Kolkata, April 24: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday sharpened the BJP’s pitch for regime change in West Bengal, claiming that the first phase of polling has sealed a “wave of change” in the state and signalled the beginning of the end of the TMC’s “maha jungle raj”.
Addressing a poll rally at Panihati under the Dum Dum Lok Sabha constituency in North 24 Parganas district, Modi framed the high voter turnout as an endorsement of the BJP’s campaign for change and a rejection of what he described as the TMC’s “dictatorship”.
Nearly 93 per cent of the 3.60 crore electors voted in the first phase of the West Bengal assembly polls on Thursday.
“The wave of change that had been visible in Bengal for a long time – yesterday’s first phase of voting has put its seal on it. The support shown yesterday in favour of the BJP has sounded the conch shell of its victory,” he said.
Referring to women candidates fielded by the BJP, including the mother of the RG Kar hospital rape-murder victim and a survivor from Sandeshkhali, Modi said the party has given representation to those who had faced injustice.
“A mother helped her daughter become a doctor. That daughter was taken away from her by the TMC. We have made that mother a candidate,” the prime minister said, while referring to the BJP’s Panihati nominee Ratna Debnath, the mother of the RG Kar hospital rape-murder victim.
The BJP has also given an “opportunity to the victim of Sandeshkhali to lead,” he said. (PTI)
