Won’t be polite to Opposition once TMC is voted back in power: Mamata Banerjee

Referring to the recent sting operation carried out by the news portal Narada News, which purportedly showed several senior TMC leader accepting bribe from a fictitious company, the Trinamool chief said, “The CPM leaders have built property worth thousands of crores and now they are calling the TMC thieves, a party which is comparatively younger. Once we are back (in power), we will ask for the accounts of their properties and they will have to answer us.”

Mamata also claimed that the TMC was no longer a young sapling which would need protection but a mighty tree which stood on its own strength.

Taking a dig at the “electoral understanding” between the Congress and CPM, the CM said those parties which needed support to survive are creepers. “CPM has proved that it has no principle after it joined hands with Congress. Both the shameless parties have come together,” she said.

Canvassing support for her party candidate Sameer Chakraborty in Taldangra, a seat which has been won by CPM for the last 39 years, the Trinamool chief said the Opposition party had not done anything for the people there.

Talking about the lack of infrastructure and civic amenities here, Mamata said,”The CPM had only converted this place into a breeding place for terror. In the last four years of the TMC government, I have worked for Bankura by setting up the Bankura University, provided four super-speciality hospitals, and started an ambitious water supply project worth Rs 1,100 crore that would benefit around 34 lakh people when completed in two phases.”

A Rs 1,200-crore water supply project has also been taken up in neighbouring Purulia district, she added.

She also alleged that some of the officials of the coordination committees who supported the CPM had tried to sabotage the project under which the state government provided rice and wheat for Rs 2 a kg.

Attacking the Centre, Mamata said the BJP government was a ‘dalal’ (agent) for CPM and Congress. “The BJP should rather watch out in Delhi where its government might not stay for another term, rather than trying to form a government in Bengal.”

Meanwhile, in another rally in Kharagpur, Mamata rooted for Trinamool Congress candidate Ramprasad Tiwari and said the pending development works in the constituency will be a priority work for the government if her party comes to power.

“I have known Gyan Singh Sohan Pal for long and have great respect for him. Still, I think much needs to be done for Kharagpur’s development and Trinamool Congress will do that if it gets the opportunity,” the CM said. Gyan Singh, fondly called chacha’ by his admirers, is the Congress-Left Front alliance candidate from IIT and Railway town Kharagpur, from where he has won consecutive times. BJP state president Dilip Ghosh is also contesting from the seat.

“CPM has been the arch rivals of Congress for over three decades and many Congress workers were murdered during the Left Front regime. Yet, their lust for power is such that they have now formed a poll alliance. People will defeat them and give them a befitting reply,” she said.