Addressing a poll rally at Egra in Purba Medinipur, the West Bengal chief minister accused the BJP of practising “politics of riot, loot and murder”, and urged everyone “to be on guard against outsiders appearing in their localities”
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee waves at supporters at a rally, ahead of the assembly polls, at Kalaikunda in West Medinipur. Pic/PTI
Branding TMC turncoats as “traitors”, party chief Mamata Banerjee on Friday said good riddance to those who have left her camp, adding that the “switch over has left BJP old-timers sulking” as the saffron party has chosen to field defectors over loyalists.
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Addressing a poll rally at Egra in Purba Medinipur, the West Bengal chief minister accused the BJP of practising “politics of riot, loot and murder”, and urged everyone “to be on guard against outsiders appearing in their localities”. The TMC, which has made ‘Bengali pride’ its core poll plank, has called the BJP a ‘party of outsiders’, as its top leaders hail from outside the state.
In an obvious reference to Suvendu Adhikari and Rajib Banerjee who had shifted allegiance to the BJP along with other leaders like Mukul Roy, the TMC supremo said “Gaddars, Mirjafars (traitors) have now become BJP candidates, to the dismay of old-timers of the saffron party.”
Noting that “these turncoats” had been given many responsibilities in the past, Banerjee said, “I will be monitoring every project so that its benefit reaches everyone.” Slamming the saffron party for chanting “Hari Hari in front and stabbing from behind”, the TMC chief claimed, “Chewing panparag and putting tilak on forehead, the BJP carries on attack on people.” Banerjee also asked the crowd not to vote for the CPI-M and the Congress either “as they are friends of the BJP.” The CPI-M, Congress and the fledgling ISF have formed an alliance in West Bengal.
Madan Mitra appears before ED in Saradha case
Senior TMC leader and the party’s nominated candidate from Kamarhati assembly constituency Madan Mitra appeared at the office of the ED in Kolkata on Friday, in connection with the Saradha chitfund scam probe. “Earlier also, I cooperated with the ED officials with regard to the probe. I shall also cooperate with them now. They have called me and asked for a few documents. I have come here to submit all the previous documents that I had submitted before,” said Mitra.
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