Smashing back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, the Trinamool Congress(TMC) accused him of spreading “misinformation” against its government in West Bengal and alleged that the BJP was running a syndicate that “peddles religious terrorism”.
In the speech of PM Modi seen on the broadcast which clearly attacked on the Mamata Banerjee government at a Midnapore rally charging it with “throttling democracy” and running a “syndicate raj” in the state without whose approval nothing moves.
On same speech even TMC came out with an equally scorching counter warning the BJP leaders “not to play with fire”.
TMC secretary general Partha Chatterjee and its leader in Rajya Sabha Derek O’ Brien jointly issued a statement in which alleged that it was the BJP which was running a “syndicate” of “lynching”.
The statement said “Syndicate. Who knows better than the BJP leaders about syndicate? Your party is a syndicate that peddles religious extremism. Your party is a syndicate for fanatics. Your party is a lynching syndicate. Your party is a torture syndicate. Your party is a syndicate for agencies. Your party is a syndicate which created notebandi (demonetisation). Your party is a syndicate of corruption. So, BJP leaders should not play with fire.”
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They TMC not only claims but also believes that the BJP leaders do not have a development agenda.
The statement also mentioned “Try as you may to harass us with your agencies, we will not bow down to any BJP syndicate. Bengal is for all. It is the cultural capital of the world. The BJP leaders speech proved that they have no development agenda at all.”
The TMC also countered allegations of farmers’ suicide in Bengal as “completely baseless”, the statement cited a parliamentary report on farmer suicide across the country where the figure in Bengal was zero.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been severely critical of the Modi Government policies. Hence the ruling party in West Bengal alleged “There were hardly any locals or farmers. There was a lot of corporate money spent for this political meeting.”
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