Congress: Bengal needs to be rescued from Trinamul’s rule
Says Opp. grand alliance to win polls, both BJP & TMC trying to divide people
Kolkata, Feb. 28: — The Opposition “grand alliance” will win the upcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal, senior Congress leaders asserted on Sunday while addressing a mega rally in Kolkata, maintaining that the country needs to be saved from the BJP and the state rescued from the ruling Trinamul Congress.
Addressing lakhs of supporters at the Brigade parade grounds, state Congress president Adhir Chowdhury said the gathering proved that the Bengal elections will not be a two-cornered contest.
“The grand alliance of the Left-Congress and other secular forces will defeat both the TMC and the BJP,” Mr Chowdhury, the leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha, said.
He said that the BJP and the TMC want that other than the two, there should not exist any other political force in Bengal and that no other party should come between them.
“But in the future, there will not be any BJP or TMC. Only the grand alliance will remain,” he claimed. Those trying to propagate the idea that TMC and BJP are the only ones contesting the polls in West Bengal have been proved wrong by the huge gathering, he said. “Morning is the harbinger of the day, and this meeting proves that the TMC and BJP will be defeated in the coming elections,” Mr Chowdhury said.
He said that the goal of the alliance is to ensure the victory of secularism and democracy and to defeat communal and repressive politics in Bengal.
Alleging that both the BJP and the TMC are trying to divide the people, Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel said that the country has to be saved from one, and Bengal has to be rescued from the other.
“Both the BJP and TMC are trying to divide the people,” he said.
The grand alliance of the LeftCongress and other secular forces will defeat both the TMC and the BJP... In the future, there will not be any BJP or TMC. Only the grand alliance will remain.
— Adhir Chowdhury, Bengal Congress president