Mamata calls for united fight against BJP

Kolkata, Jun.26 (HS): Chief minister Mamata Banerjee today gave a clarion call to all political parties to unitedly fight against BJP both at the state and the national level to oust them from power and sought the cooperation from both Congress and the Left Parties to help her achieve the goal.

Addressing members of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly while replying to the Governor’s address here today, the Chief minister blamed BJP on all fronts and alleged that they were out to destroy the country and its national fabric with its ‘communal  and biased policies’.

‘The nation has been facing its greatest danger of all times and it was the right time that we all fight against it unitedly instead of protesting  individually’, she said amid cheers from her party legislators.

Shifting her usual stands of criticizing all other parties, she even stated that she no longer believed that  either Congress or CPI-M led Left Front were out to destroy the country by any means and claimed that  ‘on the contrary BJP has been making every effort to allegedly spread religious fanaticism and divide the India on communal ground’.

But interrupting her speech when Congress Chief whip Manoj Chakraborty wanted to say something, he was not permitted by Speaker Biman Banerjee, while the Chief minister wondered about Chakraborty’s protest and said ‘why you are opposing when I am saying all good things about your party’.

Referring to the recent large scale exodus of many Trinamool Congress legislators, Panchayat leaders, Councillors and even party workers to BJP since the declaration of Lok Sabha elections results, the Chief minister who is also the supreme leader of TMC said these were all pre fixed and had nothing to do with the prospect of her party.

‘BJP  is a party of Jamindars and prosperous people’, she reiterated her appeal to all other opposition parties to get united to fight for removing BJP from power.

At this juncture she also urged Congress leader Abdul Mannan and CPI-M Chief Whip Sujan Chakraborty to consider her appeal with all seriousness and with top most priortiy  as ‘we have decided to uproot BJP from the state by all means.’

‘By wining only a few(18) Lok Sabha seats from the state they have been thinking of winning the mandate of the people of the entire state’, she said and once again came down heavily on the largest opposition party.

Earlier, during his speech the CPI-M Chief Whip ridiculed TMC for loosing one after another Panchayat bodies in rural Bengal to BJP since last month and claimed that it had now become impossible for the ruling TMC to prevent the slide. But at the same he also made it clear that every member of the house before changing his allegiance to another party must also quit from the party which gave him or her the opportunity to be a member of this August House.

Among others Manoj Chakraborty and Abdul Mannan of Congress also spoke on the Governor’s address.