Baruipur/Raidighi(WB): Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday blasted Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress President Sonia Gandhi for spreading “canards” about her and said it was fear of her which drove the Congress and CPI-M to forge an alliance.
“Narendra Modi, Sonia Gandhi. Such big leaders. You will never find them in Bengal. They don’t even enquire about the state. Now they are roaming here and spreading canards about me,” she told an election meeting at Baruipur in South 24-Parganas district. “BJP is trying to scare us by sending the police from Delhi (for election). I don’t blame the police. They (BJP)are declaring more than Emergency,” she claimed.
“They can’t run Delhi (central government). They only create Hindu-Muslim divide and flare up tension. They try to scare when election comes. They want to dismiss all state governments. Other states may accept but Bengal will not”, she thundered. Claiming that Modi enjoyed a cordial relationship with CPI-M and Congress, she said, “Modi’s opposition to the Congress in public is nothing but an eyewash”. Ahead of the crucial fifth phase poll on April 30, the TMC chief asked her partymen not to be afraid of the central forces.
“Don’t be afraid of central forces. There will also be a smear campaign. Do the election in an intelligent way. There is no cause for worry. We will be there. I don’t want to listen to anything. We have to win,” she told her party’s election agents and workers at Raidighi. (IANS)
