West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said her party, Trinamool Congress, would contest a number of Lok Sabha seats in the neighbouring States of Jharkhand, Odisha and Assam in the 2019 general elections.
Upping the ante against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Banerjee said at a public rally in Purulia in West Bengal on Wednesday that the saffron outfit would draw a blank in Bengal in 2019 and also lose a large number of seats in several States where they are currently ruling.
“Those who live in the Bengal-Jharkhand border districts like Purulia, West Midnapore, Jhargram and Birbhum should be prepared. We will fight in a number of Lok Sabha seats in Jharkhand.”
“We will also fight in a number of seats in Odisha, with whom we share our border,” Banerjee announced.
“The BJP is trying to drive away Bengalis from Assam. Assam is our neighbouring State too.”
“We will fight in some Lok Sabha seats in Assam as well. We will contest from these States beside Bengal as we want our relationship with the neighbours to be good,” she said.
Banerjee claimed that the BJP would lose in the current Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan and would eventually be dethroned from the Centre in 2019.
“If elections are held now in Jharkhand, the BJP will not get a single seat.”
“They will lose in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala; and in Bengal, they will get a big zero this time,” she claimed.
