At the Trinamool Congress’s (TMC) Dharamtala rally in Kolkata, Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav and TMC General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee harshly criticized the BJP government. They accused the BJP of employing unethical methods to maintain power and predicted its forthcoming fall.
“The government just wants to grab the position by any means. The people of Bengal have fought with the BJP and left them behind. The people sitting in the government in Delhi are only in power for the next few days,” Akhilesh Yadav said at the rally on Sunday.
He further added, “I said this in the Lok Sabha and will say it again today: the BJP government will fall very soon. The Delhi government is not going to stay; it is going to fall very soon.”
Additionally, General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee stated that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has halted all funding to Bengal and that the people gave them a lesson in the Lok Sabha elections. He also noted that the BJP government failed to secure 400 seats and only reached 240.
“BJP has stopped all funds to Bengal. In the Lok Sabha elections, people taught them a lesson. They said they would cross 400 seats but stopped at 240. They used the ED and CBI against the TMC but did not get victory.”
Further, he said, “Sandeshkhali is an example. They created a fake narrative, but the people of Sandeshkhali supported us. The BJP used Sandeshkhali as a weapon to defame Bengal. In the same Lok Sabha seat, the BJP lost by 3.50 lakh votes.”
The TMC commemorates its annual Shahid Diwas (Martyr’s Day) to honor the 13 individuals who were shot dead in Kolkata in 1993 during a protest by the West Bengal Youth Congress. On Sunday, a substantial crowd gathered in Esplanade for the rally.
