West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee while addressing the rally in Hooghly ,She launched a fierce attack on the BJP over a CBI probe involving her nephew Abhishek Banerjee’s wife and targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi using terms like “Dangabaaz (rioter)” and demon. Speaking from the same spot where PM Modi had campaigned two days ago for the approaching Bengal election, the Chief Minister also challenged the BJP to “arrest” 20 lakh Trinamool Congress workers in the state, including herself.
“PM Narendra Modi is the biggest dangabaaz in the country,” Mamata Banerjee said, referring to the “tolabaaz” or “extortionist” taunt that the BJP uses for Trinamool leaders. Addressing a Trinamool Congress rally at Hooghly ahead of state assembly election three months away.
“The country is being ruled by a doitya and a danab (Bengali for demons). They will try to break our spine. They will infiltrate. They will grab Bengal. What do you want? Bengal to stay Bengal or whatever the BJP makes of it? Bengal will control Gujarat. Gujarat will not control Bengal,” Mamata Banerjee added .
“I will be the goalkeeper in the assembly polls and BJP will not be able to score a single goal.”
“You can kill me, you can thrash me. But can you disrespect a woman? The bahu (daughter-in-law) of my house? And call her coal thief,” the Chief Minister said .
“You are calling our mothers and daughters coal thieves? You are hardly spotless. We know everything but I won’t say anything as it is beneath me.”
At the rally, several celebrities, including actors like Sayoni Ghosh ,June Maliya,Monali Dey ,Kanchan Mallick,Film Directors Raj Chakrabarty,Sudeshna Roy cricketer Manoj Tiwari, and Footballer Samik Dey joined the Trinamool Congress and raised the slogan “Khela Hobey (Game On)” adopted by Bengal’s ruling party, challenged aggressively by the BJP this time.
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