No difference between Modi and ‘Didi’, Bengal needs to be rescued: Congress

Kolkata, Feb 28: The opposition ‘grand alliance’ will win the upcoming assembly elections in West Bengal, senior Congress leaders asserted on Sunday while addressing a mega rally in Kolkata, maintaining that the country needs to be saved from the BJP and the state rescued from the ruling Trinamool Congress.
Addressing lakhs of supporters at the Brigade parade grounds, state Congress president Adhir Chowdhury said the gathering proved that the Bengal elections will not be a two- cornered contest.
“The grand alliance of the Left-Congress and other secular forces will defeat both the TMC and the BJP,” Chowdhury, the leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha, said.
He said that the BJP and the TMC want that other than the two, there should not exist any other political force in Bengal and that no other party should come between them.
“But in the future, there will not be any BJP or TMC. Only the grand alliance will remain,” he claimed.
Those trying to propagate the idea that TMC and BJP are the only ones contesting the polls in West Bengal have been proved wrong by the huge gathering, he said.
“Morning is the harbinger of the day, and this meeting proves that the TMC and BJP will be defeated in the coming elections,” Chowdhury said.
He said that the goal of the alliance is to ensure the victory of secularism and democracy and to defeat communal and repressive politics in Bengal.
Alleging that both the BJP and the TMC are trying to divide the people, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel said that the country has to be saved from one, and Bengal has to be rescued from the other.
Baghel claimed that the Narendra Modi government is selling off public sector enterprises and infrastructure like railway stations and airports built by the earlier Congress governments.
“Both the BJP and TMC are trying to divide the people. The country has to be saved from one and Bengal has to be rescued from the other,” he said, addressing the rally.
“We had fought earlier against the Whites and now we have to fight against the thieves,” he said, remembering Bengal’s contribution to the freedom struggle.
Noting that Modi had earlier given the slogan that the “country will not be sold”, Baghel questioned why are railway stations and airports being privatised.
“Now it has become the ‘West India Company’, handing over everything to two entities,” he said, without naming anyone. (PTI)