Kolkata: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday launched an all-out assault on the Bharatiya Janata Party warning that central businesses would goal the BJP after the 2024 basic elections. She additionally claimed the BJP-led authorities on the Centre would final solely three extra months.
West Bengal chief minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee throughout a celebration assembly, in Kolkata.(PTI)
She accused the celebration of what she known as “saffronisation of the country” and claimed the Indian cricket crew was requested to put on saffron follow jerseys. The BJP described the comment as ‘soiled politics’.
“Central agencies targeting opposition leaders at present will go after the BJP following the 2024 elections,” she advised celebration employees.
Mamata Banerjee’s celebration Trinamool is a part of the INDIA bloc — an alliance of 28 events fashioned to cease the BJP juggernaut within the 2024 basic elections.
“This government at the Centre is there for three more months,” she added.
Mamata Banerjee on India’s WC loss
Mamata Banerjee stated India wouldn’t have misplaced their world cup last in opposition to Australia had the match been performed in Kolkata or Mumbai.
“Saffron is the colour of ‘tyagis’, but you are ‘bhogis’,” she stated. She claimed the Indian cricket crew refused to put on the jerseys throughout matches.
“They are trying to paint the entire country saffron. We are proud of our Indian players, and I believe that we would have won the World Cup if the finals had taken place in Kolkata or Wankhede (in Mumbai),” she added.
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BJP president JP Nadda (left) shares a phrase with Manjinder Singh Sirsa. (PTI file photograph)
BJP slams Mamata Banerjee’s WC comment
The BJP slammed the remarks. The celebration’s chief Manjinder Singh Sirsa accused Banerjee of doing soiled politics.
“Our players performed their best and won ten out of eleven matches and this is not an election, this is a game… Now dividing it in the name of parties, dividing it in the name of states, the mentality of Mamata Banerjee is that the people of Gujarat are bad because the match was played there….she is saying that we lost because of wearing saffron colour, saffron colour is also in our flag, now you will remove the colour from the flag of India also?” he stated.
Bengal BJP MLA Agnimitra Paul known as the remarks petty politics.
“It is very unfortunate. This kind of petty politics can be expected from leaders like Mamata Banerjee or Rahul Gandhi. She has insulted the efforts of our Indian team which has won the last 10 matches consecutively without a single defeat. What about their efforts? It is only because of the stadium… but she is forgetting that she was also a part of the same party, Congress. ..Now she is talking about the saffron colour, the stadium. The people of West Bengal are suffering because of you. Your family heads sports institutions in West Bengal, what qualifications do they have to lead a sports association? And what results have you got for West Bengal in the last 12 years? So, stop doing such petty politics,” she stated.
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Banerjee immediately stated the world cup was attended by sinners.
“The Indian team played so well that they won all the matches in the World Cup, except the one attended by the sinners,” she stated, with out naming anybody.
Banerjee additionally claimed the BJP was planning to expel Mahua Moitra from Parliament over the cash-for-query scandal. She stated Moitra would turn out to be extra standard.
“She will become more popular as a result. Whatever she used to say inside (Parliament), she will now say those things outside. Would anyone do something like this three months before the elections if he is not stupid?” Banerjee stated.
With inputs from PTI, ANI
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