Bengal Opposition leader Suvendu Adhikari on Friday gave out a no-vote-to-Mamata-Banerjee-call blaming the Bengal Chief Minister for all the ills the State was presently in.
Addressing a massive saffron rally at Burdwan, Adhikari accused Banerjee of planning the communal riots at Howrah and Rishra in order to create a communal divide so as to arrest the steady flight of minority votes from the ruling Trinamool Congress.
“After the comprehensive defeat faced by the TMC in the Sagardighi Assembly by-elections where the minorities accounted for more than 67 per cent votes the Chief Minister has gone mad … this is the reason her party is trying to ignite communal riots at various places and big examples of this plan was Howrah and Rishra where the police working at the behest of the government allowed the communal disturbance to take place.
“These communal riots are being incited in order not only to polarise the voters but also to divert the attention of the people from the misrule that her Government has perpetrated in Bengal,” the BJP leader said reminding “at Sagardighi it is not the question as to who has won … the issue is TMC has been defeated.”
Calling Banerjee the source of all anomalies in Bengal Adhikari said, “She is running a Government of thieves … where all kind of corrupt acts are being practiced under the instruction of the queen of the thieves.” A Government that had presided over recruitment scams, cattle and coal smuggling, illegal stone and sand mining rendering most of the rivers of the State flood prone should not be allowed to continue in power, Adhikari said adding, “as the people are getting fed up with a government of thieves the Chief Minister is trying to divert their attention by provoking communal disturbances.”
Saying how the State Government allowed riots to happen in Howrah and Rishra on the Ramnavami and how possible communal violence was prevented a few days later on Hanuman Jayanti by simply deploying central forces Adhikari said, “the two instances go on to prove the State Government and the Trinamool Congress’ true intentions to stick to power by hook or by crook.” Telling the government personnel, particularly the police force as to how they were being deprived of their rightful Dearness Allowances (DA),
Adhikari said a small example will suffice showing how this thief of a government is polishing off all the funds and depriving the government staff, who have been working hard for its success. “In the present DA regime a Constable is getting RS 18,000 less, an ASI is getting Rs 20,000 less whereas an SI is getting Rs 22,000 less … hence it is for them to decide whether they should continue to help this government,” Adhikari said.
Appealing to the farmers he said that in the Mamata Banerjee regime the farmers were starving whereas she was laying the blame at the doors of the Central Government. “They are not only stealing the money and natural resources but they are also stealing the central schemes as a result of which Swacchha Bharat is becoming Nirmal Bangla, PMAY is becoming Bangla Awas Yojana,” he said asking the people to vote the corrupt government and the Chief Minister out of power. Iterating that he was given a task by Prime Minister Narendra Modi the
BJP leader said “Modi ji had told me when I joined the BJP that I must defeat Mamata Banerjee which I successfully did … now there is a second and more important objective which is to oust the TMC from Bengal and that has to be done by the people for which I have given the call ‘No Vote to Mamata”
Meanwhile, the agitating State government employees have asked for central forces in the forthcoming panchayat elections. One of their senior
leaders leading the DA struggle against the Government said, “all these years we have seen how votes were looted … but this year we will not let that happen and we will demand central forces not only for our safety but also for safety of voters,” the leader said.