Close on the heels of bequeathing Bharat Ratna on former President Pranab Mukherjee, the BJP on Sunday set about redeeming its political proceeds telling the Bengali populace how the Congress, Trinamool Congress and ilks ignored “one of the greatest son’s of Bengal in recent times.”
Addressing a rally at Howrah, Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi said the former President was another victim of its dynastic politics.
As Mukherjee would not fit into the dynastic schemes of Janpath’s schemes he was not only ignored for the Prime Ministerial chair but also never considered for the Bharat Ratna — a gross Governmental error that was rectified by Prime Minister Narendra Modi who conferred India’s topmost honour on the “highly qualified son of Bengal,” Sushil Modi said.
“Bengal has been on the forefront of everything. No region in India had produced so many great men as Bengal did. Notwithstanding it was ignored perennially to the extent that it is counted among one of the most backward States today,” the Bihar BJP leader said, adding the saffron outfit would put Bengal on the developmental tracks if it was voted to power.
Apparently wary of promising high sounding nothings (read jumlas) like it happened ahead of 2014 general elections a more circumspect Dy Chief Minister promised his audience, “Within a decade of coming to power we will show what development means to the people of this State. We will completely change Bengal within ten years of voting to power in this State.”
On the chances of winning the elections in Trinamool Congress-ruled State the lesser Modi said Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s days were numbered as her regime would soon come crashing like it happened to late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi after the close of infamous Emergency.
“After clamping Emergency Indira Gandhi though that she would sweep the parliamentary elections. But soon she could realize her folly and her empire came crashing down. A similar fate is awaiting Mamata Banerjee whose despotic and oppressive rule would be uprooted by the BJP with the help of the people of Bengal — have faith on the pro-saffron wind blowing in this State,” he said.
Comparing Banerjee’s regime with the one ran by former Bihar Chief Minister Laloo Yadav, the Dy Chief Minister of that State said “like it happened during Laloo Yadav’s Bihar — when no booth was left uncaptured and no election went unrigged — elections are rendered into a farce in your State.”
In Bihar ruled by Nitish Kumar not a single death “nor even an injury occurs even during rural polls. But in TMC’s Bengal we heard how one hundred people died during last year’s panchayat elections and how most of the booths were captured,” he said adding “the people would throw the TMC out if they get a chance to vote and this time round such chance was going to be created for them.”