. They will surely punish you for this, Modi said.
Ridiculing Mamata for getting angry out of frustration and nervousness, Modi said, “This anger will fetch us more and more seats, perhaps we will cross 300 seats this time round.”
In Delhi, accusing Trinamool Congress of inciting violence during his roadshow in Kolkata on Wednesday, BJP president Amit Shah alleged that the Election Commission was biased and silent spectators to the State ruling party’s misdeeds.
A BJP delegation led by senior Ministers Prakash Javadekar, Nirmala Sitharaman, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and BJP media head and RS member Anil Baluni met vice-president M Venkaiah Naidu to register their protest against incidents of violence in Bengal.
Hitting out at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Shah sought to ask as why Bengal alone was witnessing violence and not other States in the rest of the India where he had travelled for his campaigning and alleged that it was because of the TMC. “If BJP were to inspire violence all States would have been affected by it, it is because of the TMC that Bengal experiencing violence,” he said.
He alleged that stature of Vidyasagar was broken by TMC workers inside the college compound.
Shah said BJP workers were on the road and gate of the college was intact suggesting that gate would have broken if BJP had attacked from outside. “How can BJP get the key of the room?, all evidence point that TMC goondas broke the stature to save party from its poll defeat,” the BJP president claimed.
