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'Bengal Means TMC': Mamata Ups The Ante Ahead Of Polls, Backs Mahua Moitra

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said that Congress is contesting the upcoming Lok Sabha polls in alliance with Left and voting for them would mean voting for the BJP.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee trained guns on its I.N.D.I.A bloc partner, Congress saying that the grand old party was contesting the polls in alliance with the Left and voting for them would mean voting for the Bharatiya Janata Party. The Trinamool Congress also backed her party candidate Mahua Moitra who was expelled from Lok Sabha last year in the cash-for-query case. 

Speaking at a rally in West Bengal's Nadia, Banerjee said that the saffron party will "lose badly" in Bengal and said that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 and National Register for Citizens will not be implemented in the state. 

"Congress is contesting the elections in alliance with the Left here. Voting for them means voting for BJP...BJP is saying that it will get 400 seats, if it is so then why are ED and CBI being used? BJP will lose badly in Bengal," she said.

"CAA and NRC will not be implemented in Bengal."

Extending support to Moitra, the West Bengal CM said, "Did you people see what happened to Mahua Moitra? Just because she speaks in Parliament. You people have to make Mahua Moitra win and also make TMC win all 42 seats of Bengal...Bengal means only Trinamool Congress (TMC) and no one else..."

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Moitra, who is already under the scanner in the cash-for-query case, had been summoned by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with irregularities in a foreign exchange contravention case. The former MP from Krishnanagar has skipped the three summons sent to her to join the probe. 

"People of India are watching and more importantly, people of Krishnanagar are watching. Every time they come after me, my votes are increasing," she said on Sunday. 

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