If left and Congress had made BJP’s “mysterious silence” on Trinamool Congress an electoral plank in their ongoing campaign in the Assembly polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday proceeded to blunt that weapon a great deal by launching a scathing attack on Mamata Banerjee for giving Bengal Saradha, Narada and bombs in the name of Parivartan.
Attacking Banerjee for shattering the people’s dream, he said the Trinamool Congress had given a call for Parivartan or change but “in the name of Prarivartan this Government gave you (people) Saradha and Narada (scams). So much so, that the whole leadership can be seen in the television accepting bribe,” and “guess who’s money they were looting.”
Modi who was holding his first election rally in Bengal wondered “did you want a change like this,” adding “what the left did in 34 years the Trinamool has done in five years. The CPI(M) ruined Bengal and the Trinamool has reached it to the graveyard.”
The Trinamool had indeed brought a Parivartan in Bengal he said. “But that change has come in the way how Mamata Banerjee conducts herself.
There is a change in her ways, her style of functioning. Today she has transformed herself into an emperor from a people’s leader and democracy has gone for a toss.” The people wanted a change but Banerjee had stabbed them in the back Modi said.
Once Bengal was the pioneer in industry and today the only industry in the State is that of bomb making he said reminding how nothing had changed in the State in the past five years of Trinamool rule.
“In Education the State continues to remain in the 12th place, in Health sector it has barely progressed to the 10th place from the 11th position during the left rule. In power it has marginally improved from 18th to 17th position and in Finance it continues to occupy the 8th place,” the Prime Minister said ridiculing the Bengal Chief Minister for taking credit in distributing subsidised rice to the poor.
“There the Centre gives
`27 subsidy in rice for the poor and here she takes credit that she is giving rice for free,” he reminded.
Attacking the Congress and the left for their “political hypocrisy” with equal force the Prime Minister thundered “while in Bengal these two parties are making friendship in Kerala they are fighting each other” adding the marriage of convenience was a product of power hunger where there no intention to serve the nation.
“One thing is common among the Congress, left and the Trinamool. All of them are against the BJP. Tomorrow they may unite against us” Modi told a huge gathering at the BNR ground at Kharagpur reminding only the saffron outfit was capable of giving Bengal the much cherished development.
“Today the youth of Bengal go out of the State as there is no job here. But the situation is not so in the BJP ruled States like Maharashtra, MP, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat and Rajasthan. If BJP comes to power in Bengal, this State will return to its glorious past,” Modi said reminding India under the saffron rule was the fastest developing economy of the world.”
listing his Government’s success he said it truly was the government of the poor as could be seen from the schemes like PM Mudra Yojna, farmers’ insurance and added he had three agendas “the agenda number one is development, agenda number two is quick development and the agenda number three is all-round development.”