CALCUTTA: BJP Senior Official and Minister of the Interior of the Union Amit shah Friday said there was no need for the president’s rule in west bengal since I was sure of the saffron victory of the party in the 2021 assembly polls.
Addressing a press conference here on the second day of his visit to Bengal, Shah also hinted that BJP would like to stick with the ‘Modi-Mamata binary’ rather than project a new face (the leading ministerial candidate) months earlier. of the elections. “There are states like Uttar Pradesh, where we won the elections without projecting a CM face,” he said.
“There is no point talking about Article 356 (the president’s government due to the failure of the constitutional machinery in a state) when we are going to form the government in April (next year),” Shah told reporters.
“You (voters) gave the opportunity to Congress, the communists and Trinamool to rule Bengal. Give us a try. We will offer you a good rule, ”he said. Shah said he could feel the “public anger” against the current government. The top brass of the BJP want to focus on this “anger” to get votes for the party. The Interior Minister reiterated the Center’s commitment to grant citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from neighboring countries.
Earlier in the day, she promised it to community member Matua Nabin Biswas from Adarsha Pally de Baguiati, where she had lunch with the Biswas family. Matuas are a subsection of the Hindu Namashudra community, who had migrated to Bengal from the former East Pakistan.
Shah, however, did not say whether the refugees would obtain citizenship before the polls. “I am committed to implementing CAA in Bengal,” he said, adding: “The rule-making process for CAA was delayed due to the crown. We are committed to that. ”
Before lunch, Shah also went to the Matua Mahasangha Mandir in Gouranganagar, where he asked community members to increase ground activity in support of CAA.
Based on comments from over 180 BJP workers, whom he met in Bankura and Kolkata, and conversations he had with a cross-section of people in the past two days, Shah lashed out at the Trinamool government with three Ts: Tushtikaran ( appeasement), tanasahi (autocracy) and tolabazi (extortion). “The administration is politicized, politics has been criminalized and corruption has been institutionalized,” he said.
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