Women in West Bengal are outraged and the storm that began in Sandeshkhali is not going to stay restricted to the island however attain each nook of West Bengal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned at this time. Firing barbs on the Mamata Banerjee authorities over what has emerged as the largest speaking level in Bengal politics, the Prime Minister mentioned the Bengal authorities is utilizing all its may to avoid wasting a “culprit” – an obvious reference to Sandeshkhali strongman Sheikh Shahjahan.
Switching to Bengali, the Prime Minister gave the BJP’s battle cry, “Ei baar, 400 paar, NDA sarkar, 400 paar” at a rally of the BJP’s Mahila Morcha in Barasat, in the identical district as Sandeshkhali.
Ahead of the Barasat occasion, the Prime Minister opened a number of new routes of Kolkata Metro and likewise took a experience in it whereas interacting with a number of schoolgoers.
The Prime Minister mentioned modernising public transport is a precedence for his authorities. Several generations, he mentioned, have grown up Kolkata Metro. “When I first came to Kolkata as a child, seeing the Metro was an attraction. But today, the Kolkata Metro is also a witness to the fast pace at which the BJP government works. In the 40 years before 2014, the Kolkata Metro route expanded to 28 km. But in the past 10 years, 31 km of Metro route have been added. The BJP government has worked very honestly for the development of Bengal and the country,” he mentioned.
Leaders of the Opposition’s INDIA alliance, of which the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress is a component, are scared because the BJP is ready to return to energy, the Prime Minister mentioned. “They are losing their sleep and their balance, so they have started abusing Modi,” he added.
“Leaders of the INDIA alliance are now saying that I talk against dynastic politics because I have no family. They want to know where my family is. These dynasts should come here. This is Modi ka parivar,” he mentioned, doubling down on the BJP’s marketing campaign to counter RJD patriarch Lalu Yadav’s “Modi has no family” jab.
Pointing on the girls within the crowd, he mentioned the moms, sisters and daughters defend him from each problem. “For me, the mothers and sisters of Bengal rise like Goddess Durga,” the Prime Minister mentioned.
The Prime Minister mentioned he left residence at a younger age and wandered throughout the nation. “I did not have a dime in my pocket. But you would be proud to know that one or the other family would ask me daily if I have eaten. I roamed around with a jhola, but I never spent a day hungry. That’s why I say 140 crore people of this country are my family,” he mentioned, including, “I am now trying to repay those favours.”
Bengal’s girls energy, he mentioned, has given a path to the nation. “But, in this land, under the Trinamool rule, women have suffered atrocities. Trinamool has committed a grave sin. What happened in Sandeshkhali would make anyone ashamed. But the Trinamool government doesn’t care about your pain. It is using all its might to protect the oppressor of Bengali women, but they have faced jolts in the high court and in the Supreme Court.”
The PM’s barbs on the Mamata Banerjee authorities come towards the backdrop of the tug of battle between Bengal police and the CBI over Sheikh Shahjahan’s custody. The Calcutta High Court has requested Bengal police at hand over Shahjahan to the central company. The Mamata Banerjee authorities has challenged the ruling within the Supreme Court and refused at hand him over until the courtroom takes a call. Shahjahan was earlier arrested after being on the run for 52 days. While the Trinamool has expelled him, the BJP says individuals of Sandeshkhali, who’ve accused him and his aides of sexual harassment, land seize and extortion, will get no justice until central company grills him.
The Trinamool authorities, he mentioned, trusts leaders who commit atrocities, however not the ladies of the state. “Women from Bengal and the country are outraged. This storm won’t remain restricted to Sandeshkhali. It will reach the whole Bengal. Bengal’s Nari Shakti has set out to destroy Trinamool’s Mafia rule. Sandeshkhali has shown that only BJP is the voice of the women of Bengal. The Trinamool government, under the pressure of appeasement and extortionists, will never help women,” he mentioned.
Calling the Mamata Banerjee authorities “anti-women”, he mentioned a number of welfare schemes launched for ladies haven’t been carried out in Bengal.
The Prime Minister additionally met a bunch of ladies from the Sandeshkhali island. “After the public meeting, the Prime Minister met a few women from Sandeshkhali. They narrated their ordeal and the Prime Minister heard them patiently like a father figure. The victims were very emotional,” a celebration supply mentioned.