Describing BJP’s defeat and Aam Aadmi Party’s victory in Delhi Assembly elections as a defeat of hatred and money power and victory of democracy and development, Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday attacked the saffron outfit saying it was fast becoming a ‘Stateless party’ with the federal States going out of its hands one after the other.
The Chief Minister who congratulated her Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal for his hat-trick in the Capital polls said ‘politics of hatred and politics of vendetta has lost to democratic forces and politics for development. The Delhi elections have once again proved that the people want food, development, employment, peace and not hatred…. Look how the people of India voted for the BJP in 2019 General elections and in return it gave the people Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register for Citizens.’
She said if the BJP did not rectify itself then soon it will be routed from all the States in India. ‘They are fast becoming a stateless party and if they continue to spread hatred like this then they will soon they will get zero seats in India,’ she said accusing the BJP of playing politics of hate and vendetta to win elections.
‘Look how just eight months back they had tasted a resounding victory in the general elections. But they failed to retain that by taking anti-people steps. Today when the country’s economy is in the doldrums they are selling out the Government concerns, reducing jobs … and then in a bid to divert attention spreading politics of hatred. But the people of India have seen through their clever politics and have started rejecting them. Look how one after the other they lost Maharashtra, Jharkhand and now Delhi,’ she said.
‘The elections have proved that they have rejected their leaders, their money which they have been splurging to win elections and their spiteful politics… It has proved that false pride, fake news and money power will lead them nowhere in the Indian politics,’ she maintained.
On whether the Delhi elections were a referendum against the CAA and NRC, Banerjee remained non-committal on directly connecting the two issues. However she asserted ‘the people have made their minds clear that they want roti, kapra aur makaan more than anything else like NRC.’
She hoped the BJP will take a lesson from the defeat and retrace its steps and ‘reject CAA, NRC and other anti-people decisions.’
On whether she would attend Kejriwal’s swearing-in ceremony she said she would love to do that ‘but as you know my Assembly session is on and so I will have to take into account other engagements before taking a decision on attending his function in Delhi,’ adding ‘I have already congratulated Kejriwal ji for his massive victory.’
Meanwhile both the TMC and AAP supporters celebrated the BJP’s loss in Delhi at various places in Bengal.