Mamata blames self for not recognising true face of Adhikari family
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West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Sunday blamed herself for not recognising the “true face” of the influential Adhikari family of Purba Medinipur district.
Venting her ire towards Suvendu Adhikari, her protege-turned-rival who’s pitted towards the TMC chief from Nandigram constituency for the approaching meeting polls, Ms. Banerjee stated at an election rally right here, she had even heard rumours the Adhikari family had constructed an empire value ₹ 5,000 crore.
The chief minister stated, she is going to get it investigated as soon as she is voted to energy.
Most members of the Adhikari family, which holds appreciable political clout within the district, have both joined the BJP or expressed a want to affix the saffron occasion.
Veteran TMC MP Sisir Adhikari – father of Suvendu Adhikari – joined the BJP at Egra on Sunday within the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah and different senior leaders of the occasion.
She in contrast the Adhikari family with “Mir Jafar” (traitor) and stated the individuals of the area will not tolerate it and provides befitting replies with ballots.
Mir Jafar, the army common of Bengal’s final indepedent nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah, is taken into account a traitor for deceiving the besieged Nawab in the course of the Battle of Plassey in 1757 which paved the best way for British rule in India.
“I say I am a ‘big donkey’ (Ami ekta boro gadha) for having failed to recognise them. I dont know (about it), but people say their `empire’ is worth ₹ 5,000 crore and they will use money to buy votes. But don’t vote for them,” Ms. Banerjee advised the rally.
The TMC chief additionally described the BJP as a celebration of “rogues and goons”.
She additionally blamed the Adhikari family for ruling the district as “zamindars” (landlords) by taking full management of the world, claiming that even she was not allowed to carry public conferences there.
Highlighting that each one works like well being, roads and different schemes have been undertaken by the state authorities and not by the Adhikari family, Banerjee urged the gang to maintain the BJP out of West Bengal to take care of peace and additional the tempo of growth.
Earlier too, she had described Suvendu Adhikari as a traitor, stating that she had blindly supported him when he was within the Trinamool Congress.
Ms. Banerjee additionally tried to play the nationalistic card by elevating slogans of “Bande Mataram” and “Jai Hind”.
Ms. Banerjee left her Bhowanipore constituency in Kolkata to contest towards her former lieutenant and BJP candidate Suvendu Adhikari in Nandigram seat, the place an anti-land acquisition motion catapulted the TMC to energy within the state in 2011.
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