Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Mamata Banerjee Alleges Congress, CPI Helping BJP in West Bengal

Kaliachak, April 28: Asserting that the Trinamool Congress is contesting the Lok Sabha elections alone in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday alleged that the Congress and CPI(M) are helping the BJP in the state. Addressing an election rally here at Malda Dakshin Lok Sabha seat, Banerjee claimed that the TMC will put up a spirited fight against the Narendra Modi-led dispensation at the Centre and will play a major role in installing an INDIA bloc government after the Lok Sabha polls.

"We don't have any alliance in Bengal with Congress. Here the CPI(M) is having an alliance with Congress. Both are hand-in gloves with BJP and if you (voters) cast vote for Congress or CPI(M) that tantamounts to cutting the anti-BJP vote share and helping Narendra Modi. Congress and CPI(M) are the two eyes of BJP in this state," she said. Banerjee claimed that the TMC had wanted to discuss seat sharing with Congress with the condition that they should not have any deal with CPI(M) in Bengal but they didn't listen. Sandeshkhali Case: Mamata Banerjee Says 'No Evidence of Arms Seizure in Sandeshkhali, Recovered Items Might Be Brought by CBI'

"The Congress and CPI(M) leaders in West Bengal have been speaking in the same voice of BJP and plotting against pro-people policies of the TMC-run government in the state," she said. Asserting that the INDIA alliance is alive outside Bengal, Banerjee said "I gave INDIA alliance its name, but the alliance does not exist in Bengal, it will be functioning outside this state because of the pro-BJP stance of its state leaders." She claimed that the TMC will play an important role in the INDIA alliance nationally after defeating BJP in Bengal on its own in the Lok Sabha polls.

In a jibe at Modi over his comments about the Calcutta High Court order regarding SSC recruitment in 2016, she said "26,000 youths have lost their jobs all of a sudden. Does that make you happy?" She alleged that CPI(M) in collusion with BJP is plotting to stall teaching job recruitment initiatives of the state government. "... We will do whatever is required to help these unfortunate youths who had given their labour, their intellect in all these years and now suddenly being told their job has been taken away. To ensure justice is done," she said.

"Even if there can be aberrations when we try to find alternative ways to fix it, in the interest of the deserving educated youth, the CPI(M) and BJP rushes in to jeopardise that," she said. At the second rally in Habibpur in Malda Uttar seat, the TMC chairperson alleged BJP hands over cash to voters "to buy votes" on the eve of polling date. "Bring the misconduct to the notice of election officials and our party activists in the area. BJP does not believe in doing work for people, it believes in bribing people, Should one vote such a corrupt party with no principles," she asked. Will Repeal NRC, CAA if INDIA Bloc Voted to Power, Says Mamata Banerjee at Lok Sabha Election Rally

Accusing the PM of peddling falsehood, she said, "he has attempted to scare women about their wealth, gold ornaments, mangalsutra being taken away. Can this ever happen?" "Modi ji only tries to divide people by peddling lies. By spreading hatred, by alienating minorities and dalits with his speech and agenda. We will never allow that to happen. For us every religion is important, every community is important, we believe in the inclusiveness of India," she said.