Congress leader in Lok Sabha Adhir Chowdhury on Monday called Mamata Banerjee a “supari agent” of Narendra Modi who had been fixed by the BJP to destabilize the UPA and weaken the Congress to prolong the life of the Hindutva brigade.
Chowdhury’s comments came soon after the Bengal Chief Minister blew the election bugle in Goa offering the Khela Shuru slogan at a publicmeeting in the tiny coastal state.
“As Mamata Banerjee attacks us and plays her games to weaken the Congress Party the BJP smiles behind the screens … This is because she is acting as BJP’s dalal (agent) … she has taken supari from NarendraModi to destabilize the UPA and finish the Congress so that the rightwing communal politics gets a prolonged lease of life,” Chowdhurysaid.
Banerjee and her Trinamool Congress had been demanding the centre stage in national scene on alleged grounds that the Congress had gone sluggish in matters of launching forceful movements and it had lostits place and potency as a party that can galvanise the oppositionagainst the BJP.
“To offer an apology for engineering defections in the Congress Mamata Banerjee has been accusing us of inaction … she has been telling that the Congress is not organizing forceful movements against the BJP …
But the large rally that was organised by the Congress in Jaipur on Sunday is a proof of its capability and genuine will to throw out the BJP,” Chowdhury said.
“The TMC and its leadership is out to weaken the Congress and break the opposition unity nationally because they want to help the BJP... Mamata Banerjee enjoys a long friendship with Modi and his party,” Chowdhury the Behrampore MP and Pradesh Congress president said.
Earlier the TMC chief in a rally in Goa told that she had come to the beach state not to divide but to unite the opposition parties.
“I have come to Goa not to share the votes, but to unite the votes. The only alternative force for the BJP may be the Trinamool Congress and the Trinamool alliance," she said even as former Goa Chief Minister and NCP leader Alamao Churchill joined her party making him the second big leader after Luizinho Faleiro another ex-Chief Minister and former Congress leader who joined the TMC a couple of months ago.
Banerjee told the people of Goa that she had not gone to that State to become the Chief Minister but to provide better services to them and relieve them from the oppressive rule of the BJP. Incidentally the TMC had earlier promised Griha Laxmi scheme entailing Rs 5,000 to every unemployed woman of that State --- a la Laxmir Bhandar scheme in Bengal. The scheme had however attracted massive criticism from other political parties.
The Bengal Chief Minister also launched the Khela slogan --- in Goa--- that had earned her a massive success in Bengal Assembly elections this year.