Around 50 former Trinamool, Congress and Left Front leaders – including nine MLAs and an MP Sunil Mondal, joined the BJP in Mr Shah’s presence.
Welcoming high-profile Trinamool Congress rebel Suvendu Adhikari and several others to the BJP on Saturday at a mega rally in West Bengal’s Paschim Medinipur, Union Home Minister Amit Shah came down heavily on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
“Why are so many people leaving Trinamool Congress? Because of the misrule, corruption and nepotism of Mamata Banerjee. Didi, this is just the beginning. By the time elections come, you will be left all alone,” Amit Shah said.
Around 50 former Trinamool, Congress and Left Front leaders – including nine MLAs and an MP Sunil Mondal, joined the BJP in Mr Shah’s presence.
Referred to growing discontent among the people and the party about the rise of Ms Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee, both Mr Shah and Mr Adhikari attacked Mamata Banerjee for nepotism. Mr Adhikari even gave the slogan, “Bhaipo Hatao (Remove The Nephew)”.
“Trinamool Congress humiliated me. Those who humiliated me are now calling me a backstabber. Mamata Banerjee is nobody’s mother. There is only one mother and that is ‘Bharat Mata’. TMC will lose the 2021 West Bengal polls,” Mr Adhikari said.
“The economic condition of West Bengal is in a very bad state. If the state has to be salvaged, its reins need to be handed over to Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” he further added.
The home minister earlier cited the examples of freedom fighters like Khudiram Bose and Ramprasad Bismil to remind opposition parties in West Bengal that indulging in regionalism was “shallow politics” and ought to be shunned, a possible response to Trinamool’s charge of painting the BJP as “outsiders”.
Accompanied by Bengal BJP leader like Dilip Ghosh and the party’s West Bengal in-charge, Kailash Vijayvargiya, Mr Shah then went on to have lunch at a farmer’s house in Belijuri village in West Midnapore district.
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