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‘Those who thought CM will become next PM..’: BJP targets TMC after poll results
Bengal BJP president said those who thought that the chief minister (Mamata Banerjee) will become the next prime minister have been given a befitting reply with the assembly election results on Thursday.
KOLKATA: As the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won the assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Manipur and Uttarakhand on Thursday, leaders of the saffron camp targeted the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in Bengal saying the results ended chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s dream of ousting the Narendra Modi government in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
“The results will rejuvenate our workers who are facing post-poll violence. Those who thought that the chief minister will become the next prime minister have been given a befitting reply,” said BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar, who led a victory procession in Kolkata.
Amid celebration by BJP workers across Bengal, where the party suffered defeat in the 2021 assembly polls and the recently held civic body elections, leaders took potshots at Banerjee for failing to win even one seat in Goa, where the TMC contested for the first time, and for trying to help the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh by campaigning there.
“By delivering speeches in wrong Hindi during her tours, Mamata Banerjee only spelt the doom for Akhilesh Yadav,” quipped BJP national vice-president Dilip Ghosh.
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Leader of the opposition in the state assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, said, “We wrested 18 of 42 seats in Bengal in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. In 2024, we will win at least 25. Mark my words.”
Countering the attacks, TMC state general secretary Kunal Ghosh said, “Our party set up its organisation in Goa barely 3 months ago. We did our best to introduce the TMC to Goa’s voters during this short span. In Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party has increased its seats despite electoral malpractices by the BJP. Today’s results will have no effect on the Lok Sabha polls.”
Ghosh targeted the Congress saying after being wiped out in all 5 states, the national party stands no chance of leading the anti-BJP forces in 2024.
Countering Ghosh, Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury accused the TMC of helping the BJP by dividing opposition votes.
“Didi (Mamata Banerjee) has been focusing on her one-point agenda. She helped Narendra Modi by weakening the Congress. But we are a national party. Our leaders will fight back,” Chowdhury said.
