Kanthi: Vande Mataram is the one mantra born in Bengal that has brought the nation together, and the CM Mamata Banerjee is calling people ...
Kanthi: Vande Mataram is the one mantra born in Bengal that has brought the nation together, and the CM Mamata Banerjee is calling people “bohiragoto”, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi exclaimed on Wednesday. He declared that if voted to power, a son of the soil will be made the BJP chief minister of the state.
Addressing an
election rally in Kanthi in the district of Purba Medinipur, Modi said that
Bengal was the land of icons like Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Rabindranath
Tagore and Subhas Chandra Bose and on this land, no Indian was an
outsider.
“Bengal brought
together the people of India through Vande Mataram, and on that land,
Mamata-didi is talking about 'bohiragoto' (outsider). No Indian is an outsider
here, they are all children of Bharat Mata,” he said.
“We are being
called 'tourists', and people are making fun of us and we are being insulted.
Didi, people of Rabindranath's Bengal don't consider anybody an outsider,” he
added.
When the BJP forms
the government in Bengal, the chief minister will be a son of the soil, he said
at the rally amidst loud cheers from his supporters.
“You are maligning Nandigram and its people before the entire country. This is the same Nandigram that gave you so much. The people of Nandigram will not forgive you and will give you a befitting reply,” he said, referring to the March 10 incident in which the chief minister was injured.
Modi's comments
came in the wake of an “insider vs outsider” debate with Banerjee vociferously
stating repeatedly that she won't allow Bengal to be ruled by “outsiders” from
Delhi or Gujarat, in a reference to the BJP and the prime minister.
The Trinamool
Congress has launched the 'Bangla Nijer Meyeke Chaye' (Bengal wants its own
daughter) campaign, with party leaders calling BJP leaders visiting the state
as “election tourists”.
The prime minister
said that Banerjee has belittled the people of Nandigram with false
accusations, and people would give her a befitting reply.
“You are maligning
Nandigram and its people before the entire country. This is the same Nandigram that
gave you so much. The people of Nandigram will not forgive you and will
give you a befitting reply,” he said, referring to the March 10 incident in
which the chief minister was injured.
Modi said that BJP
would make all the schemes in the state scam-free and bring about transparency,
hitting out at the TMC over 'cut money', 'tolabaji' (extortion) and
ground-level corruption.
“The Amphan relief
was looted through the 'bhaipo (nephew) window',” he alleged.
Banerjee may be
talking about 'Duare Sarkar' (government at doorstep), but she will be shown
the door on May 2, he said.
The popular 'Duare
Sarkar' programme was launched by Banerjee's government months ahead of the
election, delivering services through special camps in neighbourhoods.
The chief minister
has also promised that she will ensure doorstep delivery of ration, if voted to
power for the third time.
The prime minister
was campaigning in Kanthi, the hometown of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari.
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