Seeking votes for herself in the Bhawanipore Assembly by-elections Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday linked her victory to future emancipation of India from “Talibanisation” (read BJP regime).
Saying that her victory would lay the foundation of all future struggles against right wing communalism Banerjee said “I need each of your votes because that one vote can create the difference … if I lose then someone else would be the Chief Minister but my victory would obviously intensify the struggle against Talibanisation of India … India’s freedom from a Talibani culture depends upon this election.”
Vowing to throw out the “Taliban raj” she said “I will do all possible things to ensure that India is not radicalized … India has always been a tolerant state and it will continue to remain so … we will never let India to be Talibanised.”
Attacking the Centre and the Delhi Police which functions under the Union Government Banerjee said “those who talk about law and order situation in Bengal should see how today three under trials were killed in a broad-day light shoot-out inside a high security court in Delhi … this means that there is no law and order there … in fact there is no law and order in any BJP-ruled State … be it Tripura, Assam, UP, Bihar or elsewhere.”
Claiming that her regime had transformed Bengal into a front ranking State she said, “today Bengal is among the top three States of the country … Bengal's version of Silicon Valley is developing at a brisk pace, the Left Front had left 12 universities but I have made 34 … the health sector has revolutionised with more multi-super speciality hospitals coming up … the existing hospitals have been decked up … we have unleashed a plethora of social schemes to
encourage education, employment and women’s empowerment.”
She said that in coming 20 years Bengal would become the number one State in the country in terms of development and industrial activity.
“Recently a team from Australia has come to conduct a survey … it has found that Bengal with all its resources and potentiality will become the number one industrially developed state in the country,” she said.
By-elections to Bhawanipore seat will take place on September 30. The Chief Minister is seeking election from this seat which incidentally is her home too as she was defeated in the April-May Assembly elections from Nandigram seat where she was contesting against her main rival Suvendu Adhikari.