BJP Will Lose Power Nationally if it Targets Bengal: Mamata Banerjee
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Saturday claimed that the BJP will lose power in the country in its attempt to destroy West Bengal.
Addressing a poll rally in Raniganj, he announced that after winning the West Bengal assembly elections for the fourth consecutive time, he would bring together all political parties to “capture” Delhi.
“If BJP comes to power in the state, they will use bulldozer and throw everyone out,” Banerjee said.
“BJP will lose power across the country if it tries to destroy Bengal,” the Prime Minister said at a rally in the mining town of Paschim Bardhaman district.
Accusing the Election Commission of working to delete voters’ names in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter lists at the behest of the saffron party, Banerjee said, “There should be a Lakshman Rekha, but the BJP is crossing all limits.”
“SIR will be your death knell,” he warned the BJP. Referring to the clashes during the Ram Navami procession in Murshidabad’s Raghunathganj, the official claimed that the administration did not take any action.
“I am the elected prime minister, but they took away all powers,” he said, promising to hold everyone responsible for the violence accountable after the TMC returns to power.
On Friday, following clashes during the Ram Navami procession, there was tension in parts of Murshidabad district in poll-bound West Bengal after stone-pelting, vandalism and arson were reported from multiple places. Security has been tightened in the affected Jangipur and Raghunathganj districts, police said.
