Close on the heels of winning 29 out of the 42 parliamentary seats from Bengal the Trinamool Congress on Sunday predicted an early fall of the new Narendra Modi Government saying it will not survive its full term finally giving way to a government in the Centre formed by the Indian National Democratic Inclusive Alliance.
"First the arrogant BJP leaders declared that they will get 400 seats but let alone that target they could not even touch 300 and now the irony is that they have to form a wobbly government … meaning they are dependent on the other parties for their survival ... so it is TMC's prediction that though Prime Minister Narendra Modi is taking oath for the third time this Government will not survive very long," TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said.
He said that "the future of this government is bleak" and that after the fall of the Modi 3.0 government "the INDIA alliance would come to power and continue its full term."
On the reasons of his party's prediction Ghosh said that "underlying this Government lies a history of conflicts… it is a well known fact that normally they (BJP leaders) don't go along well with Nitish Kumar… and of you talk about Chandrababu Naidu it is the same Government that had put him to jail not very long ago … so problems will keep on arising and the BJP will have to keep on appeasing its allies which will not be possible for it if you are to go by their arrogance … so this Government will fall soon."
Ghosh's senior party colleague and Bengal minister Firhad Hakim too said that Modi will not be able to drag on for five years and his government would cave in on account of its inner contradictions. "The BJP may be jumping in joy … but this celebration will be short lived as the future of this government is bleak … you will see the impact of the general elections on the Assembly elections of Maharashtra and Haryana… where the BJP will be defeated … thereafter the Modi Government will fall."
The TMC has decided against attending the swearing-in ceremony of the Prime Minister. Earlier moments before leaving for Delhi senior TMC leader Sudip Bandopadhyay said that "one of senior BJP leaders Prahlad Joshi had called me up last night inviting TMC to the swearing-in ceremony but our party leadership has already decided against joining it so I will not join." He was going to the Capital for some other official works, he said.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee too had said on Saturday that her party would not join the searing-in function as "the BJP has literally lost the elections."
In an apparent bid to take advantage of the rumblings within the saffron outfit as also in the RSS Banerjee said that "Narendra Modi should have quit and let some other leader in his party become the Prime Minister" because literally his party had lost the elections by failing to reach the half way mark. She also alleged that the BJP was "undemocratically and illegally forming the government." She also said that the INDIA block would not stake its claim not "but that does not mean that the national opposition alliance will not come in power at the Centre in future. We are waiting and watching."
