Hours after Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumarswamy backed Mamata Banerjee for the Prime Ministerial chair a visibly thrilled Trinamool Congress leadership said the JD(S) leader’s statements testified Bengal Chief Minister’s acceptance throughout the country.
Senior State Minister and TMC general secretary Partho Chatterjee on Monday said though Banerjee currently was for postponing all other considerations so that all parties could concentrate only on dislodging the Narendra Modi Government, Kumarswamy’s statement only underscored her abilities and acceptance.
His comments “only underscore the ability and acceptance of Mamata Banerjee throughout the country,” Chatterjee said adding “though Mamata Banerjee is not in the Central Government now Mr Kumarswamy’s statements prove that she is anyway in the centre of everything.”
Kumarswamy had earlier told agencies that the Bengal Chief Minister by dint
of her long stint as a good administrator had developed all the capabilities to lead the country.
He said, “She is simplest of the simple and a very good administrator. I believe that Mamata ji has all the capabilities of leading the country and she has already proved herself by leading West Bengal for so many years.”
Kumarswamy was one of the 23 national leaders to join the Trinamool Congress’ sponsored United India rally at the Brigade Parade Ground on Saturday.
Meanwhile, in a parallel development Banerjee on Monday attacked the BJP for carrying out disinformation campaign against her Government over the change in landing location of BJP
president Amit Shah’s chopper at Malda in North Bengal where he will hold a rally later this week.
The BJP was distorting facts she said adding her Government had already granted her permission for the Malda rally. “We gave permission for the meeting without objecting to it,” she said adding the “police had only said that the chopper should land at some other location because of some security reasons. But they are unnecessarily creating a hullabaloo over it.”
The issue was however solved following reports that Shah’s chopper would land at the BSF helipad.
The BJP president was to hold a series of rallies in Bengal apart from the one’s to be addressed by Prime Minister whose reported February 8 rally at Brigade Parade Ground stood to be cancelled.
“The Central leadership has said that it will not be easy to hold the Prime Minister’s rally at Brigade at such a short notice and so it will be deferred to March after the Class-X and plus-two exams,” State BJP sources said, adding “Modi ji however would hold four rallies in between at various locations in the State.”