Within 48 hours of Narendra Modi calling out for “real Poriborton (change of guards)” from a public rally in Hooghly, Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee launched a blistering attack on the Prime Minister, calling him a “dangabaj” (rioter), a “daitya” and “danab” (demon) and daring him to defeat the Trinamool Congress in the (electoral) game that was in the offing.
Banerjee’s no-holds-barred attack came a day after CBI officials questioned Rujira Narula Banerjee the wife of her nephew and TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee regarding her bank transactions in Thailand. The CBI is porbing the multi-croer coal scam.Attacking the Prime Minister for using CBI against the opposition leaders, she said earlier they were threatening us but now they are entering the households and not even sparing the young Bahus (housewives).
“They sent CBI to harass a Bahu of my house. They are calling us coal thieves … but let me ask who is a thief . These people stay in the hotels constructed by coal mafia at Durgapur, their leaders stay in the house of the Ruias who have ruined the Dunlop company. They are selling out BSNL, Rail, LIC, SAIL, banks and are calling us coal thieves. Are the bahus of Bengal coal thieves?”
“I will play the Goalkeeper and see how many goals you can score,” the Chief Minister said invoking the weird “Khela Hobey” (there will be a game) slogan that has recently gone into circulation in the poll-bound Bengal with the opposition leaders calling it a Trinamool ploy to terrorise the voters driving fears of a “bloody game” so that they remain indoors and do not venture out to vote.
Launching a fierce personal attack she said, “today the country is being ruled by a Hodol Kutkut (Bengali for a chubby person) and a Kimbhut Kimakar (weird looking guy) who have been peddling all kinds of lies against us to win elections.”
“Let me tell you that they are bigger Tolabaj in fact they are Dangabaj (rioters) who ignite riots to win elections,” Banerjee thundered from the same Dunlop Maidan where Modi addressed his rally on Monday and used the tolabaj jibe to attack the TMC.
“The other day the self-styled tallest leader of the country who thinks himself even taller than Mahatma Gandhi came here to tell all kind of lies … he spoke of development done by his Government, he said that the TMC has done nothing. If I did nothing then who made the Noapara Dakshineshwar Metro Railway, who made Joka Metro, who made Dankuni Amritsar freight corridor --- all these I had cleared as a Railway Minister of which this man is cutting ribbons and taking the credit,” Banerjee said adding I have not seen a Prime Minister to tell such amount of lies.”
“The country is being ruled by a doitya and a danab (Bengali for demons). They will try to break our spine. They will infiltrate and grab Bengal its culture and everything. Do you want that? Do you want Bengal to be ruled by Gujarat … Bengal will be ruled by Bengal and not Gujarat,” she said. Referring to the “great fall of Donald Trump” she said “he (Modi had held that hands of Trump thinking that he will continue to help him everywhere but now see what has happened to him (the former US President). I tell you this man’s condition will be even worse than that of Trump.”