PM Modi said West Bengal was ‘yearning for freedom from TMC’s misrule’.
Modi in Bengal: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday accused the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal of making the people of the state suffer to oppose the BJP, while claiming that the Mamata Banerjee government has unleashed “maha jungle raj”, and is deeply steeped in corruption, nepotism and appeasement, which has prevented development in the state.
‘TMC holding people to ransom’
The Prime Minister addressed a massive public gathering at Taherpur in Nadia district over the phone from Kolkata, and urged the people to provide a chance to the BJP in the upcoming assembly polls to form a “double engine government” in the state.
“Let the TMC oppose me and BJP as much as it wants, but the ruling party cannot hold people to ransom, make them suffer and stop Bengal’s progress. We will end TMC’s ‘maha jungle raj’ in Bengal where corruption, nepotism and appeasement politics are ruling the roost,” Modi said at the Parivartan Sankalpa Sabha, the fourth such meeting in Bengal this year.
PM Modi also alleged that the ruling dispensation in West Bengal was opposing the ongoing SIR exercise to “save infiltrators from getting identified”
Bengal wants ‘freedom’
Further, the prime minister claimed that popular sentiment on Bengal’s grassroots was to “gain freedom from TMC’s misrule”, adding that “the lanes and alleys of the state are resonating with cries of the slogan ‘Banchte chai, BJP tai’ (Need BJP to live).”
Earlier, PM Modi was forced to return to the Kolkata airport and address the Taherpur gathering remotely after dense fog prevented his helicopter from landing at the makeshift helipad at the venue.
