BJP targeting me, Abhishek, we are not safe: Mamata Banerjee

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday alleged that the BJP is targeting her and her nephew and TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee and they do not feel safe Her allegation came a day after the Leader of Opposition in the assembly Suvendu Adhikari said that there would be a ldquobig explosion on Monday which will shake the TMC and its top brassrdquoldquoThe BJP is targeting me and Abhishek we are not safe but we are also not afraid of the saffron partyrsquos conspiracy We urge everyone to be on guard against a conspiracy against TMC leaders and the people of West Bengalrdquo she said while addressing an election rally in Kumarganj in Balurghat Lok Sabha seat in favour of party candidate and state minister Biplab MitraResponding to Adhikarirsquos remark the TMC supremo said ldquoThere is a traitor who joined the BJP to protect his family and illgotten wealth Let me tell him his threat to trigger a chocolate bomb explosion is treated with contempt by usrdquo ldquoWe will counter him by bursting firecrackers For us firecrackers are unravelling discrepancies in PM Care Fund and lsquojumlarsquo of crediting R15 lakh in every citizenrsquos bank account He only peddles falsehoodrdquo she saidlsquoCountry punishing Congress for its sinsrsquoPrime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the country is punishing the Congress for its ldquosinsrdquo and the party that had once won 400 seats is unable to contest 300 seats in this Lok Sabha election ldquoIn the first phase of voting half of Rajasthan has punished Congress Rajasthan which is full of patriotism knows that Congress can never make India strongrdquo Modi said at an election rally in Jalore district He said that the country does not want the conditions that existed before 2014 to returnlsquoDemocracy will end if BJP come backrsquoCongress president Mallikarjun Kharge claimed that if ldquoModiShah sarkarrdquo comes back to power then the democracy will end in the country Targeting PM Modi and Amit Shah Kharge further claimed that they will also scrap the Constitution made by Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar ldquoIf you want to keep alive the Constitution the right to vote for women labourers and farmers then vote for the Congress and its lsquopanjarsquo hand symbolrdquo Kharge saidRahul to miss INDIA bloc rally in RanchiCongress leader Rahul Gandhi who was set to participate in the INDIA bloc rally in Ranchi will not be able to attend as he took ill suddenly and is unable to leave New Delhi for the present Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge will be attending the Ranchi rally party leader Jairam Ramesh said ldquoShri Rahul Gandhi was all set to campaign today in Satna and Ranchi where the INDIA rally is being held He took ill suddenly and is unable to leave New Delhi for the presentrdquo Ramesh the Congress general secretary incharge communications saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever