Home Minister Amit Shah today addressed a meeting of BJP Bengal’s social media and IT karyakartas in the city and said that the party would contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections on its social media strength because the regional media does not carry the message of the BJP “fearing Didi”, alluding to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
“If all of you social media warriors decide, you can have more reach than any channel or newspaper and no one can stop you from making Modi ji win. That is the reason you have the biggest responsibilities,” said Amit Shah at the meeting held at the heritage National Library on Tuesday, stating that the BJP would win more than 35 seats in West Bengal.
Shah also underlined the themes that the party’s social media team would focus on.
He assured that forming a BJP Government in West Bengal would mean the end of infiltration, cow smuggling and giving the citizenship rights to religiously persecuted people through CAA.
“Before 2015, Didi used to take the BJP lightly. The cut money collected from Bengal is used to buy palatial mansions in foreign countries but the same people roam around here with hawai chappal. People will no longer be hoodwinked by these optics. People will now ask for an account for everything,” he said.
Shah said, the karyakartas in Bengal have made the biggest sacrifices in history and have even attained martyrdom and the Karyakartas from Kashmir to Kanyakumari will stand by you. Look at the outcome we have achieved. We did not have a single MLA but today we have 77 of them in Bengal and 20 Lok Sabha members. If we can achieve 77 seats from zero, then we can form a Government with two-third majority also”.
He added that Bengal used to lead the nation in every aspect and the same Bengal “is today known for its cut money, syndicate, infiltration, dynasticism, corruption and bomb blasts”.
He exhorted the social media team to give 35 seats to Modi Ji “from the land of Syama Prasad Mookherjee, I guarantee that Modi Ji will make Sonar Bangla”.
Shah repeatedly brought up the deterioration of West Bengal under the Trinamool Congress. “When Didi ousted the communists in Bengal, people were happy and hoped that the condition of Bengal would be better. But what she gave instead was worse than that. Stacks of currency notes worth Rs.50 crore have been recovered from her Minister. But Didi calls him a Sipahi of the party”.
He said that under the leadership of Narendra Modi, “the entire nation is progressing fast but under Didi, the growth of West Bengal has stagnated. Because she is afraid that if the development schemes of Modi Ji are rolled out in West Bengal then the popularity of the BJP will increase”.
Shah said that Mamata Banerjee had put national security at stake for her vote bank politics by keeping the international borders open. “And the infiltrators vote for her,” he added.
Shah also brought up the Mahua Moitra issue, saying: “Didi’s MP shares her password with businessmen in exchange for gifts and now she is trying to safeguard that MP. How many questions were asked about the poor in Bengal? They will never do that because the poor cannot give them expensive gifts. Her other MP also mimics the Vice-President of India. Does it behove an MP?, he asked.
The Home Minister also said that the UPA Government gave Rs 2,09,000 crore to Bengal in 10 years while Modi ji gave Rs.7,17,000 crore in nine years. “Didi will have to account for every rupee,” he said.