Mamata Banerjee Tripura Rally: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday hit out at Bhartiya Janata Party and accused them of beating up political opponents if they dare to take out rallies in Tripura. The West Bengal CM further claimed that even a woman MP was not spared.
She was referring to the attack on Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP Sushmita Dev allegedly by BJP workers in Tripura during a public outreach programme near Agartala on Friday. The TMC seeks to dislodge the saffron party from power in the North-eastern state in the 2023 assembly election.
Denying the BJP's claims of violence on its workers in West Bengal, the TMC supremo said, "There is peace in West Bengal and it is not the peace of the graveyard."
"In contrast look at the happenings in your state (Tripura). Whoever dares to take out rallies opposing the BJP is hit with sticks. They don't even allow the injured TMC workers to be treated at a hospital. A young party worker was thrashed and he had to be rushed to the SSKM Hospital (in Kolkata)," Banerjee said at a rally in Siliguri.
Mamata Banerjee targets PM Modi
CM Mamata Banerjee also hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi. She said still 35 crore people have not yet received the Corona vaccine. She also questioned if Modi's picture is on the Corona certificate then why not on the death certificate. She also claimed that West Bengal had demanded 14 crore vaccine doses, but the state got only 7 crore doses.
Mamata Banerjee questioned that if a student cannot travel after getting Covaxin, then how did PM Modi travel after getting Covaxin. She also raised questions on why Covaxin is not approved by WHO.
Banerjee also said she has doubts about the Centre's much-touted achievement of reaching the 100 crore vaccination mark against Covid-19 in the country.
"If you consider the 18-year-old people, the total population will be 130-150 crore. The vaccination of children has not yet started and only 29.51 crore (people) got two doses.... No idea how they came at the 100 crore mark. It is hocus pocus," she said.
West Bengal, on the other hand, inoculated seven crore people with at least one dose, the state chief minister said.
"We will soon be able to reach 100 per cent vaccination despite getting inadequate supply from the Centre. We will procure on our own from vaccine makers," she said.
Banerjee said West Bengal is in the third place across the country in vaccination figures though, she claimed, it received fewer vaccines compared to UP, Maharashtra and Gujarat.