Bhagwangula, Murshidabad: West Bengal Prime Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) the above Mamata Banerjee On Monday he claimed that Congress And CPI(M) She fielded candidates in constituencies with a large number of voters from the religious minority community to cut off her party’s votes and help the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party).
“The CPI (Maoist) and the Congress are the eyes of the BJP in West Bengal. If you vote for them, you vote for the BJP.”
Addressing a rally in Bhagwangula seeking votes for Abu Tahir Khan, her party’s candidate in Murshidabad Lok, she said, “The CPI (Maoist) and the Congress are contesting seats dominated by minorities so that they can help the BJP by cutting off votes.” Transitional Military Council. Sabha district.
She also targeted the Congress and the Communist Party of India (Maoist) at another rally in the neighboring Jangipur Lok Sabha constituency, where her party fielded Khalilur Rehman, who won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and secured 43.15 per cent votes.
Abu Tahir Khan, who won the 2019 elections, now faces a tough challenge from Muhammad Saleem, state secretary of the Communist Party of India and Left Front candidate in Murshidabad.
Salem also has the support of the Congress, which has entered into an electoral understanding with the CPI(M), leaving behind the previous animosities between the two parties in West Bengal.
The CPI(M) is also supporting Congress MP Murtaza Hussain in Jangipur.
Muslims constitute more than 60 percent of voters in the Murshidabad and Janjpur parliamentary constituencies.
These are among the approximately 15 electoral districts in the state where voters from religious minorities can play important roles in deciding the fate of candidates.
With the TMC fearing that minority votes would shift to the Congress and the CPI(M), Banerjee targeted the two parties in her rallies in the two constituencies on Monday.
“There is no Hindu alliance in West Bengal. Here, the CPI(M) and the Congress are working in favor of the BJP,” the Prime Minister said.
The BJP has fielded Dhananjay Ghosh and Gaurishankar Ghosh in Jangipur and Murshidabad respectively.
Banerjee accused the BJP of resorting to divisive politics and using the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) as a political ploy in the elections. She said UCC would not benefit Hindus anyway.
“Whenever elections are held, they use one issue or the other to incite communal tensions. This time they are talking about UCC and promoting that it is against a particular community. But this is just political rhetoric, and Hindus will not benefit from it in any way,” she added.
Banerjee claimed that the voting pattern and turnout in the first two of the seven phases of polling in the Lok Sabha elections indicated that the BJP had already lost.
She expected the BJP to be defeated in the remaining five phases as well. “The defeat of the saffron camp is only a matter of time,” she said.
The TMC accused the BJP of “peddling lies” over the Citizenship Amendment Act (Central Auditing Organization).
“The CAA is a trap to convert legal citizens into foreigners. Once the CAA is implemented, modernization of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) will follow. We will not allow CAA nor NRC in West Bengal,” Banerjee said.
(Published April 29, 2024, at 14:35 he)