Mamata Banerjee: Mamata Banerjee assailed the Mallikarjun Kharge-led Trinamool Congress on Wednesday, claiming that their affiliation with the CPI(M) will bolster the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), amid the Congress party’s attempts to appease the leadership of the party for an alliance in West Bengal. She said that the Congress had rejected her offer of two seats, therefore ending the INDIA bloc in the state.
Congress’s Lack of Presence in State Assembly
“The Congress does not have even one MLA in the state assembly… I offered them two Lok Sabha seats, both in Malda, but they wanted more. So, I told them I will not share a single seat with them. CPI(M) is their leader… have they forgotten the tortures of the CPI(M)?” she said at an event in Bengal. Mamata Banerjee declared that she would never be able to forget the Left party’s atrocities against the West Bengali people.
“I will never forgive the CPI(M). I will also not forgive those who support the CPI(M)… because by doing so they actually support the BJP. I have seen that in the last panchayat elections,” she said. Banerjee stated that she has “no objection” to anyone running for office who is related to the late Gani Khan Chowdhury, a prominent member of the Congress from Malda.
TMC’s Determination to Contest
“But the TMC will also contest. They (Congress) will fight along with the CPI(M), to strengthen the BJP… only the TMC is capable of politically fighting the BJP in the state,” she said. Additionally, Mamata Banerjee declared that if the Central government does not pay the debt by February 1st, she will hold a dharna. In response to the claims made by Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury that stones were thrown at Rahul Gandhi’s car in West Bengal, she asserted that the incident might have happened in Bihar.
Denial of Stone-Pelting in Bengal
“I got a message that Rahul Gandhi‘s car was pelted with stones. I checked what exactly happened and found that the incident occurred in Katihar, not in Bengal. The car entered Bengal with the glass already broken…I condemn the attack. This is nothing but a drama,” Banerjee said.
The car was damaged in an accident, according to the Congress, and Chowdhury’s comment was false information. Mamata Banerjee’s statement was made a few days after Nitish Kumar left the INDIA bloc, putting the alliance of the Opposition in a type of existential crisis.
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