The Bengal BJP has strongly reacted to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s comments that India was witnessing super emergency under Narendra Modi Government.
State party president Dilip Ghosh said before making such comments the Chief Minister should herself look at how she was running Bengal where “the ruling party wins 30 percent of panchayat seats without contest, where the Opposition workers are forced to join the Trinamool Congress either at gunpoint or by power of money, where the Opposition party offices are forcefully occupied by the ruling party.”
Banerjee had on Saturday called upon the like-minded parties to unite against the saffron dictatorship saying “India is going through a super emergency.”
She said on the Twitter: “today is International Day of Democracy. (but) It anguishes me that our country is currently going through a Super Emergency,” and called upon all the anti-BJP forces to join hands to throw out the “dictatorial regime.”
She wrote “all the like-minded parties should come together in 2019 to restore the democratic institutions of this great nation.”
Her statement came hours after she said the BJP would fail to reach anywhere near its 2014 feat when it got 31 percent of votes winning 283 seats in the Lok Sabha elections that year and reminded how the saffron outfit had “failed in all respects.”
Attacking Ghosh for pointing fingers at TMC’s alleged rigging in this year’s panchayat elections senior TMC leader and Minister Sadhan Pandey said the BJP leader should have looked at the panchayat election results of Tripura before accusing the TMC as “the BJP has won 96 percent panchayat seats and all the 18 district board seats uncontested in that State.”
Meanwhile, the Chief Minister on Sunday morning left for a 12-day trip to Germany and Italy to bring investments, sources said. She was being accompanied by Finance Minister Amit Mitra, Chief Secretary Malay Dey and Finance Secretary HK Dwivedi.
Banerjee who was likely to return on September 28 said she had been invited by top industrialists and businessmen from those countries.
She was likely to visit Frankfurt and Milan.
“I am going to Frankfurt and Milan to bring more business and industry to the State. We will be holding two meetings (in the two cities),” she said before leaving for Germany via Dubai.