In what is being viewed as yet another shot played at the minority gallery Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said the Congress, BJP and the left constituted the either sides of the same coin and had joined hands to demolish the Trinamool Congress which was the lone fighter against all odds like corruption and communalism.
Beginning her first electoral conference of workers aimed at toning up the rank and file the CM “remind you that we are not goingto stop with this small success of winning Bengal. Rather we will have to use this platform to conquer Delhi and we will definitely play an importantly role out there soon.”
This even her party announced the name of a “surprise candidate” in the form of Dr Parvez Ahmed son of former President Fakruddin Ali Ahmed as one of its contestants from Assam.
“Neither the left nor any other party but only the Trinamool Congress will emerge as the third largest outfit at the Centre” Banerjee said. Given its growing strength the Trinamool Congress was destined to come third at the national level she said.
“The Congress, BJP and the left are the either sides of the same coin.They are hand-in-glove with each other in Bengal to defeat theTrinamool Congress” she said adding the people of the State “wouldreject a corrupt Congress, a communal BJP and a destructive Marxists”who had demolished the State’s economy in the 34 years of their rule.
Accusing the Congress-led UPA of taking away Rs 75,000 crore in thename of debt recovery Banerjee said “the Congress had given loans tothe left Government and now they are recovering it from us” wondering“why our Government would be made liable for the wrongs done by theleft Government.”
launching a veiled attack at the Election Commission for fixing theelection dates in Bengal in a manner “that would be beneficial to somepeople” she said her party was prepared to take up any challengethrown at it.
Meanwhile the Trinamool Congress on Tuesday declared the names ofseven more candidates including a “surprise candidate” from Assam inthe form of the son of a former President.
Senior Trinamool leader Mukul Roy, “take the pride of announcing thecandidature of Dr Parvez Ahmed the son of former President FakruddinAli Ahmed from Barpeta” hoping he would win by a huge margin.