Mamata should fulfil her CM duties: Cong

“The dream of becoming PM should be kept aside and steps should be taken to provide security to women. Incidents of rapes and atrocities against women have become a daily affair in Bengal,” said Dasmunsi on the sidelines of a hunger strike demanding AIIMS hospital in Raiganj, her constituency.

Congress leader Shakeel Ahmed Khan attacked Banerjee for her comment on ‘ending monarchy’ and said her knowledge about Indian history was weak as monarchy had come to an end in 1947 with the end of British rule.

“What monarchy is she taking about? In India it is democratic rule. But in this democratic rule if someone is trying to bring in monarchy and dictatorship, then it is Mamata Banerjee’s government.”

Khan also took a dig at Banerjee for not coming out clean on BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi. “Mamata Banerjee is dreaming of becoming the PM. She is yet to come out clean on Narendra Modi. Both Narendra Modi and Rajnath Singh have praised Banerjee, everybody knows the meaning.”

Somen Mitra, who recently defected from TMC, said “Even if Trinamool wins all the 42 seats, I can’t understand how will she play a deciding factor, as the Lok Sabha consists of more than 500 seats.”

Kickstarting her party’s campaign for the Lok Sabha election at a rally here Thursday, Banerjee, who had shared power earlier with NDA and UPA at the Centre, attacked both saying “we do not want dynastic rule, nor do we want a government of rioters at the Centre”.

Renewing her call for a federal front of non-Congress and non-BJP political parties, Banerjee had Thursday lashed out at the BJP saying her party does not want ‘a government of rioters’ and announced that TMC would go it alone in the coming Lok Sabha election.