The Trinamool Congress and Congress continued to trade fire with Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee calling the tri-colour outfit a “party that cannot be trusted anymore because it has never fought against the BJP and compromised with it at several points.” The Congress leader Adhir Chowdhury immediately hit back calling her a “political traitor.”
While inaugurating a Kali Puja pandal in Kolkata the Chief Minister on Monday attacked the Congress for compromising with the BJP. “The Congress cannot be trusted anymore because BJP became stronger due to the Congress … they never challenged the BJP … they withdrew from the path of struggle and compromised with them (saffron outfit).” Saying that instead of fighting against the BJP the Congress had fought against the Trinamool Congress roundly helping the cause of the saffron party Banerjee said “we came out of the Congress-led UPA because we could understand that the party was gradually leaving the path of struggle … today there is no movement against rising petro prices … it is only the TMC which is fighting with its limited strength … people of Bengal have voted us to power thrice because they know that I will die but never compromise with the BJP.”
On her recent attacks against the Congress both in Goa and in Kolkata Banerjee said, “if you think that in Bengal you will fight against me in order to help the BJP in all the seats and you will think that I will say sweet words for you then you are thinking wrongly … I will pay you back in the same coin.”
The TMC is trying to spread its tentacles in states like Goa, Tripura, Punjab, Haryana where the Congress had a traditional base.