The saffron proliferation in Bengal is a direct outcome of a crumbling red fort. And the Trinamool Congress will never allow the “CPI(M) harmads” to resurrect into a “saffron jallads (butcher)”, Mamata Banerjee said on Wednesday.
The Bengal Chief Minister was addressing a rally at Bajkul in East Midnapore where she told a huge crowd that “the CPM’s harmads who had once unleashed a reign of terror in your area — eliminating tens of innocent people who left their homes never to come back — are now entering the saffron camp to rise their ugly heads once again. They will have to be stopped once again.”
Alleging that the CPI(M) was supplying manpower to the BJP and the Bengal unit of the Congress was playing a catalyst to this Mamata’s Bengal would never back a party that was responsible for driving away the Bengalis from Assam.
“They are trying to capture Bengal. But why will the people here vote for them when their party is driving away Bengalis from Assam in the name of Nation Register for Citizens. Out of 40 lakh people who are in NRC’s rejection list, 23 lakh are Hindu Bengalis,” Mamata said asking “will you still back the BJP which is victimising your brothers there in Assam?”
The BJP divide people on the basis of caste, language and religion and their Government in Gujarat was driving away the Biharis. Attacking the BJP Government for slapping demonetisation “that ruined the economy” Mamata said “the people from Bengal — particularly from Malda, Murshidabad, Midnapore North and South 24 Parganas who had gone to BJP-ruled States like Gujarat and Maharashtra are now coming back not only out of fear of persecution but also because they have lost their jobs due to demonetization.”
Listing the good works her Government had done notwithstanding an unfriendly and non-cooperative Central Government up there in Delhi Mamata said “we have introduced Kanyashree (providing cycle to lakhs of girl students), Rupashree (providing monetary help for higher studies), Sabuj Saathi (providing bicycles to boys), Rs 2 per kg rice to about 8 crore people, old-age and widow allowance scheme, apart from free education, and medical health in newly built superspeciality hospitals.”
None of the Governments in India could compete with her Government’s good works in Bengal . “But the BJP is trying to undermine the development by importing a new divisive culture in our State. They are trying to incite communal violence but we will not allow them to do so,” the Chief Minister said.