People’s befitting reply to appeasement, protection to infiltrators: Shah on results
Hailing the BJP’s massive win in West Bengal as “historic”, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday said people of the state have sent a strong message to infiltrators and their sympathisers, highlighting that parties engaged in the politics of appeasement will not forget this lesson.
Without naming outgoing Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who lost in her pocket borough of Bhabanipur, Shah said on ‘X’, “Hats off to the people of Bhabanipur. Their mandate has made it clear what fate awaits an anarchic ruler.”
In a series of posts, he remarked that the overwhelming public mandate reflects the people’s response to those who create fear, appeasement, and protection to infiltrators.
“Millions of salutations to the people of Bengal...This is the victory of trust in Shri @narendramodi ji over the TMC’s ‘fear’. For every BJP worker like me, this is a moment of pride that from the source of Mother Ganga in Gangotri to Gangasagar, today the BJP’s saffron flag is proudly waving everywhere,” the home minister said.
He described the BJP’s “historic victory” in Bengal as the outcome of the sacrifices, struggles, and “martyrdom” of countless workers.
“It is a triumph of the patience of those families who, even while enduring violence, never abandoned the saffron flag. In this arduous journey of the BJP from zero to a resounding majority today, I bow to all those workers who offered their lives, endured violence, suffered tortures, and yet never wavered from the path of ideology and to their families. The people of Bengal have paid tribute to all those martyred BJP workers through this resounding majority,” he said.
The BJP on Monday surged past the majority mark in West Bengal, winning 202 seats and leading in four others, to end the 15-year rule of the Trinamool Congress and redraw the state’s political map in saffron hues. Shah expressed confidence that the hopes and aspirations demonstrated by Bengal through this trust in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership will be fulfilled.
“The people of Bengal have taught such a lesson to the infiltrators and their sympathisers that the parties indulging in the politics of appeasement will never be able to forget,” he said.
Shah also affirmed that the BJP will work tirelessly to restore the lost glory of Bengal, a sacred land that has been home to great figures such as Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Swami Vivekananda, Guru Tagore, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, and Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, while striving to realise the dream of ‘Sonar Bangla’.
