Mamata confident of Bengal win, eyes Delhi
CHUNCHURA: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday asserted that she would win the ongoing state polls despite injury and eventually aim for power in Delhi.
Training her guns at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, Banerjee who is seeking a third term in office said that West Bengal will be ruled by its own people.
Terming herself as a Royal Bengal Tiger, the TMC chief said, West Bengal will not be ruled by anyone from Gujarat. “I will win Bengal with one leg and Delhi with two legs.”
The TMC leader said that she suffered injuries, which were allegedly inflicted on her by BJP supporters in Nandigram on March 10, to prevent her from campaigning for the West Bengal assembly polls, a make or break event for both the TMC and the BJP.
However, after going through the report of poll observers, the EC had concluded that the Nandigram incident was an accident and not a planned attack.
Criticising the Central government over Saturday’s naxal attack in Chhattisgarh in which 22 security personnel were killed, the West Bengal chief minister accused the BJP of not governing the country properly and concentrating on West Bengal elections.
Lambasting the BJP for bringing leaders from all over the country, who “are camping in the state to win the elections”, Banerjee said at a public meeting here that the saffron party is fielding its sitting MPs for the assembly polls since it has a dearth of suitable candidates.
The BJP has nominated Locket Chatterjee, its Lok Sabha MP from Hooghly, for the Chunchura assembly seat.
Banerjee, who has been accused by the prime minister of showering abuses on him on different occasions in the run up to the elections, said that she does not care about Modi calling her “Didi..o... didi” in a tone which some TMC women leaders have termed as sarcastic.
“He does this everyday, I don’t care,” Banerjee said.
Questioning the logic behind holding eight phased polls, she said, “It could have been done in 3 or 4 phases...”