The BJP will get a “crow-bite” for the lies it peddles, Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said once again staking her personal charisma to charm the voters ahead of the Assembly elections.
She asked the electorate to “ignore who is contesting from a given seat … only think that Mamata Banerjee is fighting from all the (294) seats,” prompting her critics to wonder whether the ruling Trinamool Congress was in short supply of credible faces or “whether it has lost all credibility as a political unit.”
Addressing a huge rally in Malda, Banerjee quoted from a famous Rishi Kapoor-Dimple Kapadia number warning “Jhoot Boley Kaua Katey … (you liars will get the crow-bite) … for all the lies the BJP is peddling.”
The saffron outfit is a “factory of liars whose only job is to create division among the communities, castes, religions, Bengalis and non-Bengalis to ignite riots and garner votes,” Banerjee said reminding how “BJP makes fake videos --- by imposing clippings from Hindi and even Bangladeshi films --- of women in Bengal being pulled by their sarees to fan communal riots.”
She said “the BJP will come to you with cash … take them as this is your money … but do not vote for them … do not allow the outside ideas to ruin Bengal,” adding Bengal will not be ruled by Gujarat “Bengal will only be ruled by Bengal.”
The BJP leaders have been “falsely propagating against the Bengal Government that we have stalled central schemes for farmers whereas we have given them the names and answered all the queries … now why are they not paying the farmers (under Kisan Sanman Nidhi),” Banerjee said adding how the farmers of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh were crying and repenting for having voted the BJP.
“We will not allow the BJP to loot the farmers of Bengal like they have done to those of the other States… we will stop them at any cost,” the Chief Minister said adding how her Government pulled the farmers out of the Amphan crisis and how her Government was providing free ration to the people of the State and how “even the mid-day meal for students is being reached door-to-door as the schools are closed now-a-days.”
Claiming that even the media was not safe under the BJP Government Banerjee said how the senior journalists (of various English and other channels) were being framed by the Government. “They are not even sparing the journalists who are being falsely implicated in the farmers’ movement in Delhi,” she said.
Taking a dig at the BJP leadership for taking out Rath Yatras in Bengal “spending crores of ill-gotten rupees” she said the “we only know about Rath Yatras Lord Jagannath who is our revered deity … but today the BJP leadership thinks that it is equal to Lord Jagannath and so they are riding Raths,” reminding how even the demon king Ravan had also ridden a Rath while abducting Mother Sita.
Meanwhile, BJP national president JP Nadda hit back at the Chief Minister for perpetrating a dictatorial rule in the State.
“Didi came to power riding the slogan of Maa-Mati, Manush but today she is pursuing a policy of appeasement, dictatorship and extortion,” Nadda said from a meeting at Kalaikunda in West Midnapore.
