Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have been going hammer and tongs at each other in West Bengal for years. The pitch is rising daily in connection with the Lok Sabha elections.
On Sunday, chief minister Mamata Banerjee claimed that the BJP-run Central government is conspiring against her and nephew Abhishek Banerjee and said that they “don’t feel safe.”
Addressing an election rally in Balurghat, Mamata asked TMC leaders, workers and the people of West Bengal to be on guard.
“The BJP is targeting me and Abhishek. We don’t feel safe, but we are also not afraid of the saffron party’s conspiracy. We urge everyone to be on guard against a conspiracy against TMC leaders and the people of West Bengal,” the TMC supremo said.
Mamata’s big claim came a day after BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari, the leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly, said there would be a “big explosion on Monday which will shake the TMC and its top brass.”
Mamata slammed Adhikari, who used to be an influential TMC leader before joining BJP in December 2020, without taking his name.
“There is a traitor who joined the BJP to protect his family and ill-gotten wealth. Let me tell him, his threat to trigger a chocolate bomb explosion is treated with contempt by us. We will counter him by bursting firecrackers. For us, firecrackers are unravelling discrepancies in the PM Care Fund and ‘jumla’ of crediting Rs 15 lakh in every citizen’s bank account. He only peddles falsehood,” she said.
Mamata also slammed the BJP for the change in colour of Doordarshan logo.
“Why did the DD logo suddenly turn saffron? Why were official residences of Army personnel painted in saffron? Why was the uniform of police in Kashi (Varanasi) changed to saffron?” she questioned.
