'Didi will be left alone': Amit Shah warns CM Mamata amid TMC desertions

Sending out a warning to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Union Home Minister Amit Shah Saturday 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 Banerjee will be left alone in the party by the time elections arrive.

Amit Shah warns CM Mamata:

Addressing the public at Paschim Medinipur, Shah said that the BJP will win more than 200 seats following the Vidhan Sabha elections. And will form the government.

Lashing out at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Shah said that while she had accused the BJP of inducing members to defect. Senior members were leaving the TMC to join the BJP. He warned that Mamata would be left alone in TMC by the time the elections began.

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.

Shah is on a two-day visit to the state to take stock of the party’s affairs ahead of the Assembly elections.

Home Minister visited the 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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On Sunday, he is scheduled to visit Visva Bharati in Shantiniketan followed by a roadshow in Bolpur. The BJP’s state chief Dilip Ghosh has said that Shah and party president J P Nadda would visit West Bengal every month. Till the Assembly elections, likely in April-May, are over.

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