Mamata slams Modi for ‘making false statements’
Even as Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday claimed in Cooch Behar in North Bengal that Mamata Didi’s defeat from Nandigram is certain, the Trinamool Congress vehemently refuted claims that the Chief Minister was preparing to file nomination from some other constituency after having sensed her defeat from Nandigram.
Mamata is contesting against former protégé-turned-BJP-nominee Suvendu Adhikari. The high-voltage polling for Nandigram ended on Thursday.
Mamata attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for “making false statements.”
She told a rally on Friday, “I am not your party member that you will suggest that I contest from another seat. I have contested from Nandigram and will win from there… We are not your party’s members that you will control us …”
TMC Rajya Sabha member Sukhendu Shekhar Roy said, “We want to make it clear that there is no question of Trinamool Congress president Mamata Banerjee contesting from anywhere other than Nandigram and she is not contesting from any other seat.”
Modi had on Thursday told an election rally at Uluberia north-west of Kolkata that there are whispers in the air that Mamata Didi is planning to file nomination from some other seat after having sensed defeat in Nandigram…
“Didi O Didi is there any truth in the rumour that you are going to contest from some other seat… Like those in Nandigram the people elsewhere too are waiting to give you an answer,” he said.
Referring to Mamata leaving her home seat Bhowanipore in South Kolkata, he said, “Didi left Bhawanipore to go to Nandigram. Then she realised her mistake … so much so that she was forced to camp in Nandigram for three days.”
Immediately after the Prime Minister’s statement conjectures were made on the Chief Minister’s possible filing of nomination from Murarai in Birbhum district or Kolkata Port seat in Kolkata from where her close aide and senior Bengal Minister Firhad Hakim is contesting.
The stated whisper caught wind based on a passing comment made by Mamata earlier that she could also be contesting from Tollygunge seat in Kolkata.
Earlier on Thursday Adhikari had said after the elections that “Begum (Banerjee) is losing the elections … this time a victory for her from Nandigram is not happening.”
Meanwhile, Home Minister Amit Shah who held a rally and roadshow in Coochbehar in North Bengal said that “Mamata Didi’s defeat is written on the wall … this can be read from her body language at Nandigram from where she is losing the battle.”
Shah said that the “Chief Minister’s body language in Nandigram showed on Thursday that she had lost the polls there,” adding “in fact the BJP has won more than 50 seats in the first two phases of elections for 60 seats.”
Mamata was so unpopular in North Bengal that she even refused to contest from here,” Shah said adding the BJP would free the region from political violence a legacy that was being left by the Trinamool Congress.
Attacking the Chief Minister for a corrupt Government he said, “Mamata Banerjee runs her Government on 3T model that is tolabaji (extortion), tanashahi (dictatorship) and tushtikaran (appeasement), adding the BJP would base its Government on 3V model that would stand for “vikas (development), vishwas (faith) and vyapar (business).”
Shah, who on Friday held multiple rallies at Baruipur and Arambagh in addition to Coochbehar, said the BJP Government would introduce a regiment christening Naryani Sena in the honour of the Raj Banshi population of the region. The Raj Banshi people would be inducted in the new regiment, he said.
Saying that infiltration was the biggest problem that was faced by the people of North Bengal, Shah said that the menace of cross-border immigration would be completely stopped after the BJP came to power in the State.
