Mamata says BJP more dangerous than Maoists
‘Desertions from TMC good riddance’
urulia (WB), Jan. 19: Terming BJP as more dangerous than the Maoists, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, on Tuesday, accused the saffron party of making false promises to the people before elections and vanishing after winning.
Claiming that the Trinamool Congress is not perturbed over desertions by some leaders, she said politics is a solemn ideology and philosophy and one cannot change these everyday like clothes.
“BJP is more dangerous than the Maoists,” Ms Banerjee said while addressing a rally here in Purulia district, which was once a hotbed of the banned ultra-Left organisation.
Ms Banerjee said the Maoists have come back to the mainstream in the state and that her government has given them jobs as special home guards.
TMC has inducted Chhatradhar Mahato, a former leader of Maoistbacked People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA), who had hogged the limelight during the Lalgarh movement in the tribal-dominated Junglemahal area at the fag end of the erstwhile CPI(M)-led Left Front rule in the state.
Mr Mahato was set free
in February last year by the state government following reduction in his life term to 10 years by the Calcutta high court for his good conduct.
Facing the flight of TMC MPs and MLAs to BJP ahead of the state polls, she said, “Those who want to join BJP can go, but we will not bow our heads to it.”
Terming the desertions as “good riddance,” she said these leaders would have disturbed the party if they had remained in the TMC.
She claimed the BJP leaders misled the tribals of the Jangalmahal area, within which Purulia is situated, with false promises
and did not come again for their welfare after winning the Lok Sabha polls.
BJP candidates had won all the seats in the Jangalmahal area including Purulia in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
Dismissing projections in pre-poll surveys, she claimed that “lies” are being dished out on the behest of BJP.
Accusing BJP, Congress, and CPI(M) of being brothers in arms, she alleged the Left party has handed over its votes to the saffron party.
Left Front and Congress have decided to fight the Bengal polls together.