Bengal polls: If Didi contests from another seat, it will be a twin mistake, says Modi
The PM said Mamata s twin defeat will lead to the TMC’s disappearance from Bengal’s political landscape.
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KOLKATA: Nandigram has already voted, but the BJP continued to use TMC chief Mamata Banerjee s decision to contest against Suvendu Adhikari as a political tool to gain electoral dividend in the next six phases of the election.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while addressing a rally in South 24-Parganas on Saturday, said Mamata should accept her defeat in Nandigram and she should not contest from another seat as her twin defeat will lead to the TMC’s disappearance from Bengal’s political landscape. Union Home Minister Amit Shah and other heavyweights of the saffron camp echoed the same.
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PM Modi at a poll rally.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of the phase 3 polling in West Bengal, scheduled to take place on April 6, on Saturday addressed a rally in Bengal s Hooghly and targeted Mamata Banerjee saying where is the report card of TMC s government 10-year rule. A major reason for Didi s bewilderment is her report card of 10 years. Old industries have been shut down. Possibilities of new industries, new investment, new business & employment have also been closed down, he said.
Continuing his attack at Mamata Banerjee, PM Modi said, Didi says people take money to attend BJP rallies. Didi, Bengalis are self-respecting people. Didi, you have insulted the people of Bengal with this statement.
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When votes swing in Bengal, they swing big. The CPI(M)’s tally oscillated from 14 in the rigging-marred 1972 assembly elections to 178 in 1977, and from 176 in 2006 to 40 in 2011. The TMC, which bagged 30 assembly seats in 2006, won 184 in 2011; it bagged one Lok Sabha seat in 2004, 19 in 2009 and 34 in 2014. The BJP, whose tally rose from two in the 2014 Lok Sabha election to 18 in 2019, saw its voteshare at Kaliaganj dip from 52.15 per cent in the Lok Sabha election in May 2019 to 43.54 per cent in the assembly bypolls in November. Similarly, in Kharagpur, its voteshare fell from 57.23 per cent to 34.01 per cent. TMC won the two seats for the first time in Kaliaganj, its voteshare went up from 27.25 per cent in the Lok Sabha polls to 44.65 per cent in the assembly bypolls, and from 29.58 per cent to 47.65 per cent in Kharagpur. This situation has left BJP and TMC leaders clueless about the p
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PM Modi welcomes Mamata Banerjee in Varanasi says she won t be labelled as an outsider.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his second poll rally on Saturday in Bengal s South 24 Parganas district took a jibe at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee saying she will never be labelled as an outsider in Uttar Pradesh s Banaras after TMC had said that the Prime Minister will be challenged in Varanasi in 2014.
Contesting her outsider remark against the BJP, the Prime Minister said, I have heard that she expressed her desire to contest from Banaras. She is always welcome because the people of Banaras and Kashi have a huge heart, just like the people of Bengal.
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Abhishek Banerjee was receiving Rs 35 crore every month via cut money syndicate, claims alleged audio tapes.
In a major development that could call trouble for the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in the middle of Bengal assembly elections, 3 audio tapes have surfaced in relation to the coal smuggling case and money was being received (up to Rs 35 crore) by Mamata Banerjee s nephew Abhishek Banerjee every month as part of cut money via a syndicate racket.
The alleged audio tapes claim a conversation between Ganesh Bagadiya, who is said to be a close aide of one Anup Majhi (aka Lala) â an accused in the coal smuggling case â and a government official.