Yechury: Mamata may join hands with NDA if Bengal results ‘hung’
Left, Cong, ISF show strength at Kolkata's Brigade rally
Kolkata, Feb. 28: CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Sunday said that the Trinamool Congress has to be defeated first to stop the communal bandwagon of the RSSBJP, 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 farmers at the Singhu border in Delhi are fighting against the (Narendra) Modi government's anti-people policies. If farmers who provide us with food can put up such a gallant fight, we too can do it here," he said.
"This grand alliance of the Left and the secular forces will fight to defeat the corrupt TMC government and the BJP in the state, will fight for a better Bengal," Yechury said while addressing a joint rally at the Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata ahead of the assembly election in West Bengal.
The CPI(M) leader alleged that the Mamata Banerjee administration is
doing the same to youths what the Narendra Modi government is doing against the farmers.
“Many people ask me what we would do in case of a hung assembly. I tell them to direct their question to the TMC as they are in the best position to answer it.
“The TMC has been part of NDA (for several years) since 1998. It was part of the NDA government (at the Centre). In case of a hung assembly, I am confident that the TMC would join hands with the BJP to form the state's government,” he said.
“All the secular forces have to fight together to defeat the Trinamul Congress and the BJP in Bengal. Once we stop this communal juggernaut in Bengal, we will stop it in the country also,” Mr Yechury said.