Agartala: Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said her party will capture power at the Centre along with like-minded parties after the Lok Sabha elections. “We will capture power in Delhi along with like-minded parties after the general elections,” Banerjee said, addressing a poll rally at Shantibazar, around 100 kms from here.
Claiming that Congress, BJP and CPI(M) were hand in glove, she said she would continue attacking the Red bastion in Tripura and would spread her party’s base across the country within the next six months.
“I will regularly come to Tripura to crush the so called Red bastion. I came to Tripura about a month back and announced that I will visit the state after every three months, but have came back within one month. CPI(M) is now trembling in fear of the Trinamool. “We have ended the 34-year misrule of the Left in West Bengal and will now drive the CPI(M) away from Tripura,” she said. She alleged that no proper development had taken place in the state due to the “misrule” of CPI(M). “Tripura remains backward despite huge fund flow from the Centre. We do not get money from the Centre, still we have created eight government and 14 private universities in Bengal. In Tripura they could not set up a single university in the last 21 years,” she said.
The TMC supremo asserted that law and order had collapsed in the state and a regime of mafias was established. “Earlier, when I visited the state, expelled CPI(M) leader and former chief minister Nripen Chakraborty told me that Communism had withered away from Tripura and the present leadership had sold it to the mafias,” she said. She alleged the perpetrators of crime against women in West Bengal did not get any political indulgence and police took stern action against them. “But in Tripura, women are not safe and are being tormented by goons and not getting any legal help,” she said.
The West Bengal Chief Minister said the activists and supporters of Congress had made a beeline to join the TMC as a result of which there were no supporters and workers left in the Congress. (PTI)