Bachao! Is Desh ko bachao … Modi se Bachao! … Is Desh ko Modi kha lega (save India from Modi or else he will devour it). That is how Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee expressed her anger against the BJP Government at the Centre, a day after the Income Tax Department officials searched Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee’s helicopter on Sunday.

Even as her wrath fell on Prime Minister Narendra Modi she also accused the Election Commission of India for acting in a biased manner even as she asked why the State officials were being transferred when their central counterparts were not being touched. 

Wondering as to why the I-T officials would search the helicopters of the BJP leaders Banerjee told a rally at Cooch Behar on Monday, “if things continued like this and if the people did not wake up at right moment then nothing will be left of a democratic India,” because “If this government returns to power, there will be no election in this country. They will destroy the federal structure. There will be one nation and one leader. An autocratic government will be formed.”

She said, that the BJP Government had sent the “I-T officials to search the chopper of Abhishek but found nothing … they had thought that they would get gold or money in it … the TMC does not need gold and money for fighting elections … it is the BJP which does that business … my question is would any central agency dare check helicopter of the BJP leaders.”Hours later at a rally at Alipurduar Banerjee said she was ready to go to jails and that she was not afraid of the Prime Minister’s jail threat. Apparently referring to Prime Minister’s earlier speech where he warned that he would send all the corrupt politicians to jail Banerjee said, “they are threatening to send us to jail … I am not afraid of jails … I am not a coward … I have seen such threats several times before … I will see how many jails you have.

How many cops do you have … How many people can you beat up”

Curiously Banerjee’s statement nearly matched that of Pradesh Congress president Adhir Chowdhury who asked why the I-T would not check the choppers of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.” Chowdhury was however speaking in reaction to an alleged check conducted by the ECI officials in Rahul Gandhi’s chopper.

Cautioning the electorate once again that there would be no democracy left in India if the BJP returned to power Banerjee raised the issue of Citizenship Amendment Act, National Register of Citizens and Uniform Civil Code saying, “when I said that CAA is only the beginning and there are many more things to follow none believed … Now their (BJP’s) manifesto says it all … There is a fish whose head is the CAA and tail is the NRC and stomach is the UCC,” adding when all the three were implemented the “all rights will be gone … the minorities, tribals, mothers and sisters will be the worst sufferers... it is they who will decided as what you will eat in the morning and what you will eat at night.”

Saying once again that the BJP which called others thieves was itself a party of dacoits Banerjee said, “the BJP is a party of dacoits. Gali gali mein shor hai, BJP chor hai (there is a word in every by-lane that BJP is a thief)” daring the saffron government to “publish comparative details of corruptions that took place in Bengal, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra.”

Threatening to go on a hunger strike if the Election Commission continued to act in a biased manner Banerjee said how State officials were being transferred at the drop of hat whereas their central counterparts were being allowed to act partially.

Referring to the transfer of the Deputy Inspector General of Murshidabad range Banerjee said how “even today, they have transferred the DIG of Murshidabad just following the directions of the BJP…” adding, if a single riot took place anywhere then it was the ECI that would be responsible. To register her protest she said that if the situation would not improve then she would go on yet another hunger strike as the one she did during the Singur movement.

“In Singur days I went on a hunger strike for 26 days … now if this continues then I will do it for 55 days,” she said.