Top BJP leadership on Tuesday mounted scathing attack on the Mamata Banerjee Government while their cadres did the same physically on multiple Trinamool Congress addresses. Many shops and houses were vandalised in parts of East Midnapore moments after party president Amit Shah left the rally ground saying, “there will be no TMC Government by the mid-noon of the counting day.” He was referring to the coming general elections.
Both Shah and his party colleague Biplab Deb said BJP was a necessity in Bengal if the State were to be restored to its lost glory when it led India politically, culturally and economically.
While the Tripura Chief Minister compared his Bengal counterpart with blind King Dhritarashtra from a rally at Arambagh in Hooghly, accusing her of being blind to the “syndicate raj and terror raj” in her State, Shah linked the failure of the Bengal Government to compensate the chit fund depositors to the Ponzi masterminds’ purchasing her paintings for fantastic amounts. Alleging that every fifth person in the State was poor with no access to food he said the TMC was trying to suppress hunger with violence.
“If the communists gifted poverty to Bengal the Trinamool added syndicate raj and violence to it,” Shah said calling for a change of Government in the State “so that the much cherished Sonar Bangla (golden Bengal) can be restored here.”
He said that Banerjee was rebranding all the Central schemes to sell them in the State as her own creation he said “while the Centre introduced Swachchha Bharat, she implemented it as Nirmal Bangla, while the Centre brought Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao she renamed it as Kanyashri, while the Centre started Ayushman Bharat she replicated it as Swasthya Saathi,” complaining how the State Government was blocking Ayushman Bharat (a healt insurance scheme) from entering the State.