Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday ended his unprecedented war of words with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee by calling her an arrogant person who would soon be punished by the people for considering Bengal her personal property.
Attacking the Chief Minister for “her ballooning arrogance” Modi said “Mamata didi has tormented democracy as nobody has just because of her arrogance.
“This is because she thinks that Bengal is her personal property. But the freedom-loving people of Bengal have read through your party’s mischief and have decided to teach you a lesson,” Modi told a rally at Dum Dum, in South 24 Parganas.
Comparing the situation in Bengal with that of terror-hit Jammu & Kashmir, Modi said “even in terror-hit Jammu & Kashmir the panchayat and then general elections did not see a single incident of violence whereas in Bengal each and every phase of elections have witnessed violence.”
From the first phase to the sixth phase “there was not a district or not a seat that did not witness violence and bloodshed,” he said alleging “this is all the result of your ballooning ego. You think that Bengal is your personal property and you are getting angry out of the frustration of defeat staring in your face.”
Modi said, “Didi’s anger stems from the fact that the people have rejected him and she cannot accept this truth,” adding “I advise you Didi to accept the truth that the people have rejected you. You considered yourself the supreme leader of Bengal but you forgot that the people are the supreme in democracy.”
In an apparent bid to allure the youth he said “Didi you are facing not the old Left but the young of 21st century generation of Bengal who would give you a befitting reply.”
In what experts called a bid to divide the State along linguistic lines Modi said “Banerjee had problems with the people of UP, Bihar and other States living in Bengal but she does not have problems with the infiltrators.”
Apparently aware that the damage of Ishwar Chandra Vidya Sagar’s statue by alleged BJP youth had hurt the Bengali sentiments Modi said he would get a new 5-metal statue constructed.
Criticising Banerjee for “insulting the Election Commission, CAPF and other constitutional institutions” for allegedly “playing partisan role in the elections,” Modi said “these are the same bodies which saved you from the Left violence. Had they not been there in 2009 and 2011 you would never have been the Chief Minister of this State.”
He said, “you are free to dream to become a Prime Minister but you have no right to abuse the constitutional authorities of the country.”