Kolkatta | West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday announced that his party will contest the upcoming Lok Sabha polls on several seats in the neighbouring states of Odisha, Jharkhand and Assam.
Addressing a public rally in Purulia’s Balarampur, Banerjee announced that the party will contest in the bordering districts of West Bengal like Purulia, West Midnapore, Jhargram and Birbhum. She said, “Those who live in Bengal-Jharkhand border districts like Purulia, West Midnapore, Jhargram and Birbhum should be prepared. We will fight in a number of Lok Sabha seats in Jharkhand. We will also fight in a number of seats in Odisha, with whom we share our border.”
Attacking the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the West Bengal CM said,”BJP is trying to drive away Bengalis from Assam. Assam is our neighbouring state too. We (Trinamool) will fight in some Lok Sabha seats in Assam as well. We will contest from these states besides Bengal as we want our relationship with the neighbours to be good.” Speaking about BJP’s performance in the assembly election in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, Banerjee claimed that BJP will lose in the Assembly elections in both Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan and will eventually be dethroned from the Centre in 2019. She said,” Forget about coming to power in Bengal. In the coming days they will be dethroned from Delhi. If elections are held now in Jharkhand, BJP will not get a single seat. They will lose in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala and in Bengal, they will get a big zero this time.”
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