Renewing her attack on the BJP Government Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said it seldom delivered on its promises and resorted to communal propaganda for the sake of publicity during the elections.

The Chief Minister who was currently touring North Bengal said those in the central Government “had promised many things but delivered nothing …they did nothing for the tea plantation workers but when it comes to voting they would raise communal issues to derive publicity.”

Claiming that her Government had done more than it promised Banerjee said “we have continuously performed. Despite having performed so well for the past one decade there is no publicity because we do not engage in communal riots… rather we are defamed and become victims of disinformation campaigns despite having worked hard for the people of this region whereas when the elections will come they will incite communal riots to get cheap publicity and votes.”

Earlier Banerjee had attacked the Centre for bulldozing the opposition voice in Parliament to pass a number of “draconian anti-people laws” like the farm bill and said the people would take account of that during the elections. Bengal will go to Assembly polls in May next year.

The Chief Minister on Tuesday promised the plantation workers their own houses in a few years’ time. “The Government will construct houses for the plantation workers in three years,” she said adding “those who had come and promised to you so many things have done nothing for you which can be proved by the condition of the plantation workers and industry here.”

Reacting to Banerjee’s statements Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh said “our Chief Minister is a person who loves to beat her own trumpet… If she has worked well then it will be for the people to see and for them to recognize her services … but here it is different. The Chief Minister is patting her own back.”

On communal riots he said “why does riots take place in Bengal only and why they do not happen in other parts of the country… if she is meaning the BJP Governments then she must also explain why such riots do not take place in the places ruled by the BJP… She has to explain a lot of things like arrests of the terrorists from Bengal, existence of Al Qaeda network besides of mushrooming of madarsas which are being used for recruiting terrorists.”