Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee On Sunday accused the BJP of beating up political opponents for daring to take out rallies in Tripura and claimed that even a woman MP was not spared.
She was referring to the attack on Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP Sushmita Dev allegedly by BJP workers in Tripura during a public relations program near Agartala on Friday.
The TMC wants to oust the saffron party from power in the north-eastern state in the 2023 assembly elections.
Rejecting BJP’s claims of violence on its workers in West Bengal, the TMC supremo said, “There is peace in West Bengal and it is not the peace of the graveyard.” “On the contrary look at what is happening in your state (Tripura). Anyone who dares to take out rallies against the BJP is hit with sticks. They do not allow injured TMC workers to get treatment in the hospital. A youth party worker was beaten up and taken to SSKM hospital (in Kolkata),” Banerjee said at a rally in Siliguri.
Banerjee said the opposition parties have no problem in running political programs in West Bengal but the BJP does not follow this principle.
“The daughter of (late Congress leader) Santosh Mohan Dev was attacked in Tripura as she had gone to attend a party event. A woman MP was attacked,” he said on that incident. In which Sushmita Dev was assaulted and her car was allegedly damaged. BJP workers in Amtali area near Agartala, the capital of Tripura.
Banerjee claimed that even in BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh, opposition parties are not allowed to move freely. A delegation of TMP MPs had met the family members of farmers killed in the violence in UP’s Lakhimpur Kheri earlier this month and claimed that they had tricked policemen into posing as tourists.
“Every day, the BJP promotes lies and tries to promote disharmony among the people. But TMC will not allow the BJP to follow its policy of hatred. We will replace the communal harmony, the culture and heritage of Bengal. will protect.” TMC chief said at the rally. Banerjee also said that she doubts the much-publicized achievement of the Centre’s achievement of reaching the 100 crore vaccination mark against Covid-19 in the country.
“If you consider the people of 18 years, the total population will be 130-150 crore. Children’s vaccination has not started yet and only 29.51 crore (people) have received two doses. Don’t know how they came to 100. Crore mark. This is a hoax,” he said. West Bengal, on the other hand, vaccinated seven crore people with at least one dose, the state chief minister said.
“We will soon be able to reach 100 per cent immunization despite insufficient supplies from the Centre. We will procure on our own from vaccine manufacturers,” he said. Banerjee said that West Bengal ranks third in the country in immunization figures, although, she claimed, it received fewer vaccines than UP, Maharashtra and Gujarat. At a rally in north Bengal’s largest city of Siliguri, the CM said his government had mostly administered the Kovidshield vaccine, while he wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to ensure that the vaccine was administered to the World Health Organization (WHO). ) has been approved.
Banerjee elaborated that the TMC stood for the unity and integrity of North Bengal and would not allow the division of the region. BJP MP John Barla, now the Union Minister of State for Minority Affairs, had in June demanded a separate Union Territory, which would include all North Bengal districts, arguing that the region had hardly grown in the past decade. There has been no development. The chief minister also criticized the Center for recently amending the BSF Act, which empowers the Border Security Force to conduct searches, seizures and arrests in Punjab, West Bengal and Assam within 50 km of the existing 15 km from the international border. has given.
“We have nothing against BSF, but we should be told by the Center about the motive behind such a decision. We have good relations with Bhutan, Bangladesh and others. We cannot fight any force in the border areas. Will not allow any bid to incite riots. In West Bengal where the situation is peaceful.” He also attacked the BJP for rising fuel prices, claiming that the middle class and poor people are forced to switch to chulhas as the price of LPG cylinders has reached Rs 850-900.
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