Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday called upon the nation to “banish” the BJP in 2024 general elections holding it responsible for all the odds that India had been facing for the past several years.
Slamming the saffron outfit from the Trinamool Congress mega Martyrs’ Day rally, an annual show of strength, Banerjee attacked the BJP for pulling down governments all over the country and dared them to do so
in Bengal.
“I have heard some of their leaders saying after Maharashtra they will target Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and then Bengal … but I must remind them that Bengal is infested with the ferocious Royal Bengal tigers that bite hard as it did in 2021 (Assembly elections),” Banerjee said adding “they want us to mortgage our spine to them like many other parties do … but we are Trinamool Congress … our spine is not made of ED and CBI like that of the BJP.”
Attacking the Narendra Modi Government for “destroying the economy of the country through its unplanned tax regimes and bad fiscal policies,” Banerjee said “today even there is tax on poor people’s food like puffed rice, flattened rice and even sweets, curd and batasha … they won’t even spare the patients … tomorrow they will charge tax on the dead people and the coffins.”
Alleging how Rupee was falling to the Dollar and how inflation and unemployment was on an all time high Banerjee said “this is a government that has declared direct war on the people by increasing the price of gas, diesel, petrol.”
To rub salt to injury the Government was selling out out of closing down public sector units like the SAIL, Coal India, Air India and even the Indian Railways. “They have cut down 80,000 railway jobs … they are selling out PSUs at a time when the country needs job creation the most,” she said slamming the saffron outfit for its arrogance.
“They are trying to rewrite the history of the nation such is their penchant for re-writing history and such is their arrogance that they are even discarding the old parliament building,” Banerjee said.