Debra, May 8 :West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) chairperson Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday charged Prime Minister Narendra Modi with “throttling the voices of the people and even the media, through threats”.
She accused him of “running a fascist government”, and asked everyone to oust him from power.
Addressing a public meeting here, located in Paschim Medinipur district, which is part of the Ghatal Lok Sabha constituency, Ms Banerjee underlined the fact that only “Trinamool Congress speaks up against him and his party, and that they will stop the juggernaut of Modi”.
The chief minister said, ” The BJP will lose badly across the country. Narendra Modi is the biggest danger to the country today. “
“The BJP has continuously threatened the media into submitting to its wishes. But we will bell the cat. We will stop the BJP, ” the TMC supremo remarked.
She said, “In 1942, Mahatma Gandhi led the Quit India Movement, and today we are giving the slogan, ‘Modi, stop the fascism and leave. “
“Modi, you never came here when the people really needed you, in times of disaster. You are coming now only because of elections,” Ms Banerjee commented.
The TMC supremo said, ” The BJP’s leaders are saying so many things about winning seats, but they’ll win nothing. “
She said, ” In the name of ‘achhe din’, the BJP increased the prices of gas, petrol and diesel, imposed demonetisation, tortured Adivasis and scheduled castes, turned Bengalis out of Assam using the NRC, Biharis out of Gujarat and other places, and committed several other atrocities; hence we are asking you all now, to save the country, oust Modi’. “
“You have not received any of the benefits promised by Modi. On the other hand, Bengal has reduced unemployment by 40 per cent,” Ms Banerjee allged.
“We want leaders like Gandhiji, Netaji, Babasaheb Ambedkar, Rajendra Prasad, and people like Rabindranath and Kazi Nazrul,” the chief minister said.
“We have done a lot of work for the people. But this election is for electing a new government in Delhi, to change the government which instigates riots, kills people, and which will change the history and geography of the country, and even do away with elections if elected back to power,” she added.
