Bengal Opposition Leader Suvendu Adhikari on Monday said that only a ‘double engine’ Government could pull his out of the muck that the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government had pushed it into.
Emerging from a meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah — the content of which he refused to divulge — Adhikari said the Bengal Chief Minister was running a government of corruption and appeasement and could be rescued by only a (BJP-led) double engine government at the Centre and the State. “Bengal’s future is bleak under this (TMC) government... The State’s debts have gone up by three times whereas unemployment has doubled” after Banerjee came to power, Adhikari said alleging how “the State’s condition is worse than a jangule Raj.” Adhikari”s meeting with Shah and his double engine claim statement comes barely weeks ahead of the declaration of the State’s panchayat elections.
Alleging how the central schemes were being hijacked by the State Government he said “the names of the central schemes are being changed by the TMC rulees to usurp their credit.” Apparently in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s suggestions to win over the minority votes too Adhikari alleged how the Bengal Chief Minister had decided to stage a 2-day dharna in Kolkata on days when Ramanavami and Ramadan coincide.
Adhikari also attacked the State Government for its alleged discriminatory policies alleging how he being the Leader of the Opposition was kept out of the facilitation programme of President Droupadi Murmu. “This is the way how the Leader of the Opposition is treated in Bengal,” he said.