No difference between Modi, Didi; Bengal must be rescued from TMC: Congress at joint rally
The opposition ‘grand alliance’ will win the Aassembly elections in West Bengal, senior Congress leaders asserted on Sunday while addressing a mega rally in Kolkata, maintaining that the country needs to be saved from the BJP and the state rescued from the ruling Trinamool Congress.
Addressing lakhs of supporters at the Brigade parade grounds, state Congress president Adhir Chowdhury said the gathering proved that the Bengal elections will not be a two- cornered contest. “The grand alliance of the Left-Congress and other secular forces will defeat both the TMC and the BJP,” Chowdhury, the leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha, said.
He said that the BJP and the TMC want that other than the two, there should not exist any other political force in Bengal. “But in the future, there will not be any BJP or TMC. Only the grand alliance will remain,” he claimed. Alleging BJP and TMC are trying to divide the people, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel said that the country has to be saved from one, and Bengal has to be rescued from the other.
CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury said that the Trinamool Congress has to be defeated first to stop the communal bandwagon of the RSS-BJP, and claimed that the TMC might rejoin the NDA to form the government in West Bengal in case of a hung Assembly.
Terming the ongoing political tussle between the TMC and the BJP as a “mock fight”, Yechury alleged that the saffron party is using money from the PM CARES fund, set up to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, to “buy” leaders during the time of elections.
The Indian Secular Front (ISF), led by Abbas Siddiqui, vowed to defeat the TMC and BJP in the upcoming assembly elections, asserting that people of the state would teach Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee “a lesson for her arrogance”.
Proclaiming support for the Left Front and its allies in the state, Siddiqui said Bengal will get the better of the BJP and “its B-team Mamata Banerjee” in the polls. Mamata and her TMC has destroyed democracy and unleashed anarchy.