{"id":4171,"date":"2019-01-29T20:43:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T15:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/?p=4171"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:12:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:42:44","slug":"comparing-mamata-banerjee-to-dhritarashtra-tripura-chief-minister-says-that-bjp-will-win-lok-sabha-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/comparing-mamata-banerjee-to-dhritarashtra-tripura-chief-minister-says-that-bjp-will-win-lok-sabha-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparing Mamata Banerjee to Dhritarashtra, Tripura chief minister says that BJP will win Lok Sabha elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Known for ill-considered remarks and allusions to Indian epics like the <em>Mahabharata<\/em>, Tripura chief minister Biplab Deb, has likened Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee to Dhritarashtra \u2013 the father of a hundred sons, the Kauravas, who met their match in the five brothers, Pandavas.<\/p>\n<p>Accusing the West Bengal chief minister of turning a blind eye to the \u2018syndicate raj\u2019 and the \u2018terror raj\u2019 that had descended upon the state, he said that \u2018the soil will not tolerate such things\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a rally at Arambagh in West Bengal\u2019s Hoogly district, the Tripura chief minister launched a three-pronged attack against the ruling regime in the state. The other BJP leaders holding rallies in the state before elections include Amit Shah and Giriraj Singh of the BJP.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the <em>mahagathbandhan<\/em> against the BJP, Biplab Deb stated that \u2018thieves\u2019 and been \u2018invited\u2019 into the state. He further added that the state administration was \u2018digging its own grave\u2019. Claiming that Dhritarashtra\u2019s Kauravas would lose to the Pandavas in 2019, the Tripura CM known for his frequent allusions to the epics for tales of internet and satellites, likened Mamata Banerjee to the blind king.<\/p>\n<p>Calling Bengal \u00a0a \u2018syndicate state\u2019, the Tripura CM said that the people of the state would \u2018lose their fear\u2019 soon. Dismissing the Trinamool Congress as a \u2018xerox copy\u2019 (photocopy) of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Deb stated that West Bengal sought the leadership of the \u201coriginal\u201d, Narendra Modi\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Known for ill-considered remarks and allusions to Indian epics like the Mahabharata, Tripura chief minister Biplab Deb, has likened Bengal counterpart Mamata&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":4172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_seo_keywords":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171","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=4171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}