Updated Dec 24, 2020 | 07:56 IST
People of Bengal didn’t have any relation with BJP and the saffron party strengthen its foothold in the state due to Mamata Banerjee, said Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury. Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
New Delhi: West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury blasted Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accusing her of opening the political doors of the state to BJP by forging an alliance with the saffron party during the 1999 Lok Sabha polls and joining Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led BJP government.
People of Bengal didn’t have any relation with BJP, said Adhir claiming that the Congress had cautioned her then.
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Chowdhury told ET in an interview about West Bengal politics, adding “in the last Lok Sabha polls, Mamata deployed Suvendu Adhikari for months in my constituency to try and defeat me through all means.
In the image: Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
New Delhi: As the Mamata Banerjee-BJP fight rages on in poll-bound West Bengal, state Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has said “CM Mamata Banerjee is being “paid back in the same coin”, after she had “unleashed state machinery” on the Opposition and “poached MLAs” in her attempt to destroy the Congress and the Left.
“Trinamool legislators and MPs are being poached by BJP in the same illegal manner as Mamata has been poaching MLAs of Congress and Left. If BJP has established national notoriety for poaching Opposition legislators, Trinamool has acquired regional notoriety for the same,” Chowdhury told ET in an interview about West Bengal politics, adding “in the last Lok Sabha polls, sh