Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a scathing attack on the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal on Sunday and said that the state would soon show the “Ram card” to the ruling dispensation in the coming Assembly elections.
Addressing a rally at Haldia in east Midnapore, PM Modi said that Trinamool government in West Bengal is nothing but the rebirth of the erstwhile Left rule. “In the first year of the Mamata government, it became clear that what Bengal had got was not ‘parivartan’ (change) but revival of Left and that too with interest. It was the revival of corruption, crime, violence and attacks on democracy,” he said.
He also warned the voters of West Bengal to be careful about the ruling TMC’s secret partners while voting in the Assembly polls. “We need to be very careful of Trinamool’s secret partners while casting votes in the coming state Assembly elections. The Left and the Congress are hand-in-gloves with the Trinamool Congress. If you cast votes to the Left-Congress alliance, it will actually help the Trinamool Congress here,” he said.
PM Modi said that the people of Bengal need to be careful about that. “These three parties mix up together in closed rooms in Delhi and prepare their political strategies to loot poor people. The Trinamool Congress is in connivance with the Left and the Congress,” he pointed out.
Slamming the Mamata government, PM Modi said that people of Bengal welcomed a change and trusted Mamata Didi for a better tomorrow. “But what she did was just a repetition of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)-led Left Front had done to Bengal during their 34-year long regime,” he said.
This is PM Modi’s second official visit to Bengal within two weeks. His first visit—in January to mark the birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose –triggered a huge flashpoint with the Mamata government after the “Jai Shri Ram” slogan controversy at the venue.