Guwahati: Stopping short of naming Narendra Modi, West Bengal CM and TMC president Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday accused her Gujarat counterpart, projected as BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, of being involved in riots.
She affirmed that her Trinamool Congress (TMC) will not support any such person, involved in riots.
Addressing a public rally here, Banerjee took potshots both at the ruling Congress as well as the BJP, urging the people not to cast a single vote in favour of these two parties.
Referring to TMC’s association with BJP-led NDA earlier, she said it was Atal Behari Vajpayee’s leadership that had drawn the party towards the NDA.
‘We supported the BJP then because of Vajpayeeji, such a respectable person,’ she said.
The firebrand leader added that the TMC will not support a man involved in communal riots.
‘We cannot support a man who is accused of involvement in riots, who tries to divide our brothers and sisters along communal lines,’ Banerjee said, in an apparent reference to accusations of Modi’s backing of Gujarat riots.
She also took a dig at the ruling Congress, alleging that the party was bleeding out the country and selling it away.
Pointing that the incumbent PM, Dr Manmohan Singh, represents Assam in the Rajya Sabha, she said, ‘You (Assam) have given us the PM. But how many times has he come here? How much has he done for your state? When elections come, these leaders descend from their aircraft and forget once elections are over.’
Urging the people to vote for TMC, Ms Banerjee promised pro-people good governance from the party. (UNI)