Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday launched a scathing attack on an “atheist” Left and a “Jamati” Trinamool Congress for systematically destroying Sanatani culture and playing divisive politics in pursuit of their respective selfish political agenda.
Vowing never to let the Marxists and the TMC to raise their “ugly heads” again in Bengal, Adhikari said, “the Nastik (atheist) communists destroyed Bengalis’ Sanatani culture for 34 years to perpetrate their rule of nonbelievers while the Jihadi Trinamool Congress played a dirty divisive politics, stoking a polarised environment so as to divert people’s attention and loot public money … but that is a thing of the past … the people of Bengal have elected us to power to restore order and we will do it.”
Slamming the communists for refusing to follow Sanatani rituals, he said, “The Left always shy away from putting tilak on their foreheads or tie any sacred threads on their hands.” Launching a massive broadside against the TMC for polarizing the people of the State in the name of caste, religion and language, he said, “while the people from Bihar, UP, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and other States were treated as ‘outsiders’, the illegal immigrants from Bangladesh were accorded undue hospitality just for the sake of vote bank politics.”
The main reason behind keeping the people polarized was to stick to power and use that power to earn money. “The TMC divided the people, exploiting the religious and linguistic fault lines to cling on to power by diverting their attention from real issues and earned thousands of crores … siphoning the scam money to foreign lands,” he said, adding, “none of that will be tolerated anymore in Bengal … the people of the State have risen up to reality … they trust that the BJP and the Sanatani government will bring back Bengal’s lost glory.”
The Chief Minister was speaking at a programme in Howrah ahead of the Chhath. Adhikari held yet another meeting at Bankura, where he promised large-scale development by ensuring environment-friendly industries, employment generation and construction of a four-lane highway linking industrial cities of Durgapur and Jamshedpur via Bankura.
Saying that the Left and the TMC would never be allowed to come to power in Bengal, he said.
“If they are thinking that they will return to power, then they are fooling themselves … I take a pledge not to let the Left and the TMC raise their ugly heads again in Bengal and will do all that is necessary to keep them away from power,” adding no politician who was involved in corruption and violence in the previous regimes would be spared. “Everyone will be taken to task for his misdeeds,” he said.
While senior TMC leader Kunal Ghosh hit back at the Chief Minister for misusing the people’s religious sentiments for political gains, CPI(M) leader Satarup Ghosh took a jibe at the Chief Minister, saying, “Indian Constitution allows being an atheist … which is not an offence … but accepting bribe money in front of the camera … as a former TMC leader and who subsequently joined the BJP was clicked to be doing is definitely unconstitutional and illegal.”