Mamta Banerjee attacks the PM
The tussle between the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been taking meandering turns as the election campaign progresses in the state. Mamata Banerjee took a befitting attack on BJP over a CBI probe involving her nephew's Abhishek Banerjee wife. He reverted to PM Modi's sneering remarks at the Hooghly rally by calling him 'dangabaaz (rioter)' and demon. Attacking from the same spot where PM Modi campaigned two days ago for strengthening her stance in Bengal elections, the Chief Minister dared the PM to arrest 20 Trinamool Congress workers including her.
In reciprocation of demeaning terms like 'tolabaaz' and 'extortionist', Banerjee declared "PM Narendra Modi is the biggest dangebaaz." Solidifying and confiding to the voters in her rally at Hooghly near Kolkata for the approaching elections, she proudly claimed that a tougher and worse fate awaits for the PM than former US President Donald Trump who lost the elections to his Democratic rival Joe Biden. Influencing the public with her words, she took an explicit dig at the PM by accusing him of entailing unfavourable intentions for Bengal.
"Currently, the country is under the governance of doitya and danab (demons in Bengali). They will try to erode our foundations. They will pollute our soul and conquer Bengal. Do we want Bengal to stay Bengal or whatever BJP makes of it? Bengal will control Gujarat and there is no other way around to this," Ms Banerjee said, throwing some Bengali obscene comments like "Hodol Kutkut" and "Kimbhoot-Kimakar" (roughly translated as fat, ugly and strange). "This time I will be the goalkeeper in assembly polls and prevent them from scoring one," she added. The angst demonstrated by Banerjee came in response to CBI interrogation of TMC's MP and Abhishek Banerjee's wife Rujira, accused of taking bribes from the coal mafia. Her sister was also questioned in this regard.
"You can kill me, thrash me or target me. Can you disrespect the bahu of my house? Can you disrespect a woman by calling her a coal thief?," she raised the question to the centre. "Calling our mothers and daughters coal thiefs is unacceptable. You are hardly spotless. I know everything but won't utter as that's not my way," she added. The rally also witnessed the presence of celebrities like Sayoni Dutta and June Maliya and cricketer Manoj Tiwari who joined TMC and raised the slogan "Khela Hobey (Game On)" in support of TMC which was challenged by BJP.
Reacting to unfiltered attack of Mamata Banerjee, BJP leader Amit Malviya accused her of body-shaming. "She had probably sensed the spread of saffron colour over West Bengal which had forced her into this methodology and immaturity. She is body shaming our PM without even a second thought," he said.
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