Suvendu Adhikari (left) joined BJP in the presence of Amit Shah.
Calcutta:
Union Interior Minister Amit Shah welcomed high profile Trinamool Congress rebel Suvendu Adhikari to the BJP to the BJP on Saturday at a mega rally in Midnapore, West Bengal, sparing no shots at the minister in chief Mamata Banerjee.
“Why are so many people leaving the Trinamool Congress? Because of Mamata Banerjee’s misrule, corruption and nepotism. Didi, this is just the beginning. By the time the elections come around, they will leave you alone,” he said.
Adhikari first resigned from the cabinet on November 27 and then from the party on December 16. His associates have promised a “political storm more ferocious than Cyclone Amphan” to cross Bengal from Darjeeling to Digha “that will usurp Ms Banerjee’s government.
Shah previously cited the examples of freedom fighters like Khudiram Bose and Ramprasad Bismil in telling rival parties in West Bengal that indulging in regionalism was “superficial politics” and should be avoided.
Paying floral tributes to revolutionary Khudiram Bose in his ancestral place in Medinipur, 150 kilometers from Kolkata, the Interior Minister said that the country’s youth do not always have the chance to die for the nation like Bose, but they do have the chance to live. and follow the path of the brave revolutionary.
“To those who do ‘ochi rajneeti’ (superficial politics), I remind you that Khudiram Bose was as much from Bengal as the rest of the nation. Pandit Ramprasad Bismil belongs to both the UP and Bengal. The freedom fighters would not have imagined as ‘ochi rajneeti,’ “Shah said in Medinipur while speaking to the media.
His comments were likely directed at Trinamool’s attempts to paint the BJP as an “outsider” party that should not be given any space in West Bengal.
The Interior Minister, accompanied by BJP Bengal leader Dilip Ghosh and the party’s West Bengal head Kailash Vijayvargiya, then went on to have lunch at a farmer’s home in Belijuri village in West Midnapore district.
Mr. Shah arrived in Medinipur shortly after noon by helicopter from Kolkata. He offered prayers at the Siddheswari Kali temple and later at the Devi Mahamaya temple in the city.
The Interior Minister started his day in the state capital by offering prayers to Swami Vivekananda, Shri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and Sarada Devi at the Ramakrishna Ashram around 10:30 am.
“Vivekananda ji connected modernity and spirituality. He had said that if, for 50 years, everyone forgot their own gods and goddesses and prayed only to Bharat Mata, this nation would become conscious. Exactly 50 years after that, India won independence.” Said Mr. Shah said at the Ashram in the morning.
Shah’s visit to West Bengal comes nine days after a convoy of BJP chief JP Nadda was attacked by suspected Trinamool workers, sparking a major dispute between the center and the state.
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