Out of fear, Mamta didn't allow me to hold rallies: Yogi Adityanath

Balurghat: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath came down heavily on the Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee by saying that out of fear, she didn't allow me to address rallies here on Sunday.

“Out of fear, Bengal’s Trinamool government did not allow me to go there and that is why I am with you through Modi ji’s Digital India programme. The Bengal government is playing with national security,” said Adityanath.

Adityanath was scheduled to address two rallies at Balurghat in Dakshin Dinajpur district and Raiganj in Uttar Dinajpur district, but the safforn party accused the West Bengal government of denying permission to his helicopter to land here.

“This is an anti-democratic, anti-people and anarchic government. The state government is upset as it is scared of BJP’s rise,” he said while addressing the rally over phone.

Accusing Trinamool government of obstructing BJP President Amit Shah’s ‘Rath Yatra’ rally, Yogi said that in democracy, there is a difference of opinion but in Bengal, the opposition's voice is being supressed.

Refering to the January 19 public meeting of 23 anti-BJP parties in Kolkata, he said the leaders who attended the event should hide their faces now because the Bengal government has been continuously suppressing people’s opinion.

The leaders at the January 19 rally had given a call to uproot the Modi government at the Centre in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

Adityanath also alleged that efforts were made to stop Durga puja worship during Navratri in West Bengal, and that the Calcutta High Court had to finally intervene.

He urged party activists to fight against “goons of Trinamool Congress” and assured the audience that the state government would “fail to stop the rise of the saffron outfit in the state” and that the “BJP would come to power”.