Abhishek Banerjee focuses on Mamata-daughter theme -Bengal wants its own daughter and nobody else
He also took a dig at BJP on "Sonar Bangla'', regularly used by leaders of all tiers of the saffron brigade, from Modi, Shah and Nadda to local leaders
Using Trinamul’s slogan “Bangla nijer meyekei chay (Bengal wants its own daughter and nobody else)”, released in Calcutta on Saturday, Abhishek at his Jalpaiguri public meeting propped up Bengal’s “Didi” as “daughter” to lash out at the BJP.
“Do you want the daughter of Bengal to surrender before Delhi? She is the only woman chief minister in the country now and the BJP is hell-bent in removing her from power. They will never succeed in their intention as Mamata Banerjee lives in the hearts of millions of this state,” Abhishek, also Mamata’s nephew, told the 25,000-plus crowd at the European Club Ground in Nagrakata of Jalpaiguri.
Indicating the saffron camp, Abhishek said “outsiders” were coming here before the elections.
“We will not succumb to threats. Let me reaffirm that eventually the attempts of these external elements will be thwarted by Bengal’s people,” said Abhishek.
Abhishek liberally used the newest slogan, which indicates Trinamul’s strategy to drive home the point that Mamata is “Bengal’s daughter” versus “outsiders” in the saffron camp.
Abhishek also took a dig at the BJP on “Sonar Bangla”, regularly used by leaders of all tiers of the saffron brigade, from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union home minister Amit Shah and BJP chief J.P. Nadda to local leaders.
“They claim they will build Sonar Bangla (bring back Bengal’s golden era). First, they should tell us why they could not build a ‘Sonar Bharat’ (a golden India) or a ‘Sonar Gujarat’ or a ‘Sonar Tripura’ or a ‘Sonar Uttar Pradesh’. These are false claims and people will not buy it…”
He questioned why in north Bengal, where the BJP performed well in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, none of the BJP MPs were seen in public during the pandemic and lockdown last year. “However, our leaders and elected representatives were out in the streets (helping people),” said the Trinamul MP.
He was also vocal against those who joined the BJP.
“Some rotten elements have left our party…they were pests and insects and now they have moved to another ground. We want to make it clear that a person who has emerged as a leader from the ground will get the ticket. All we want from you is all the seven Assembly seats of Jalpaiguri district and we assure you that Trinamul will come to power for the third time with 250 seats,” Abhishek said.
Some Trinamul leaders in Dinhata subdivision of Cooch Behar demanded on Saturday that Udayan Guha, the party’s MLA of Dinhata, be replaced with a new candidate before the Assembly elections.
“We want to alert our party leadership that if they do not change the candidate, they will lament. We will put all efforts to ensure Trinamul’s win in Dinhata but the party should confirm that there will be a new candidate,” said Mir Humayan Kabir, a former block president of Trinamul and a member of Cooch Behar Zilla Parishad.
An observer said this was nothing but Trinamul’s infighting. None of the district leaders commented on this. Guha, the Dinhata MLA, could not be contacted.
Additional reporting by our Cooch Behar correspondent
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