After West Bengal government denied permission to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s chopper to land in the state, Yogi addressed rallies through telephone from Lucknow, hitting out at Mamata Banerjee’s government, saying it was anti-people, anti-democratic and was spreading anarchy in the state.
Yogi Adityanath was scheduled to address two rallies in Balurghat and Raiganj in south and north Dinajpur districts of West Bengal on Sunday. However, the West Bengal government denied permission to his chopper to land near the rally ground, forcing Yogi to address both the rallies by telephone.
UP Chief Minister’s secretariat on Sunday released a statement saying that the West Bengal government denied permission to the chopper of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to land near rally ground without any prior notice. Bharatiya Janata Party in-charge of West Bengal, Kailash Vijayvargiya, in a statement condemned West Bengal government’s decision.
“In democracy, such act is condemnable. This shows how afraid Trinmool Congress is after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rally in West Bengal,” he said in the statement.
The BJP said that three days back permission were sought for the rallies and for the chopper to land at both venues. Though the permission for the rallies was given, but permission was denied to the chopper to land by the district authorities, it added.
UP government spokesperson and state Energy Minister Shrikant Sharma said the TMC government was so afraid of Yogi Adityanath that Mamata Didi directed the district officials to deny permission (to Yogi’s chopper to land in West Bengal).
On the other hand, the BJP posted a poster in the social media with a title ‘Didi Dar Gayi’ and a picture of Yogi chasing Mamata with a stick.
Addressing the rally, Yogi said the Mamata government was anti-democratic and it promoted anarchy in the state.
“The TMC government of West Bengal is afraid of BJP’s popularity therefore it first stopped Amit Shah’s Rath Yatra and now prevented me from addressing the rallies. Thanks to the digital initiative of the Narendra Modi government I am able to address the rally,” he said.
“The need of the hour is to fight this undemocratic government tooth and nail. The political opponents are being killed or beaten up in Bengal whenever they ask for their democratic rights. What can be more unfortunate that people in Bengal are prevented from celebrating Durga Puja in the state because the head of the government believes that such decisions will help her to win votes of a particular religious section of society,” Yogi said.
Yogi said the TMC leaders were living in fool’s paradise as such decisions do not help any government but weaken the democratic values of the country.
Yogi also talked about the policies of the Modi government and how they had changed the face of the country. He said the recent budget was one of the best and would help the people.
Referring to various central schemes which had been stopped from being implemented in West Bengal, Yogi said the TMC had no right to deprive the people from benefits offered by the Central government.
“Bengal, which had been the torch-bearer of democracy in the country. is forced to face the dictatorship of the TMC,” he said, and added, “We have to shatter this undemocratic model.”
The UP Chief Minister also referred to former President Pranab Mukherjee, whom, he said, the Government of India honoured with the Bharat Ratna.”