BJP party of rioters: Mamata; Modi calls TMC govt corrupt

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee; PM Narendra Modi. Pics/PTI

Branding the BJP as "a party of rioters", West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said, "We don't want violence, we don't want bloodshed, and we don't want the politics of retaliation to enter Bengal."

Admitting that the relief doled out after Cyclone Amphan by her government might have missed out "one or two" beneficiaries, she said BJP leaders were nowhere to be seen during the crisis. She claimed that BJP leaders "arrive here in choppers and planes from outside with bagful of cash to lure voters and loot votes" just ahead of elections.

Appeasement politics

Excoriating Mamata Banerjee for pursuing "appeasement and vote bank politics", and presiding over a corrupt administration, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday said her game will be over (khela shesh hobe) when votes for the assembly elections are counted on May 2.

Addressing a rally in Purulia, he alleged the ruling TMC never considered Dalits, backwards and Adivasis its own, and these sections were the worst victims of cut money culture and ‘Tolabaji' (extortion) by the state's ruling party. "The single-most important reason for infiltration is appeasement and vote bank politics being pursued by Didi's government," he said.

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