'Dictatorial' Modi Govt must go: CM Mamata Banerjee

on Monday said the situation in the country is dangerous and the country needs ‘poriborton’ (change).

Addressing a meeting of the extended core committee of the party, the Chief Minister said 'We want poriborton in India. We want Modi-Amit Shah to be ousted. We had earlier said ‘Du hajar unish, BJP finish’. BJP hatao, Desh bachao. '

She gave directions to the party workers and leaders regarding the coming Lok Sabha elections and said. 'Let us take the pledge today to remove the dictatorial Modi regime from power.'

The TMC supremo said,'The days of Modi babu are over. The days of arrogance are over. The days of traitors are over. Bangla will show the way to the rest of the country.'

Banerjee alleged there is RSS stamp on everything today, and they follow an extremist ideology, spreading hate and violence.

She said, 'Some people with ulterior motives are spreading rumours to incite communal tension. Even journalists who question the government are being harassed.'

The TMC supremo said,'There is no rule of law in the country. In Bangla, we said 'Bodla noy, bodol chai' (we want change not revenge). But that is not the case in UP. '

The chief minister said,'All the thieves have united. All the CBI-ED ponthis (followers) have united. They do not follow the basic courtesies in politics. Wearing a fetti (scarf) on head, they are spreading hate. We respect the sadhus of Bharat Sevasram Sangha or Ramakrishna Mission. But not these people.'

“If you come across any rumour mongering in your area, in case someone tries to incite riots, inform the police,” the TMC supremo said.

“Whether it is Lok Sabha or the Rajya Sabha, our MPs have the best performance. They have worked with their heads held high even in this atmosphere of fear. Whenever our MPs have tried to speak out against the government, they start a CBI investigation against them,” Banerjee said.

She said,'Those who do not have any work, only give speeches. Their only work is to give bhashan.'

'They have completely ‘captured’ Doordarshan. They are misusing all the agencies. They are spending more money on PR than funding projects,' the chief minister alleged.

Ms Banerjee said,'From job security to national security, internal security to farmers’ security, unemployment to demonetisation – we witnessed a disaster in India for the last five years. When they go out of power, truth about their financial corruption will come to light. 'Jagai-Madhai', the ‘brothers in arms’, who came to power after riots, are running the government. ”

'No one had the gumption to protest their misdeeds, except us,' the TMC supremo said.

“We want poriborton in India. We want Modi-Amit Shah to be ousted. We had earlier said ‘Du hajar unish, BJP finish’. BJP hatao, Desh bachao,” the chief minister said.

'The government had intelligence input about Pulwama attack. Why were jawans not airlifted? Why were roads not sanitised?' Banerjee questioned.

'They want to do politics over the dead bodies of jawans. People will not be fooled. You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time,” the TMC supremo said.

The chief minister said,'A true leader takes everyone along. A true leader rises from the ranks through action.'

'Does he (Modi) do anything else apart from posing for the cameras?' she questioned.

“They might try to manipulate the EVMs. Our workers must be trained about VVPAT machines. They are dreaming of winning 23 seats in Bangla by tampering EVMs. We will show them,” Banerjee said.

“I have never seen such low-level politics in my life. This is politics of the absurd,” she said.

“We have to win 42 seats out of 42,” Banerjee said.

She said India’s cultural heritage, unity, federal structure, institutions, constitution, history – everything has been destroyed

The chief minister said,“Since 1995, I have been demanding electoral reforms. We want state funding of election. Small parties cannot match the funding of larger parties.”

Ms Banerjee said,'The economy of the country has become a disaster. There is an atmosphere of hate prevailing in the country. They are creating divisions between people. This has never happened before. They are using social media to spread fake news. They are using pictures of UP or some other place and claiming the incident happened here. Their entire politics rests on lies. They are trying to “create” an atmosphere of threat by holding bike rallies at midnight.'

“CPI(M)-Congress bhai bhai – we have seen that already. We are least bothered about them,” she said.

Ms Banerjee said in the Panchayat elections Jagai-Madhai-Bidaai (CPI(M)-Congress-BJP) had an understanding in many places.

“Despite the huge debt burden, we have extended the Swasthya Sathi scheme to 7.5 crore people. We have waived off khajna tax and mutation fees on agricultural land. We are paying the full premium of crop insurance scheme for the farmers. We have started a new Krishak Bandhu scheme. Farmers will receive Rs 5,000 annually for every acre of land,”she added.

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