Midnapore, Dec 19: By the time assembly elections are held in West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will be left alone in her TMC, a cocky Union Home Minister Amit Shah asserted Saturday as a battery of TMC leaders including the redoubtable Suvendu Adhikari joined the BJP.
Adhikari, the foremost TMC leader with a mass base after Banerjee, shifted allegiance to the BJP, besides nine MLAs, including five of the ruling party, and a Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member in Shah’s presence.
The TMC’s slogan of “Maa, Mati, Manush” (mother, motherland and people) has been reduced to “extortion, corruption and nepotism”, Shah said, and exuded confidence that the BJP will form the next government in the state winning over 200 seats. West Bengal has a 294-member assembly.
“When the people of Bengal are rallying behind the BJP to transform the state why is she worried? This is just the beginning. These people are leaving your party voluntarily.
“The way leaders are deserting your party, by the time elections are held, Mamata Banerjee will be left alone in the TMC,” Shah said, taking a swipe at Banerjee. “The kind of Tsunami I see today, you would have never imagined,” an elated Shah said as Adhikar nodded in approval.
Shah said leaders and workers of rival political parties were joining the BJP because of the TMC’s “politics of appeasement and nepotism”.
“Good people from the Congress, Trinamool, CPI(M)…. all under the leadership of Suvendu Bhai, have joined BJP today to work under the leadership of Narendra Modi Ji,” he said. (PTI)
