Bengal: Mamata asks voters not to vote for INDIA allies Congress and CPI(M)
Mamata claimed that she had made the INDIA alliance in Bengal but now she’s asking voters not to waste their vote on Congress
In a dramatic move, the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who claims to be one of the architects of the INDIA alliance, has now declared that the INDIA bloc no longer exists in the state since the Congress and CPI(M) have 'joined hands with the BJP'.
The fiery Trinamool Congress chief went on to even urge people not to vote for INDIA allies Congress and the CPI (M). "Don't cast your vote in favour of the Congress and the CPI (M) if you want to defeat the BJP," she stressed.
Mamata claimed that she had made the INDIA alliance in Bengal but now she’s asking voters not to waste their vote on Congress.
No INDIA alliance in Bengal
Addressing a poll campaign rally in Murshidabad, she made it clear that the INDIA alliance is not functioning in West Bengal. Admitting that she had played a key role in the formation of the Opposition alliance INDIA, and that the name was also given by her, she accused the CPI (M) and Congress of working for the BJP in West Bengal.
In January itself, with the TMC dragging its feet on clinching a seat-sharing agreement with the Congress, Banerjee had finally said that her party is going to contest the Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal on thir own. She hit out at the BJP for inciting violence during Ram Navami celebrations in the state, claiming that the violence in the Murshidabad district was "pre-planned".
On the other hand, the BJP slammed the Bengal CM saying she should be held responsible for not protecting Bengali Hindus during the violence that happened in the Ram Navami celebrations in Murshidabad district.