BJP President Amit Shah calls for parivartan in West Bengal, asking people to uproot the Trinamool Congress from the state and to vote for BJP in 2019 Lok Sabha polls

BJP President Amit Shah on Thursday called for parivartan in West Bengal and used the Bengali phrase “chalo paltai” (let us bring about a change) at a public meeting in the state’s Purulia district, where two BJP workers were found mysteriously hanging outside their homes a few weeks ago, in two separate incidents.

Paribartan or change was the call given by Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee in the run-up to the 2011 Assembly elections seeking to bring a change in the state from 34 years of continuous Left Front rule.

Shah, on the second day of his two-day visit to Bengal, visited the Tarapith temple in Birbhum district and reached Purulia district on Thursday, where he addressed a public meeting.

There, he said that the Trinamool Congress must be uprooted from Bengal if the benefits of the Narendra Modi government were to be felt in the state.

He said it was all very well that Mamata Banerjee was trying to bring together the non-BJP parties together nationally to fight the BJP, but she should be careful that the ground beneath her feet in Bengal was shrinking.

Shah alleged that Rs 3.6 lakh crore that had been allotted to the state by the Central government had not reached the poor but had gone to the Trinamool Congress syndicate.

“The money has not reached Bengal’s poor. Do you have drinking water, electricity, jobs? Where has the money gone? It has gone to the Trinamool Congress syndicate” he said, stating that the benefits of the Narendra Modi government weren’t percolating to the grassroots in the state.

He said the BJP had won in several states, including in Tripura, and in Tripura infiltration from Bangladesh could be stopped. “Do you want infiltration to stop here? Can’t a government stop infiltration if it wants to? These can happen if you uproot the Trinamool Congress from Bengal,” Shah said.

He added there were no industries in the state other than bomb factories.

“The Narendra Modi government is offering poor people Rs 5 lakh health insurance, but Mamata Banerjee says we don’t want it. Do you want it or not?” Shah asked the crowd. “She doesn’t want it because Narendra Modi is becoming more and more popular.”

Accusing Mamata Banerjee and her party of not allowing people to vote during the panchayat elections, Shah said that BJP workers had been killed during the elections. “Twenty of our men were killed, 1341 were injured and 2 crore people were not allowed to vote,” he said. “Still our party won several panchayat seats and this indicates what the results of the 2019 Lok Sabha will be.”

He said Bengal is a peace-loving state, but where there used to play Rabindrasangeet, there is now the sound of crude bombs. “It would be a mistake if they think they can continue to rule the state through violence,” Shah thundered.

“Our workers are being slapped with false cases. There is violence, but that’s not the culture of Bengal.”

Shah concluded the programme chanting Jai Shree Ram, Bharat Mata ki Jai. Ironically, perhaps that too had never been the culture of West Bengal.

BJP leaders alleged that their workers could not reach the venue as buses with supporters had been stuck on the road.

 

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