Agartala, May 5 (PTI) Senior BJP leader Biplab Kumar Deb on Tuesday claimed that the Trinamool Congress, which had ruled West Bengal for 15 years, is a “gone case” now after the crushing defeat in the recently concluded assembly elections.
The BJP secured 207 seats in the 294-member assembly, ending the TMC’s uninterrupted 15-year rule in West Bengal and marking a decisive shift in the state’s political landscape.
“The Trinamool is a gone case now after the defeat in the West Bengal elections. I thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for liberating the people from the misgovernance of the Trinamool Congress government,” said Deb, who played a key role in guiding the BJP to the historic triumph as co-in-charge of the party’s West Bengal elections.
The former Tripura chief minister declared the West Bengal Assembly election result a “historic” win for democracy and a rejection of the TMC’s “politics of fear, appeasement, and mismanagement”. He emphasised it was a mandate for development under PM Modi and indicated a “liberation” for the people of Bengal.
He also praised the people of West Bengal for coming out in large numbers to vote for regime change.
On his new responsibility, the former chief minister replied, “Whatever responsibility has been assigned to me by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, I performed wholeheartedly,” he said.
Asked who would be the chief minister of Bengal, the West Tripura MP said the party will decide on the issue.
Earlier, thousands of party leaders and workers gave a rousing welcome to Deb upon his arrival at MBB airport here after the BJP’s victory in Bengal. He also went to the Maa Tripura Sundari temple and offered prayers. PTI PS RG
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