West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said she will not allow her state to be turned into Gujarat, as the Bharatiya Janat...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said she will not allow her state to be turned into Gujarat, as the Bharatiya Janata Party sets the agenda for the upcoming Assembly elections with sharpened attacks on the Trinamool Congress chief’s policies on development, reported PTI.
“Bengal thrives on excellence and merit,” Banerjee said. “We cannot allow to turn it into Gujarat.”
The chief minister asserted that people of the state will have to prevent the saffron party from immolating the Gujarat model of development there. “The soil of Bengal is the source of life,” she said. “We have to protect this soil. We have to take pride in this. There is no one who can come from outside and say this place will be turned into Gujarat.”
Banerjee was referring to Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s promise that if voted to power, the BJP would implement policies that will facilitate development.
During his two-day visit to the state, Shah had criticised Banerjee for her references to BJP as “the party of outsiders” and said that the next chief minister of West Bengal will be “a son of the soil”. He claimed people were yearning for change to get rid of “corruption, political violence, extortion and Bangladeshi infiltration”.
The home minister...
