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Only guarantee in this LS poll is BJP not returning to power: Mamata Banerjee
Updated On: 15 May, 2024 03:19 PM IST | Kalyani/ Sreerampore | PTI
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Asserting that the INDIA bloc would form the next government at the Centre by winning over 300 Lok Sabha seats, TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday claimed that the "only guarantee is that BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not get a third term at the Centre". Addressing back-to-back rallies at Kalyani and Sreerampore, the West Bengal chief minister, without naming, took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over offering prayers at the Dashashwamedh Ghat on the banks of the Ganga before filing his nomination from the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency, by stating that even a thousand dips in the river won`t absolve their perceived wrongdoings. While accusing the BJP of spreading falsehoods on the Sandeshkhali issue and tarnishing the image of women in the state, Banerjee alleged that "BJP is making last-ditch efforts to win elections by manipulating EVMs". "The only guarantee in the Lok Sabha polls is that BJP and Modi are not returning to power. The INDIA bloc would secure between 295 and 315 seats while the BJP would be restricted to a maximum of 200," she said. Drawing a parallel to the 2004 elections, where the BJP`s "India Shining" campaign failed, Banerjee indicated a similar fate for the BJP this time.
"In 2004, Atal Bihari Vajpayee gave the slogan INDIA SHINING but Manmohan Singh became the Prime Minister. I have some breaking news this time too ¿ the winds are changing and the `420 guarantees` will be changed. Some people are not able to say this out of fear," she said. Without naming anyone, she emphasised that political sins are not washed away with symbolic actions, likening them to tides in the Ganga. "Sometimes, when we take a dip in the Ganga or any river, the high tide brings in filth and dirt whereas the low tide washes it away. Politics is the same. People can take a dip in the Ganga not once but 1,000 times but that won`t wash away their sins. During the Covid crisis, a lot of people died in Uttar Pradesh. "Not all of them were cremated. The bodies were immersed in the Holy Ganga, thereby polluting the river. This was caught after a lot of bodies floated down to Malda," she said. Banerjee alleged that the BJP, in an attempt to defeat her party`s Krishnanagar candidate Mahua Moitra, where elections were held in the fourth phase, tried to tamper with the EVMs. "There is no limit to their schemes.
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