West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday alleged the Opposition parties of her State had entered into an unholy alliance to scandalise her Government and assassinate her.
A day after facing angry protests by the villagers at Kamduni a small hamlet in North 24 Parganas — in the northern suburbs of Kolkata — where a second year college student was gangraped and brutally killed early this month, Banerjee claimed Maoists and Marxists had joined hands to kill her and the Congress was only stoking the anti-Government fire to help the left cause.
“I suspect that a few Maoist and CPI(M) agents were present in the crowd who were instigating the villagers to assassinate me,” Banerjee told a Trinamool Congress election rally at Duttapukur in North 24 Parganas.
Banerjee was literally gheraoed by the local women expressing displeasure at the rising crime against women. local women entered into heated arguments with the Chief Minister questioning why incidents of rape and murder had gone up in Barasat (the district headquarters) and nearby areas.
“My Government has no money as all that we earn is taken away by the Centre as interest of the huge Rs 2 lakh crore loan the left Front has left for us,” Banerjee said adding “had I known that the finances were in such a state I would not have contested the polls.”
The Chief Minister who was addressing her first meeting ahead of the panchayat elections said “the Congress is in its way out. They are going out of power in the next six months and so there is no point asking for money from them. But the situation is such that we face extreme difficulty in paying the salary of Government staff.”
She added “the Congress, left and the BJP are conspiring against the Trinamool Congress which is alone fighting against the odds.”
On “certain parties who were trying to provoke riots in Bengal the Chief Minister said “there are some parties who are trying to fan communal riots but I must tell them that we are a rough and tough Government and we will not allow that to happen.”
Documenting the success of her Government Banerjee said “Bengal recorded GDP growth of 7.7 percent against the national rate of 4.96 percent in 2012-13,” wondering “why still the opposition is crying hoarse on so-called flight of capital and economic slowdown.” Bengal had recorded a 6.24 growth rate in industry against the national average of 3.12 she said.
