We have decided to unite all farmers in the country by holding mahapanchayats in every state.
KOLKATA: Bharatiya Janata Party president J P Nadda on Tuesday asserted that the rich culture of West Bengal is under threat in chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s rule, and said she should atone for the “misrule and misgovernance” of her regime.
Nadda, who flagged off the second and third phases of the Parivartan Yatra from Tarapith in Birbhum district and Lalgarh in Jhargram district, slammed the Trinamool Congress for dividing communities by branding people as “insiders and outsiders”. “The culture once nurtured by icons such as Rabindranath Tagore, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay and Shyama Prasad Mookerjee can be revived only after you (Banerjee) are ousted,” Nadda said at a rally at Lalgarh. BJP has launched three rath yatras since February 6.
The roadshows will cover the 294 assembly constituencies in the state, of which the BJP targets to win at least 200 in the polls due in April-may.
“The Trinamool Congress is pitting people against one another by branding them as insiders and outsiders,” he said.
While the TMC did not react to Nadda’s comment, Banerjee on Tuesday likened herself to a Royal Bengal Tiger, saying that she is not a weak person who can be intimidated by the BJP.
Addressing a rally in Murshidabad, the CM said, “There is no reason to think I am weak, I am not a person to be afraid of anything. I am a strong person and will keep my head high as long as I live and till then I will live like a Royal Bengal Tiger.”
Raking up the outsider issue, the TMC supremo said that the BJP is a party of Gujarat and Delhi, which is bringing in NRC and National Population Register (NPR). “People from Gujarat will not rule Bengal, the Trinamool Congress will rule Bengal,” Banerjee said at the rally.