BJP buying votes and support against money<\/strong><\/p>\nMamata Banerjee today alleged that the BJP has been distributing money in some areas of West Bengal to \u201cpurchase\u201d support and votes. In some places they are offering money, in certain areas they are giving bikes. \u201cI found this sort of thing happening in Alipurduar,\u201d she said. \u201cBut 100 votes can be purchased, not 10 crore votes,\u201d Banerjee added. She asked people to lodge complaints with the police if they found out similar cases.<\/p>\n
She said the Prime Minister and home minister, before asking the states to take action on lynching, ought to stop their party president and other party leaders from making statements that lead to strife. There are attempts to create riots and strife, she said.<\/p>\n
At the Kolkata rally, Mamata Banerjee spoke of the need to break religious extremism and the need for religious unity. \u201cI don\u2019t approve of your (the BJP’s) notions of Hinduism that talk of only hatred. Here\u2019s a king bigger than Hitler and Mussolini,\u201d Banerjee said. \u201cDemocracy and secularism are in crisis. We have to come out of it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Mamata Banerjee also asked the Congress in West Bengal to come to a conclusion what their policy on the Trinamool Congress was going to be. \u201cIn the panchayat election, the CPM, BJP and the Congress fought together,\u201d she said. \u201cWe are helping each other at the national level, so you must decide what your stand is going to be here,\u201d she said, referring to the Congress leaders from West Bengal.<\/p>\n
New entrants <\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/strong>Former BJP MP Chandan Mitra, former CPM MP Moinul Hassan, Congress\u2019 Samar Mukherjee, Abu Taher, Sabina Yasmin and Akhuzzman joined the Trinamool Congress today. Expelled CPM MP Ritabrata Bandopadhyay was also seen on the dais, but he hasn\u2019t officially joined the party. According to Mamata Banerjee, Ritabrata was present as an \u201cobserver\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cBengal will show the way. We will show the way to the Parliament,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":2013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012","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\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}