Bengal lagging behind under Mamata Banerjee, says JP Nadda; Trinamool reacts
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief JP Nadda, who is on a 2-day West Bengal visit, lashed out at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the issues of corruption.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president JP Nadda on Sunday continued his attack on Trinamool supremo Mamata Banerjee and said that West Bengal, which was once cradle of the country's renaissance, is now lagging behind because of TMC misrule.
Taking a critical stance on Mamata Banerjee's governance, Nadda accused her administration of establishing a "jungle raj" or a state of lawlessness in West Bengal. He urged Banerjee to refrain from portraying herself as a "champion of democracy" on a national level while, in his view, suppressing democratic values within the state.
"West Bengal was once the cradle of the renaissance of the entire nation. It was Bengal which showed the path to the entire nation. But in the last few decades, Bengal has been lagging behind. After years of misrule by the Left regime and then by the TMC, Bengal now tops the charts in crime against women, corruption, and unemployment," Nadda said during a party event in Kolkata.
"Prime Minister Narendra Modi is taking the country forward and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is taking the state backwards. The misrule of the TMC has led to Bengal lagging by several years," he said.
"Yesterday Mamata ji wanted proof of corruption in Bengal. Tell me where is her minister, Parth Chatterjee? Where are Anuvrata and his daughter? What about Sarada, coal and the teacher recruitment scam? What else can I prove, Didi? Amphan corruption, housing corruption did not happen in Bengal?," the senior BJP leader questioned.
Responding to Nadda's assertion that West Bengal was falling behind, the Trinamool Congress defended its position by asserting that the Mamata Banerjee-led government had ushered in a new era of development for the state.
"While @JPNadda raises the bogey of dynastic politics against opposition parties, @BJP4India stands as a monument to hypocrisy, nurturing a crop of dynastic leaders in its own backyard," the AITC said in a post on X, earlier Twitter.
"PM @narendramodi's cabinet has 15 ministers who are either product of dynastic politics or are building their own. About 12% of BJP's 395 parliamentarians (Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha included) are dynasts. It's about time that this facade of righteousness is shattered!" it further said.
