“The BJP is targeting me and Abhishek, we are not safe, but we are also not afraid of the saffron party’s conspiracy. We urge everyone to be on guard against a conspiracy against TMC leaders and the people of West Bengal,” she said. The TMC supremo was addressing an election rally at Kumarganj in Balurghat Lok Sabha seat in favour of party candidate and state minister Biplab Mitra.
Responding to Adhikari’s remark, the TMC supremo said, “There is a traitor who joined the BJP to protect his family and ill-gotten wealth. Let me tell him, his threat to trigger a chocolate bomb explosion is treated with contempt by us.” Adhikari, a former TMC minister, defected to the BJP ahead of the 2021 assembly elections in the state.
“If you have courage, come up with truths, come up with facts. I guess it takes time for you to fully build up a false narrative, to fully hatch the conspiracy. But rest assured we are ready to counter,” she said. “We will counter him by bursting firecrackers. For us firecrackers are unravelling discrepancies in PM Care Fund and ‘jumla’ of crediting Rs 15 lakh in every citizen’s bank account. He only peddles falsehood,” she said.
The TMC supremo alleged that the BJP is bringing in outsiders to the state to foment trouble. At another meeting in Balurghat, the Lok Sabha constituency of BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar, Banerjee said the Covid vaccination certificate only had the photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Accusing Majumdar of keeping mum on non-payment of 100 days’ work to the poor labourers of villages and non-release of Awas Yojana funds by the Modi government, she said “Your (Majumdar) party leaders are asking bosses in Delhi to stop payment to the poor.”
“The BJP has sold the country…Our people (TMC MPs) fought hard in Parliament. Your MP sleeps in an AC room. They don’t talk to or meet people. Your government doesn’t pay for 100 days’ of work scheme in Bengal. Will you vote for the person who deprives Bengal, don’t give money? They (BJP MPs) repeatedly went to the Prime Minister and told him not to give money to Bengal but they didn’t,” she added.