“Ashamed, the CPI (M) is supporting the BJP, fearing actions against its leaders,” said Mamata Banerjee
Bankura / Murshidabad:
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of luring her party’s workers with millions of rupees. She also asked her group members to go “tyagee (disinterested)”.
“They (the BJP) are secretly offering money, in some places through law enforcement agencies, some media, not all. They are making phone calls to TMC workers, offering them (up to) Rs 2 crore to join the BJP The MLAs are receiving calls with an offer of Rs 15 lakh in advance, and another Rs 15 lakh after defection. This is embarrassing, “he said while addressing his first public meeting after the relaxation of COVID-restrictions. 19, in Bankura on Wednesday.
“What do you think I don’t know about these? I want to tell TMC workers that you have to make sacrifices, be selfless, work for the party,” he said.
Mocking Ms Banerjee’s advice to her party workers, Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh, who was in Murshidabad district that day, said the BJP does not need to offer money to TMC MLAs, as that they lack nothing.
“Look at the houses and cars of TMC leaders, can you say they are disinterested? Those who have built three-story buildings taking public money and are walking with gold chains are now termed disinterested. TMC’s MLAs are not without money, we have nothing to offer them, “Ghosh said, adding that if someone wants to” participate in Bengal’s development policy, we will take them with us. “
“I have accepted those who come, it is not about attracting TMC workers; they are leaving their positions, leaving the way to make money. Didi cannot keep them because people do not trust her.”
On the other hand, Ms Banerjee attacked the BJP, saying that while the world celebrates April Fools’ Day once a year, the BJP misleads people 365 days, Dilip Ghosh’s statements about cows.
“We know that there is an April Fool’s Day once a year, that is, on April 1, when people cheat on each other, but the BJP cheats on people 365 days,” Banerjee said.
“Sometimes he (Dilip Ghosh) says that drinking cow urine will protect him from coronavirus. He could have drank that, so how did he test positive for coronavirus? Ask him. Ghosh had also said that cow urine has gold in it. If this had been the case, everyone in the villages would have started raising cows. I will give the villagers cows if they can get gold from their urine, “he joked, also pointing to the IPC (M).
“Embarrassed, the CPI (M) is supporting the BJP, fearing action against its leaders,” he added.
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