Mamata calls BJP dacoits’ party, asks Modi to look at the mirror

JALPAIGURI/ SILIGURI: Demanding a white paper on the investigations conducted by central teams in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said that PM Narendra Modi who accuses her TMC of corruption should look in the mirror first.

Hitting out at the BJP, Banerjee claimed that its leaders were ignorant about Bengalis, their culture, religious rituals and food habits, because of which they criticised eating fish. “BJP had sent 300 central teams to Bengal to investigate the allegations of corruption but they didn’t find anything.

Now, PM Modi needs to answer the people of Bengal, what happened to the MGNREGS funds? Poor people worked under the scheme but were not paid,” she said, demanding a white paper on the investigations. “The PM says TMC is a corrupt party. He should look in the mirror first. His party is filled with dacoits,” she added.

Banerjee was addressing an election rally in Mainaguri in support of TMC’s Jalpaiguri candidate Nirmal Chandra Ray who is up against BJP MP Jayanta Roy and Congress-backed CPI(M) nominee Debraj Barman.

Raising the issue of demonetisation, Banerjee sought to know who benefitted from it.

She called the BJP an “anti-Bengali party”, and alleged that it was “planning to drive out” tribals, Dalits and OBCs in the garb of NRC. “We won’t allow NRC in Bengal,” she asserted. Criticising the CPM and Congress, she said, “Only the TMC is fighting the BJP in Bengal, while the other two parties are working with it. We are with the INDIA bloc at the national level, but in Bengal, TMC must win to save the country.”

Banerjee claimed that if the BJP returned to power no more elections would be held in the country. “There will be the rule of one man and one party, “she claimed.