‘Urge you to overthrow Trinamool, let BJP build sonar Bangla’: Amit Shah

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ought to win greater than 200 seats within the West Bengal meeting elections in 2021, Union house minister and the celebration’s former nationwide president Amit Shah advised leaders from 13 districts at a gathering in Bankura district on Thursday afternoon.

A district BJP chief who attended the closed-door assembly mentioned Shah requested the district and state leaders to strengthen the group proper right down to the polling sales space stage to make sure that the BJP wins greater than 200 of the state’s 294 meeting seats. Shah reportedly advised the leaders that they need to be decided to realize this goal as a substitute of constructing simply an effort.

The minister stunned everybody by not sporting a masks though different BJP leaders round him adopted the security protocol.

Halfway by means of the assembly, Shah took a break and went to Chaturdihi village with BJP state president Dilip Ghosh, nationwide common secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya, nationwide secretary Arvind Menon, nationwide vice-president Mukul Roy and different leaders to have lunch on the house of Bibhishan Hansda, a member of the native tribal neighborhood. Shah sat on the ground with others and had rice, chapati, dal and curry cooked in earthenware. He had all of the objects however stayed away from rosogolla, the standard Bengali candy, saying he had stopped taking candy dishes.

Significantly, former nationwide secretary Rahul Sinha, who distanced himself from the celebration for greater than two weeks after being dropped from the nationwide committee, additionally attended the organisational assembly.

About three hours earlier than he had lunch on the tribal village, Shah mentioned that the loss of life knell of the Mamata Banerjee authorities has been sounded and the BJP will come to energy with a two-third majority within the coming elections.

“The manner in which the Mamata Banerjee government has neglected the poor, the farmers, the backward classes and the tribal people and have oppressed people, especially BJP workers, I can clearly see that its death knell has been sounded. In the coming days, the BJP will come to power with two-third majority and form the government,” Shah advised the media shortly after garlanding the statue of Birsa Munda, the chief of the liberty motion carried out by tribal folks within the area towards the British Raj.

“I appeal to the people to overthrow this government and give the BJP the opportunity to build sonar Bangla (a golden Bengal),” mentioned Shah.

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee reacted to this whereas addressing an administrative assembly on the state secretariat in Kolkata across the identical time when Shah was having lunch greater than 200 km away.

“We will not tolerate the politics of threat. People should stay within their limits. People of Bengal will not accept outsiders,” Banerjee mentioned with out naming Shah.

Without naming the BJP, she mentioned, “A party is spreading the pandemic while common people are following Covid-19 health restrictions.”

Shah arrived in Kolkata on Wednesday evening. He flew to Bankura in a chopper a bit earlier than midday on Thursday.

“You (Mamata Banerjee) are wrong if you think that you can stop the BJP by stopping Central schemes in West Bengal. If you let people enjoy the benefits of these schemes they may at least spare some thoughts for you,” mentioned Shah after the brief garlanding ceremony of the Birsa Munda statue organised by the BJP.

The BJP confirmed its finest efficiency within the 2019 Lok Sabha polls in Bankura district. It gained two seats and stayed forward of the TMC in nearly all of the meeting segments.

“Amit Shah’s ambition of winning 200 assembly seats will remain a dream. Let BJP first find an acceptable face of its state leadership before contesting the polls,” TMC Lok Sabha member and celebration spokesperson Saugata Roy mentioned in Kolkata.