Bengal’s next CM won’t be an ‘outsider’: Amit Shah hits out at CM Mamata

Sending out a warning to West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, Shah said the BJP will win more than 200 seats in next year’s state Assembly elections

Shivani Arora
Published on: 20 Dec 2020 1:33 PM GMT
Bengal’s next CM won’t be an ‘outsider’: Amit Shah hits out at CM Mamata
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Bengal’s next CM won’t be an ‘outsider’: Amit Shah hits out at CM Mamata

Launching a blistering attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday said the way TMC workers attacked BJP national president JP Nadda during his Bengal tour proves the law and order situation of the state.

“The BJP condemns it and I condemn it too personally. BJP believes that in a democracy everyone should have the right to voice their views. And it is the responsibility of the ruling party to ensure that every political party can have their voice. The attack on BJP chief is not only an attack on him. It is an attack on democracy in West Bengal and Trinamool Congress is completely responsible for this,” Shah said.

Bengal’s next CM won’t be an ‘outsider’

Revealing that BJP’s CM candidate in West Bengal for Assembly election 2021 will be someone from Bengal, not ‘outsider’ like what Mamata Banerjee generally terms BJP’s central leaders when they visit the state, Amit Shah said, “Does she want a country where people from one state will not visit another? Did she call Indira Gandhi, Pranab Mukherjee, Narasimha Rao outsiders when they used to come to West Bengal? But don’t worry, no one from Delhi will come to defeat you. Someone from Bengal will challenge you and be the next CM of the state.”

With several former Trinamool leaders like Mukul Roy, Suvendu Adhikari in its fold now, BJP’s CM face in Bengal will be worth waiting for as Amit Shah didn’t divulge any more details. In fact, he dismissed any link between his comment of ‘bhumiputra will challenge Mamata’ with Suvendu Adhikari.

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Didi will be left alone:

Sending out a warning to West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, Shah said the BJP will win more than 200 seats in next year’s state Assembly elections. Pointing out desertions from TMC, Shah took potshots at the party chief. Saying that CM Mamata Banerjee will be left alone in the party by the time elections arrive.

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Ending weeks of speculations, West Bengal political heavyweight Suvendu Adhikari along with nine MLAs of different parties and a TMC MP joined the BJP at Shah’s rally in Midnapore.

Birthplace of Swami Vivekananda

The Home Minister visited the birthplace of Swami Vivekananda in north Kolkata on Saturday morning. And said that the ideals of the 19th-century icon are more relevant in the present-day world.

He also visited the Siddheshwari Kali Mandir in Habibpur and paid floral tributes to the revolutionary Khudiram Bose. He is also scheduled to have lunch with a farmer’s family in Balichuri village along with BJP leaders. After the public meeting, he will return to Kolkata and hold meetings with BJP state leaders.

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Shivani Arora

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