Purulia: Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of lying and said when he attacked her party of being a “tolabaaz” (toll collector), she wanted to give him a “tight slap of democracy.”
Addressing an election rally here, she launched a scathing attack on PM Modi and said: “Money does not matter to me. That is why when Narendra Modi came to Bengal and accused my party of being Tolabaaz (toll collector), I wanted to give him a tight slap of democracy. Seeing this kind of lying PM, children will learn the wrong things and the country will face a downfall.”
Continuing her tirade against Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), she accused them of carrying “gada” (mace) to break the head of the people and “talwar” (sword) to cut their throat. “Now they have lacs and crores of rupees. They move with money boxes, gada in one hand and talwar in another. This is their politics with no ideology,” she said.
West Bengal has a total of 42 Lok Sabha seats of which polling for 17 seats is yet to be held in the sixth and seventh phases of the Lok Sabha elections on May 12 and 19.
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1. We all know that Smt Mamata Bannerjee, West Bengal (WB) chief minister and head of Trinamool Congress, as also many leaders of the Congress party in WB, and of course all factions of the Communists, are uncomfortable with fact that BJP’s popularity is growing in WB. They are making all efforts to defeat BJP and this is understandable. 2. However, to say that if BJP wins in Lok Sabha again in 2019, our democracy will be in danger is a far-fetched statement that appears to have been made more to attract newspaper headlines, and not with seriousness it deserves. 3. In context of what Ms Mamata Bannerjee say about BJP’s Hindutva politics, my question is this: are political parties, who claim to be truly secular, ready to do some critical self-examination to find out reasons of growth of BJP in WB and in many North Eastern States where BJP had very little presence about a decade ago? 4. I wish to say here that Congress and regional parties like SP, BSP Trinamool Congress, RJD JD(S), NCP and the Communists, who all claim to be opposed to the fundamentalist BJP, have still not shown willingness and courage to oppose the fundamentalists in the India Muslim community. That I suppose is one major reason why the educated middle class has moved closer to BJP. Are the opposition parties ready to accept this situation and fight BJP on ideological grounds?
Very good points
If Didi party join BJP all Goondagiri would rephrased as Gandhigiri.
The worst state in the country. It is ruled by goondagiri no matter which government congress/cpm/TMC or even BJP if that comes to power. People there love violence