Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday attacked the BJP telling it to ask for forgiveness from people before asking for vote.
Launching a scathing attack on the saffron party on a whole range of issues from an election rally in Uttar Pradesh Banerjee said , "the BJP is asking for votes but before asking for votes they should should ask for forgiveness for what was done in Unnao ... They should ask for forgiveness for what happened in Hathras before asking for votes."
Attacking BJP for the enactment of Citizenship Amendment Act Banerjee said, "they are asking for votes but they should ask for forgiveness for tbe CAA."The Trinamool Congress chief had on Monday left for Lucknow to address a virtual meeting in support of Samajwdi Party.
Raising the farmers' issue, the Bengal Chief Minister asked whether BJP had any repentance for the farmers' death during farm movement. "Have they asked for forgiveness for the farmers' deaths ... First let them ask for forgiveness for that before asking for votes."
Banerjee who was earlier invited by SP chief Akhilesh Yadav to campaign for his party in UP said that her party would have liked to contest against the BJP bur decided to refrain from doing so because "there is no point in allowing opposition votes to get divided."
To this Congress Lok Sabha leader and Bengal Pradesh Congress president Adhir Chowdhury questioned her "double standards" in Goa and UP."If she knows that division of votes will give BJP a better chance then why the TMC is contesting against the Congress in Goa," the Congress leader asked.
Meanwhile in an unrelated development the infighting continued both in the BJP and TMC over distribution of tickets for the upcoming elections to 108 civic boards if Bengal.
While hundreds of rebel TMC men continued to protest in a dozen of districts the disgruntled BJP workers too protested in Nadia, West Midnapore and other places.