Modi guarantee means sending people to jail, claims Didi

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Modi guarantee means sending people to jail, claims Didi

Tuesday, 09 April 2024 | Saugar Sengupta | Kolkata

Picking up from where she had left a day before, Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday rained fire on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for promoting a kind of "Guarantee" that guarantees a definite journey to jail.

Launching a frontal attack against the Prime Minister for announcing "stronger action against the corrupt people after June 4," when the third BJP Government would come to power in the Centre, Banerjee said how his government had turned the entire country into a jail.

"I respect the Prime Minister's chair but the tone and tenor of his language that he used from a rally at Jalpaiguri does not behove his high post … he said that after June 4, he will send everyone to jail," Banerjee said insisting, "his (Prime Minister's) guarantee means sending people to jail … so much so that they have converted the entire country into jail."

Cocking a snook at the Prime Minister she said "you think that you will terrorise everyone with threat of putting them to jail but no one is afraid of that," adding how Modi moved around with Enforcement Directorate, Central Bureau of Investigation in one pocket and National Investigation Agency and Income Tax Department in the other.

The Prime Minister had told in an election rally at Dhupguri in Jalpaiguri district that he would continue his tirade against the corrupt people as he had promised to rid India of corruption and turn into a fully developed country by 2047 by which it would become a third strongest economic power of the world.

Referring to his hard-hitting speech, Banerjee said that the BJP Government was using the central agencies to suit its political ends. "They (agencies) are your brothers who bring funds for you and showing them you threaten us… you carry ED and CBI in one pocket and NIA and Income Tax in the other," she said.

Banerjee was addressing a rally at Bankura a tribal dominated district of Jangalmahal adjacent to Jharkhand. For the first time raising the issue of the arrest of former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemanta Soren in an election rally Banerjee asked "why did you arrest Hemanta Soren who is a tribal Chief Minister … I have spoken to his wife and they are not scared … my question is who are you threatening … who is afraid of you … you will arrest five TMC man … their wives will come forward to work."

Slamming the BJP Government for arresting her Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal, the TMC supremo asked ""Why did you arrest Arvind Kejriwal? … what was his fault" adding "just because he did not submit to you … even after his arrest he is working from jail… not only that he will win from jail and this time with a bigger margin." 

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