TMC Supremo Mamata Banerjee Launches Oust BJP Campaign
ONE day after The Lok Sabha rejected the Opposition moved Non-Confidence Motion against the Narendra Modi headed government by a huge majority, Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee held a massive rally in Kolkata asking the people to oust the BJP led central government in the next Lok Sabha elections. She accused BJP of trying to create an atmosphere of “lynching, hatred and violence” in the country. The Trinamool Congress supremo was reacting after a person was allegedly lynched by a group of people on the suspicion of smuggling cows in poll bound Rajasthan’s Alwar district on Friday night.”The BJP is trying to create an atmosphere of Talibans, lynching, hatred and violence. We don’t believe in their concept of Hinduism. Those who now rule the country have bloodstains on their hands,” the TMC supremo said at the annual Martyrs’ Day rally .”Everyday people are being lynched. Today also, one person was lynched. They (BJP) have unleashed religious terrorism. Before lecturing the states on taking steps against those involved in lynching they should ask their own leaders to behave,” Mamata said .Giving call of ‘BJP hatao, desh bachao’, the chief minister asserted that her party would win all the 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state and BJP’s strength would drastically come down to 150 across the country .Taking a dig at the saffron party for the collapse of a makeshift tent at PM Narendra Modi’s recent rally at Mindapore in the state, she said “They cannot build a pandal. How can they build the country?” Batting for a federal front to take on BJP , She announced that a mega rally of Opposition parties will be held in Bengal in January and said the front will form the next government after the 2019 Lok Sabha poll. “We (TMC) don’t bother about the chair. We only bother about the people and the country.”We will win all the 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state. It is our pledge. We will oust the BJP to save the country,” she said, stating that Bengal would show the way to the country after the next general elections.NDA has majority in Parliament they are outnumbered outside Parliament. BJP’s Lok Sabha seats will decrease in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Bihar, Odisha and West Bengal. Demonetization was the “biggest scam” in the country .TMC was not afraid of the CBI and ED .These are being used by the Centre for political vendetta. Keeping up her attack against the BJP, Mamata said “They (Modi) are talking about 2024. But let them first cross 2019. Our political fight against the BJP will continue”. Meanwhile, senior BJP leader and former Rajya Sabha MP, Chandan Mitra, who had resigned from the BJP recently , joined the TMC in her presence at the rally along with four Congress MLAs and former CPI(M) MP Moinul Hassan. The Congress MLAs who have joined her party are Samar Mukherjee, Abu Taher, Sabina Yasmin and Akhruzzman.Accusing the Congress, BJP and the CPI(M) of joining hands in Bengal against her party, she asked the Congress to make clear its stand. She has already succeeded in ousting Indian National Congress and Communist Party of India (Marxist) from the eastern state .
