Raju Banerjee had apparently ridiculed the Trinamool Congress supremo for resorting to “unfair means” by campaigning in a wheelchair in the last assembly election.
BJP leader Raju Banerjee courted controversy by saying to the Chief Minister of West Bengal on Saturday, November 27, 2021 Mamata Banerjee can campaign Fake injury after failing to neutrally counter the zealous challenge of the saffron camp while campaigning in a stretcher for the upcoming municipal elections in the state.
The senior BJP leader alleged at a public meeting in the city that the Trinamool Congress supremo had resorted to “inappropriate methods” by campaigning. Wheelchair in the last assembly election By pretending to hurt her leg when she was unable to contest the saffron party politically.
He said, “When you failed to fight the BJP politically, you (Banerjee) confined yourself in a wheelchair. You resorted to lies to take on the BJP in the campaign for the state assembly elections. You are the same. Will face the fiercely militant BJP which believes in fighting against you in a furious, democratic and peaceful manner during the upcoming civic elections and you will again resort to lies.
“But if you lie on a stretcher this time to earn the sympathy of voters, rest assured that you will not get votes for your candidates on the basis of sympathy,” Banerjee said. Madan Mitra had said in the April-May assembly elections in Kamarhati.
Reacting strongly to Mr Banerjee’s comments, TMC leader Baiswanor Chatterjee told reporters, “This is nothing but a threat by an irresponsible BJP leader. Such comments reveal the undemocratic, violent mindset of the BJP.” Everyone knows how Mamata Banerjee was “physically targeted” and seriously injured during the first phase of the assembly election campaign in Nandigram. Chatterjee said that in the later phases he was forced to continue campaigning on a wheel chair putting his health at risk.
The TMC supremo had claimed that he had injured his leg while campaigning in Nandigram in March, where he had taken his former mentor Suvendu Adhikari and lost by a narrow margin. He later won a by-election in Bhabnipur, his home constituency in Kolkata, within a stipulated six-month period to retain his chief ministership.
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