[ad_1]
By India Today News Desk: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday appealed to the people to ensure the BJP’s victory in 35 seats out of the 42 in West Bengal in the next Lok Sabha polls, saying that the TMC government would not survive beyond 2025 if the target is achieved.
Shah also asserted that Narendra Modi would again be the country’s prime minister in 2024.
“Let me make it very clear that in 2024, Narendra Modi will again be the country’s Prime Minister. The people of Bengal have given us great responsibility by giving us 77 seats in the last assembly polls,” PTI quoted Shah as saying.
“Give us more than 35 Lok Sabha seats from West Bengal, and I can assure you that the corrupt TMC government won’t survive beyond 2025,” Amit Shah claimed while addressing a rally in the Suri area of Birbhum district.
Meanwhile, the TMC criticised Shah’s comments and asked how a union minister could “openly threaten to topple an elected government”.
READ | Why Amit Shah is visiting Mamata’s state on eve of Bengali New Year’s Day
The Mamata Banerjee government is scheduled to complete its third term in 2026 and her party leaders termed Amit Shah’s speech as an “unconstitutional” threat. However, Banerjee personally refrained from making any comments.
The BJP won 18 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal in the 2019 elections and observers said doubling this number would require an immense organisational challenge.
Later in the evening, while visiting Dakshineswar Kali Temple in Kolkata, Shah again exuded confidence about winning 35 Lok Sabha seats from the state and said, “Prime Minister Narendra Modi would return to power by bagging more than 300 seats across the country in 2024 parliament polls.”
Leaders like Mamata Banerjee can “never give a befitting reply to Pakistan, fight militancy in Kashmir,” the BJP leader said, adding that only PM Modi can handle such national issues.
READ | How Mamata Banerjee challenged Amit Shah
Shah criticised the TMC over the arrest of its ministers and leaders in graft cases by the ED and CBI and said the party should be ashamed of itself.
Shah hit out at TMC and repeatedly used the phrase “Didi aur Bhatija” and claimed Banerjee does not care about the youth of Bengal who were being duped in the school jobs scam, as her only target was to make “her nephew the next chief minister of this state”.
“But let me clarify, the next West Bengal chief minister will be from the BJP. Only the BJP can fight and defeat the corrupt TMC. Under Mamata Banerjee’s rule, West Bengal has become a hub of bomb-making factories,” said Shah.
READ | BJP hired goondas from Bihar to riot in Bengal: Mamata Banerjee
On the recent clashes during Ram Navami rallies in West Bengal, Shah blamed it on the “appeasement politics” of the TMC government and said once the BJP wins more than 35 seats, “no one would dare attack Ram Navami rallies in the state.”
Shah’s comments drew sharp reactions from the TMC.
“He can dream of winning 35 seats, just like bagging 200 plus seats in the 2021 assembly polls. How can a union minister openly threaten to topple an elected government before it completes its full term? It is now proven that a conspiracy is on to topple the state government,” TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh was quoted by PTI as saying.
Referring to Shah’s attack on the TMC on the issue of dynasty politics, Ghosh said, “It seems Shah has forgotten that its leader in Bengal, Suvendu Adhikari himself, is a product of dynasty politics.”
READ | Mamata Banerjee inaugurates state-of-the-art Dhanadhanyo auditorium in Kolkata ahead of Bengali New Year
[ad_2]
