Prime Minister Narendra Modi resumed his electoral campaign in North Bengal once again giving out a 400-seat-call so as to enable him translate his "trailer" of a performance into a full-fledged act of making India the third largest economic power in the world.
"All these years you have seen introducing a whole lot of schemes for the people but that was all a trailer … this time if you vote me to power the whole picture will unfold before you," the Prime Minister said from twin rallies of Balurghat and Raiganj in North Bengal adding the people of Bengal had made up their minds to help the BJP go beyond 400 seats this time round. Early this month the Prime Minister had told a rally at Cooch Behar about his resolve to make India the third largest economy in the world.
"Come June 4, and Bengal has decided to help the BJP breach the 400-seat mark … this large gathering conveys this message to me that the people of Bengal will definitely bless us to achieve that feat," of 400 seats, the Prime Minister said.
However, Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee who was holding a rally barely 200 km away at Jalpaiguri said "let them cry hoarse for 400-seats … but they will not get more than 200 this time round," wondering "if they are so confident of getting 400 seats then why are they sending agencies and sending opposition leaders to jail."
An unrelenting Prime Minister on the other hand continued to fire salvos at the Trinamool Congress for turning Bengal into a "free zone of the corrupt and criminals." Asking the people to shun the party that was committed to change the demography of Bengal, the Prime Minister said "the TMC Government has been playing an open game of corruption which we have seen in the every strata of the administration … the corruption in the primary school teachers' recruitment is a big example." Saying that every raid by the central agencies in the houses of ministers and TMC leaders yielded crores of rupees the Prime Minister said how "even the investigating agencies are not spared by the Trinamool Congress goons who attack and injure them when they come in search operations."
Saying that the Mamata Banerjee Government had given a freedom to the criminals Modi said how "the TMC has given Bengal in lease" to the anti-social elements and infiltrators.
Though he would not talk about a steady rise in the minority vote share the Prime Minister slammed the TMC for playing a role in changing the demography of the State. "In order to indulge in its vote-bank politics the TMC Government is allowing infiltration and changing the demography of Bengal," he said.
The TMC Government was stoking infiltration and thwarting the Citizenship Amendment Act which was made to provide citizenship to genuine people the Prime Minister said, "they are misleading the people on CAA and promoting infiltrators" which would ruin the future of the people of Bengal.
In an apparent bid to wean back the women voters that had of late been siding with the TMC, thanks to the women-centric schemes like Kanyashree and Laxmir Bhandar the Prime Minister Sandeshkhali and reminded how the women of this State were being oppressed and dishonored. "Whatever happened at Sandeshkhali sent shivers down the entire nation," the Prime Minister said adding how the TMC leaders grabbed people's lands and sexually exploited their women.
