The Prime Minister, who predicted on Sunday that the match was over (“khela shesh”) For the Trinamool Congress, he had invited voters in 2014 to choose a winner-winner from Narendra Modi in Delhi and Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata.
“Aapke dono haath mein laddu”He said at an electoral rally on the same parade field as the brigade in 2014.
By the time the West Bengal Assembly elections were held two years later, Modi was targeting Mamata for Saradha’s scam and attacking the “union culture” in the state.
And while speaking of Pulwama-Balakot during his re-election campaign in 2019, the Prime Minister accused “Didi and his friends” of “speaking against the nation.”
The promise of development and of bringing back a “Sonar Bangla” (Golden Bengal) has been a constant theme in Modi’s speeches from 2014 to 2019. He spoke of “asol poriborton”(Real development) on Sunday as well.
“I want to speak directly to the people of Bengal,” Modi told Janachetana Sabha in Brigade on February 5, 2014. “Help the BJP win everything [Lok Sabha] seats this time. You have finished 34 years of left-wing rule in Bengal. You have a new government here. Let Mamata Banerjee work for you here. Ask him about the results. Give me all the bengal seats, bring poriborton in the country. So ask me what we do in Delhi. Aapke dono haath mein laddu …
“Good work from the state government alone will not be enough to change the fate of Bengal,” Modi said. “The Delhi government should also work for Bengal. I promise you that if you bring a change (in Delhi) we will bring Sonar Bangla back. “
The BJP won two seats in Bengal’s Lok Sabha in 2014.
On April 17, 2016, before the Assembly elections, Modi spoke on the Sahid Minar grounds in Kolkata Maidan. “What was the crime of [27] innocent people who lost their lives in the collapse of the Vivekananda bridge [near Posta on March 31 that year]he asked. “The same people you see in Narada [scam] they are also seen in Saradha and Vivekananda. These people are connected. Should the union culture be allowed to continue? Will Bengal survive if this culture continues? Didi has joined all the evils left by the left. “
His dream was “to develop eastern India,” Modi said. “My first agenda is development. My second agenda is fast-paced development. My third agenda revolves around development. “
The BJP won 3 seats in the Assembly elections; its ally, the GJM, won 3 seats in Darjeeling Hills.
The Prime Minister spoke again in Brigade on April 3, 2019. He attacked Mamata and the rest of the opposition for questioning the Balakot airstrikes. [of February 26, 2019], which followed the death of 46 CRPF staff members in a suicide bombing in Jammu and Kashmir on 14 February.
“At a time when we are moving towards an India that was imagined by Swami Vivekananda, there are some who, to oppose Modi, are speaking against Ma Bharti … Didi and his friends are speaking against the nation because they have lost political ground, “he said.
Referring to the ‘United India’ rally on January 19, 2019 called by Mamata in Brigade, Modi said: “The other day, political leaders from different parts of the country gathered here, raised their hands and chanted: ‘Modi Hatao Modi Hatao ‘. Why? What crime did Modi commit? Is it a crime to give bathrooms to homes? Is it a crime to give houses to the poor? Is it a crime to give electricity to homes? “
The BJP won 18 seats out of 42 in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
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