Stepping up the attack on the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, the BJP on Sunday said the collapse of the Mamata Banerjee government was just a matter of time. Speaking at a party programme in his Bongaon Lok Sabha constituency in North 24 Parganas district, BJP MP Shantanu Thakur said the TMC government will not last beyond five months.
“The Mamata Banerjee government has outlived its utility. Had the TMC not resorted to widespread rigging in the recently concluded panchayat polls, the BJP would have bagged thousands more seats. But this is going to be the last election under the supervision of the TMC government where all the state machines, including the State Election Commission (SEC), have failed to play a neutral and impartial role,” Thakur, the Union Minister of State for Shipping, said.
“I have a hunch that this government will not last beyond five months,” he added. Talking to reporters after attending an organisational meeting to take stock of the party’s panchayat poll performance, BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar said, “Anything can happen at any time. Let’s see what happens.”
