Your tenure is over: Narendra Modi targets Mamata Banerjee during Basirhat rally
Basirhat, May 15 (IBNS): As poll campaigning reached feverish pitch under the shadow of a violent clash a day ago in Kolkata, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a rally in Basirhat area of West Bengal on Wednesday and targeted Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee saying her days are nearly over.
Modi said his BJP will return to power in the Centre with 300 seats.
"I'm saying that Bengal will help us win more than 300 seats," Modi said while addressing a rally.
He also targeted Mamata over the meme issue and said: "Didi I'm told you are an artist and a painter. Why are you offended by a photograph."
"Since you're a painter, please paint as uncomplimentary picture of mine as possible and then keep it with you. After May 23 when I take oath as PM please gift it to me and I will keep it forever. I assure you that I will not file an FIR against you," he said.
Speaking on the violence that occurred during a roadshow by BJP chief Amit Shah in North Kolkata, Modi said, "Two days ago, she had said that she will take revenge and see within 24 hours of her remark, Amit Shah was targetted during the roadshow."
Modi will also address a rally in Diamond Harbour later in the day.
Accusing West Bengal's ruling party of hatching a conspiracy against the saffron outfit, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president Amit Shah on Wednesday said the Trinamool Congress goons have actually vandalised the bust of Bengali's iconic social reformer Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar to win the "lost" Lok Sabha polls.
Shah at a press conference said: "We were outside the Vidyasagar college and the gate of the college was intact. Then who vandalised the bust? It was a conspiracy by Trinamool and vandalised the bust. Who broke the locks of the college? How could BJP workers get the keys of the college room. All these prove that Trinamool goons vandalised the bust to win the lost battle."
The bust was kept in a glass showcase in the premises of Vidyasagar College. Prior to the vandalisation, a scuffle between the BJP and Trinamool supporters broke out outside Calcutta University in north Kolkata through which Shah's roadshow was passing.
Shah also said no other state, where BJP is fighting several opposition parties, is witnessing such violence.
"No violence in other states but only Bengal which means Trinamool is the reason behind it. If BJP was the reason then violence would have taken place in all other states," said he.
Image Credit: Bengal BJP Twitter page
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