Smarting from the Centre’s alleged non-release of NREGA funds — desperately needed to be cleared ahead of the next year’s rural elections — a fuming Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday attacked the Narendra Modi Government for running an “adulterated” system. NREGA is national rural employment scheme ensuring 100 days’ work for the rural population.
Calling upon the parties to dislodge the BJP from power in 2024 the Chief Minister said “Modi babu is celebrating eight years in power but let me tell you that BJP will be gone in the general elections … There will be ‘No Entry’ board for the BJP in 2024 … the people of India will ensure that the adulterated politics of hate and violence gets no place in the country.”
In an apparent bid to join cause with the other opposition parties like Laloo Yadav, Satyendra Jain et al Banerjee said “they (Centre) are sending central agencies at the doors of opposition leaders … sending them to jail on various vindictive pretexts … But what about the counterfeit currency that the BJP Government circulated after demonetization … all the Rs 500 notes are counterfeit … this Government is a counterfeit Government … for this reason all agencies should knock at the doors of all the BJP leaders and all their leaders should be sent to jail.”
The Chief Minister whose nephew Abhishek Banerjee is facing charges in coal and cattle smuggling cases said “the BJP is sending CBI, ED after some people for coal and cattle scam … but both coal and cattle are to be minded by the Centre … while the coal mines are taken care of by the central forces the BSF has to guard the smuggling of cow … so how come other people who is not related to the Central government in the picture … this a clear vendetta politics and that must end.”
She said that the people are determined to throw the BJP out of power, as they were “fed up with their anti-people schemes and fake promises” adding people were losing jobs, prices were going high and they (BJP) was busy scheming plans against the opposition leaders and creating a communal division in the society.
“This Government must go and they will go in 2024 because the people have decided to throw them out of power … there will be No Entry board for the BJP after 2024,” Banerjee said.