“Nitish ji, Akhilesh and Hemant…we are together. Politics is a battlefield. We have fought for 34 years,” Mamata announced at the Trinamool’s preparatory meeting for the 2023 rural elections.
“BJP is proud of its 275-300 seats. But (we must remember this) Rajiv Gandhi There were 400 Lok Sabha seats before losing the next general election (in 1989)… ‘Mann Ki Baat’ will become ‘Mann Ki Baat’, he once said without naming the PM Narendra Modi,
Much of the chief minister’s speeches pitched the BJP’s alleged use of central agencies to go against the Trinamool’s declared policy of focusing on job creation. “We are not BJP agencies, we want jobs.
Referring to the CBI probing cases involving the Enforcement Directorate and at least three prominent names of Trinamool – Arrested former minister Partha Chatterjee, state law minister Molloy Components And Birbhum’s strongman Anubrata Mandal – Mamta said, “Never bow down. They can arrest whomever they want, we don’t care… These efforts of Enforcement Directorate, CBI and IT will get a befitting reply in public court. First. More often than not, the chief minister stood up for Mondal, something he had not done even after Parth’s arrest in a cash-for-job case.