Tripura CM Biplab Deb said Amit Shah spoke of plans for BJP’s expansion to Nepal and Sri Lanka (archive)
Guwahati:
Tripura Prime Minister Biplab Deb has run into another controversy for his comments on politics and politics, and this time it is international politics.
At a BJP event in the state capital Agartala, Biplab Deb said that the party has plans not only to expand across the country but also into neighboring nations.
Biplab Deb said that Interior Minister Amit Shah has plans to establish BJP governments in Nepal and Sri Lanka.
The Chief Minister shared a conversation he claimed to have had while preparing for the 2018 Tripura assembly elections. The BJP eventually defeated the Left Front government in the state.
Biplab Deb said that Amit Shah, who was then head of BJP, during a meeting spoke about expanding “overseas” after winning in all the states of India.
“We were speaking at the state guesthouse when Ajay Jamwal (BJP Northeast Zone Secretary) said that the BJP formed its government in several states. In response, Amit Shah said that now Sri Lanka and Nepal remain. in Sri Lanka, Nepal and win there to form a government, ”Biplab Deb said of the conversation she claimed to have had then.
The chief minister said that the Trinamool Congress of West Bengal’s chief minister, Mamata Banerjee, will be defeated in the state elections to be held soon.
Biplab Deb praised Shah’s leadership for making the BJP the “largest party in the world.” The Chief Minister said that the BJP will change the trend of change of government between the left and Congress every five years in Kerala and will emerge as the winner in the southern state as well.
Biplab Deb has often been caught on the wrong foot in the past. His comments in April 2018 that internet and satellite communication existed in the days of the Mahabharata were widely shared on social media.
“The Europeans and Americans may claim it is theirs, but it is really our technology,” Biplab Deb had said.
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