Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a public meeting in Purulia on Thursday said that Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee\u2019s injury in Nandigram had pained him a lot. He wished her speedy recovery. At the meeting however, he attacked the Trinamool Congress and Mamata Banerjee, calling the Trinamool a corrupt party. He said “Ashol Poribartan” (real change) will come on May 2.<\/p>\n
Elections are scheduled in eight phases in West Bengal from March 27 to April 29. Results will be out on May 2.<\/p>\n
Speaking in Bengali, Modi said that people were aware of the \u201catrocities\u201d of the Trinamool government. \u201cPeople of Bengal will stop all this, and we will form the government,\u201d Modi said. He called the Trinamool as \u201cTransfer My Commission\u201d (TMC) while calling his government as DBT (direct benefit transfer).<\/p>\n
Taking a dig on the Trinamool Congress popular slogan, \u201ckhela hobe\u201d the PM said, \u201cWhen it comes to the development and welfare of people, we do not play games.\u201d He added, \u201cYou have played enough, now development will take place.\u201d<\/p>\n
He started his speech in Purulia with the problem of drinking water, stating that he is aware of the problems of local people and will solve it on an emergency basis. He emphasised on his oft-repeated promise of development through \u201cdouble engine\u201d \u2013 the same party ruling the state and Central governments. He took on the chief minister by asking why no development took place in Purulia and why not a single bridge was built in the last 10 years.<\/p>\n
Talking of development, he harped on the better connectivity of Purulia with the rest of Bengal and India. He said, \u201cWe have already approved of developmental projects worth Rs 50,000 cr. Through the Eastern Dedicated Freight Sector we will connect Purulia with Dankuni and there will be more development in the area.\u201d He also spoke of better road connectivity, which will mean that the youth of the area do not have to leave home for employment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a public meeting in Purulia on Thursday said that Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee\u2019s injury in Nandigram had pained him a lot. He wished her speedy recovery. At the meeting however, he attacked the Trinamool Congress and Mamata Banerjee, calling the Trinamool a corrupt party. He said “Ashol Poribartan” (real […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1236,"featured_media":13924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[387,57,400,49,513,92,583,46],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-bengal","8":"tag-assembly-elections-2021","9":"tag-bjp","10":"tag-jangalmahal","11":"tag-mamata-banerjee","12":"tag-nandigram","13":"tag-narendra-modi","14":"tag-top-story","15":"tag-trinamool-congress"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13923"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=13923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}