The BJP can never come to power in Bengal because its wavelength do not match that of the State, Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said comparing the BJP national leadership with migratory birds who had no understanding of the State’s cultural ethos and who only wanted to win votes by playing the communal card.
“Bengal and BJP are not a good match as their wavelength is completely different from ours. While we uphold our culture & tradition, the migratory birds from Delhi do nothing but spread lies on Bengal, in Bengal,” Banerjee said on X.
The Chief Minister who later held an election meeting in Malda said that a culturally awakened and evolved Bengal was beyond communalism and would not fall in BJP’s traps.
Apparently doing what she has been accusing the BJP of doing the Chief Minister tried to play on the Muslim’s fear of National Citizenship Register, Citizenship Amendment Act and Uniform Civil Code saying, “Bengal will never vote for engineers of the Gujarat riots and for those who killed hundreds of people in the anti-NRC movement in Delhi … many bodies were thrown in the rivers and were never to be recovered,” she said much the way she had accused the Left during the Nandigram movement of cutting the protesters and throwing them in the Haldi River.
Apart from lambasting the saffron outfit for playing a divisive politics in the State while depriving its people of their rightful wages by stopping the central funds meant for the MNREGA and housing schemes, the Chief Minister attacked the Election Commission too for allegedly fiddling with the Electronic Voting Machines.
Saying that the ECI should act honestly Banerjee asked, “how is it that the polling percentage goes up at once by six percent … hence it is the duty of the ECI to ensure a fair play.”
Meanwhile in a major development indicative of infighting within the party the TMC on Wednesday removed powerful leader Kunal Ghosh from the post of general secretary after he jointly attended a blood donation programme with North Kolkata BJP candidate Tapas Roy. Roy a founder member of the TMC, a former Bengal minister and a sitting MLA had a month ago left his party to join the saffron outfit.
The TMC in a press statement said that, “Recently, Mr. Kunal Ghosh has been expressing views that do not align with those of the party. It is important to clarify that these are his personal opinions and should not be attributed to the party. Only statements issued from AITC headquarters should be considered the official position of the party.”
Ghosh had earlier been relieved from his role as party spokesperson.
When asked as to comment on the latest development Ghosh said he had not done anything wrong. “My action only upheld the culture of political courtesy,” he said.
When asked as to whether he would quit his party he said he was not thinking of quitting immediately.
