West Bengal Assembly elections | Mamata asking Muslims to vote for her, reflects minority votes slipping away: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 6 mentioned Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s attraction to Muslims to vote en bloc for TMC reflects fears that minority votes are slipping out of her hand.
The Prime Minister mentioned the same attraction to Hindus by his social gathering would have drawn the media’s and Election Commission’s wrath.
Asserting that Ms. Banerjee has issues with folks sporting a ‘Tilak’ and sporting saffron, Mr. Modi mentioned the TMC supremo’s attraction to the Muslims reflects that her “minority votes are slipping out of her hands.” Claiming {that a} BJP wave was blowing throughout West Bengal and his social gathering would type the following authorities, Mr. Modi mentioned Ms. Banerjee’s indignant reactions point out that she has misplaced the polls.
“Didi recently asked all Muslims to vote en bloc for her. It shows that the Muslim vote bank is slipping out of her hands. Had we said the same thing that all Hindus should unite, everybody would have criticised us. The EC would have sent us notices. We would have been censured,” Mr. Modi mentioned whereas addressing an election rally right here.
The BJP on April 5 approached the Election Commission of India (ECI) in search of motion in opposition to Ms. Banerjee, alleging she violated the Representation of the People’s Act by asking Muslims to come collectively and vote for her social gathering TMC within the state meeting polls.
Taking a dig at Ms. Banerjee’s remark, rhetorically questioning whether or not BJP leaders predicting the social gathering’s victory had been Gods or superhumans, Mr. Modi mentioned nobody wants to be superhuman to predict BJP’s victory because the wave in favour of the saffron camp spoke for itself.
“There is no need to trouble God to find out who is losing and who is winning. Janata Janardhana [public], in the form of God, has given their response, it is known which way the wind is blowing,” he mentioned.
“Didi’s exit is imminent. That is clear after the first two phases of polling,” he added.
Mr. Modi additionally claimed Ms. Banerjee had harm Bengalis’ shallowness by alleging folks come to his rallies for cash.
Accusing the TMC dispensation of indulging in rampant corruption, Mr. Modi mentioned, “Didi has started a new tax in Bengal – ‘Bhaipo Service Tax’!”.
“For ten years, women, Dalits, backward classes, farmers and tea workers were subjected to injustices, but you chose to be a mute spectator,” he alleged, including, that has led to a motion for change.
“Sensing defeat, Didi has turned jittery and was criticising everybody and everything, from EC to EVMs,” the Prime Minister mentioned.
Referring to some TMC leaders’ declare that Ms. Banerjee would possibly contest elections from his Lok Sabha seat Varanasi in 2024, Mr. Modi mocked the TMC boss, saying this proves that Ms. Banerjee has accepted her defeat and is wanting for one other seat.
“Didi is now looking for a place for herself outside Bengal,” Mr. Modi mentioned, who had received the Lok Sabha election twice from Varanasi in 2014 and 2019.
Mr. Modi asserted that Ms. Banerjee’s claims that social schemes began by her can be stopped if BJP comes to energy had been “false and baseless”, and mentioned none of them can be discontinued.
“If anything is stopped, then that will be `Tolabaji’ [extortion] and cut-money [bribes],” he mentioned.