HOWRAH, May 12 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday lambasted West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress, alleging the Mamata Banerjee-led party has made “corruption a full-time industry in the state”.
Wooing the people in a series of election rallies in the eastern state, Modi said their vote will not only help form a government at the Centre, but also shape the future of West Bengal.
Modi also took a swipe at the Congress and its 53-year-old leader Rahul Gandhi, commenting that the number of seats of the grand old party would fall short of the present age of its leader in the ongoing LS polls.
While not mentioning Gandhi by name, Modi said: “This time the Congress would get fewer seats than the age of its Shehzada (Rahul Gandhi).”
In rally after rally during the polls campaign, Modi has repeatedly claimed the Congress would perform poorly, and last week even went on to say the grand old party’s tally in the ongoing elections would be at an “all-time low”.
The Prime Minister, who made a scathing attack on the Trinamool, said, ” TMC’s full-time business Is scams. ”
“Be it the Left, Congress or any other party of the INDI Alliance, corruption is their common character. Most of the INDI Alliance parties secretly do scams, but TMC runs an open industry of scams.”
Modi described the TMC as the “combination of Congress’ corruption, nepotism, appeasement and Left’s tyranny and anarchy? if we combine all of these, then we get TMC alone. ”
Modi said: ” The TMC is looting Bengal, it’s a great sin. Teachers’ recruitment scam, Ponzi scam, coal scam, chit fund scam, ration scam? what a long list it is, ” he said adding that the ruling party even did not spare the farmers as the party looted farmers in the mandis. ”
In blitz poll campaign in West Bengal during the day, Modi Addressed four rallies at Barrackpore, Chinsurah, Arambagh and Purshura covering six constituencies n support of BJP candidates.
Modi alleged that under the Trinamool government, Hindus in Bengal were treated as 2nd class citizens where the community could not take part in the procession on Ram Navami day and pointed out that a TMC MLA threatened to drown all Hindus in the Bhagirathi river in two hours.
“What kind of of state we are living where the Indians are dubbed as Bohiragoto ( Outsiders) and infiltrators from across the borders get shelter,” Modi said and warned this cannot be accepted anymore as his government would take all the perpetrators of Sandeshkhali in time.
Modi in Arambagh, said, “The TMC government is irritated by the development of the SC community, hence it is not allowing you to progress, whereas the BJP government gives priority to the interests of the SC community.”
Modi alleged that TMC government to appease their vote bank are willing to resort to any means within their control.
TMC is staunchly anti-women and anti-SC/ST, he said.
Lambasting the TMC government for deteriorating the state’s condition, PM Modi exclaimed, “There was a time when Bengal contributed significantly to strengthening the nation’s economy. Today, TMC has turned it into a stronghold of corruption.
“There was a time when Bengal witnessed groundbreaking scientific discoveries. Now, under TMC’s rule, bomb-making factories are springing up across the state. There was a time when Bengal revolted against infiltrators. But today, under the protection of TMC, infiltrators are thriving here,” he said.
Hitting out at the TMC, Congress and the Left parties, PM Modi stated, “Today, following one’s faith has become a crime in Bengal. In Bengal, the TMC government doesn’t allow the mention of Lord Ram… In Bengal, the TMC government doesn’t permit the celebration of Ram Navami. Even the supporters of the Congress-Left have opened a front against the Ram temple. Can the country be entrusted to the hands of the TMC-Congress and Left?”
He cited examples like Karnataka, claiming that Congress has already allocated OBC reservations to Muslims.
Talking about the ‘Vote Bank’ politics, the PM iterated that CAA has provided citizenship to the ‘Matua’ community of West Bengal. He added that CAA is the antidote to ‘Vote-bank politics’ and CAA will provide citizenship to all those who have suffered the aftermath of partition.
Asserting that no corrupt individual will go unpunished, he declared, “I will ensure that those responsible for the corruption in Bengal are held accountable. Those accumulating vast sums of money will not evade the law. I am pursuing legal avenues to ensure that the victims receive restitution for these ill-gotten gains.”
Modi also slammed the opposition for the atrocities happening in Sandeshkhali of North 24 Pargaans district.
He said, “The perpetrators of Sandeshkhali crimes, first shielded by TMC’s police, now face a new challenge. TMC’s goons are intimidating and threatening the women of Sandeshkhali solely because the perpetrator’s name is Shahjahan Sheikh. Bombs and guns are being unleashed from his home. Yet, TMC is bent on whitewashing this criminal by securing his clean chit for the sake of vote-bank politics.” (UNI)
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