Amit Shah Confident Of Forming Govt, Says Bengal Won’t Forgive Mamata

Addressing a rally in Howrah, Shah alleged that a party, which supports infighting and insults ‘Jai Shri Ram’ cannot retain any of its members. Shah’s outburst came a day after former West Bengal Forest Minister Rajib Banerjee quit the TMC and joined the BJP along with four other party leaders.

Amit Shah

Launching a frontal attack on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday expressed confidence of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) forming a majority government in West Bengal and said it is high time the Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief introspects as to why many leaders are quitting her party.

Addressing a rally in Howrah, Shah alleged that a party, which supports infighting and insults ‘Jai Shri Ram’ cannot retain any of its members.

Shah’s outburst came a day after former West Bengal Forest Minister Rajib Banerjee quit the TMC and joined the BJP along with four other party leaders.

“I have told Rajib Banerjee that we will form majority government in Bengal. Many leaders are leaving the TMC. Mamata should introspect why,” he said.

Taking a jibe at the Chief Minister, Shah said the state wants real change and not the “poriborton” promised by the TMC supremo.

“Mamata had promised ‘poriborton’. Look back at the past 10 years. Maa, Maati, Manush have faded into the background. Mamata Didi, Bengal won’t forgive you,” he said.

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Continuing his tirade, the former BJP chief addressing the rally via video conferencing said: “The way TMC, Left and Congress leaders are joining the BJP, Mamata Didi you would turn back and see no one by the time the elections are here.”

Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani, who was present on stage during the BJP rally at Howrah’s Dumurjala stadium, also left no stones unturned in taking potshots at the West Bengal Chief Minister.

“A party that supports infighting, insults the slogan of ‘Jai Shri Ram’.... nobody can stay in that party. I want to tell Didi that you may have abandoned the ‘Jai Shri Ram’ slogan but under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a Ram temple is being made and Ram Rajya is knocking on Bengal’s doors,” she said.

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The rally was attended by several TMC turncoats, including Suvendu Adhikari and Rajib Banerjee. Adhikari too voiced his ire, saying the “Trinamool Congress is no longer a party but a private limited company”. 

“By February 28, TMC private limited company will be vacated, nobody will be left there,” he claimed.

Rajib Banerjee on his part pitched for a double engine government in West Bengal.

“We want Bharatiya Janata Party government at both the Centre and state for ‘Sonar Bangla’,” he said.

The BJP and TMC have been at loggerheads in the run up to the elections to the 294-member West Bengal Assembly due in April-May this year.