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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday alleged that the Election Fee of India chalked out seven-phase polls to allow Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his cupboard colleagues to hold out intensive campaigning utilizing the nation’s assets.
Addressing a public assembly at Gajol in Malda district in help of Maldaha Uttar TMC candidate Prasun Banerjee, a former IPS officer, Mamata Banerjee, the social gathering supremo, mentioned polls have been scheduled from April 19 to June 1 in order that Modi and his cupboard colleagues can journey on particular planes throughout the nation earlier than each section to “overwhelm the Opposition”.
“On earlier events, elections was over by Might however this 12 months, it has been prolonged until June 1 to allow Modi to go to varied locations on navy planes, whereas we’re made to rearrange for our personal transport, together with helicopters, that are additionally being booked by BJP leaders in order that we get little area,” she alleged.
“Persons are significantly inconvenienced by the scorching warmth however Modi is unperturbed as they (BJP leaders) are campaigning in VVIP consolation with all services at hand,” she added.
Ms Banerjee alleged that although the Union council of ministers led by Narendra Modi is a caretaker cupboard after the announcement of elections and the EC is in control of operating the executive equipment, the ballot physique is “toeing the road dictated by Modi and his social gathering colleagues”.
Attacking the BJP and Congress MPs from West Bengal, Ms Banerjee alleged that regardless of being elected from the state in 2019, none of them took up the state’s trigger relating to the discharge of MGNREGA funds by the Centre or constructing homes for the poor beneath PM Awas Yojana.
“However, our (TMC) MPs had been manhandled and arrested after they went to Delhi in November final 12 months to demand the discharge of MGNREGA funds,” she mentioned.
“However what have the Congress and BJP MPs finished for the poor? What has (Maldaha Uttar) BJP MP Khagen Murmu finished for job card holders of the state?” she questioned.
Ms Banerjee accused the CPI (M) and Congress of bolstering the BJP within the state and urged folks to not solid votes for any non-TMC candidate.
“I had coined the title of INDIA bloc. However INDIA bloc doesn’t exist in Bengal. For us, it exists exterior the state,” she mentioned.
“Our MP Mahua Moitra was expelled from Parliament for unmasking the misdeeds of the Modi authorities and its proximity to massive enterprise homes. TMC MPs had been focused by this vindictive authorities,” she added.
Stating that TMC MPs, together with Mamata Bala Thakur and Derek O’Brien, had been despatched again from Guwahati airport after they went to Assam after the names of 19 lakh Bengalis had been ignored of NRC, Banerjee asserted that her social gathering has all the time stood as much as “atrocities dedicated by the BJP authorities”.
“Whereas church buildings, mosques and different locations of worship had been vandalised in Manipur throughout the ethnic violence and the BJP governments within the state and the Centre regarded the opposite method, it was the TMC that stood by the affected folks,” he mentioned.
“They destroy locations of worship whereas we construct these. The BJP boasts about Ram temple, however what number of temples have they really constructed over the previous a number of years? It’s the TMC that has constructed Durga, Kali and Jagannath temples,” she claimed.
Ms Banerjee accused the BJP of conspiring to engineer riots by spreading faux information and movies on social media.
She claimed that ballot surveys telecast on TV channels had been “BJP impressed”, and asserted that the TMC will get an enormous variety of seats within the polls.
At one other public rally in Manichak in Maldaha Dakshin constituency in help of TMC candidate Shahnawaz Ali Raihan, Ms Banerjee flagged the problem of the Uniform Civil Code, accusing the BJP is “plotting to impose UCC by taking away folks’s particular person rights and liberty”.
“I’ll oppose UCC imposition tooth and nail,” she mentioned.
On BJP’s goal of profitable over 400 seats, Ms Banerjee mentioned, “They won’t win even 200 seats. In most states within the south and north, they may fare miserably.” A celebration can not win polls simply by relying on central forces, she mentioned.
“We’re not afraid of CBI, ED and NIA. Nevertheless laborious the BJP tries to make use of these businesses, it won’t come again to energy in Delhi,” she mentioned.
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