New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Monday, “If we unite, the BJP will lose the 2024 elections.” He said that only the judiciary can “save the nation”.
The chief minister said Banerjee accused the BJP of “systematically” targeting Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLAs, while no action was taken against wrongdoers in the BJP.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday arrested party MLA Jiban Krishna Saha in connection with the West Bengal teacher recruitment scam.
It is alleged that Saha extorted money from candidates in the recruitment process of the first West Bengal State Level Selection Test (SLST) 2016 for classes 9 and 10 by promising them jobs as teachers in the education department .
However, the Supreme Court on Monday brought a wave of happiness for the TMC stopped The Calcutta High Court’s April 13 order sought a CBI and Enforcement Directorate (ED) probe into Abhishek Banerjee in the recruitment scam.
Banerjee also demanded the resignation of Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday for saying this at a recent rally his government will fall prematurely.
Banerjee said, “Instead of protecting India, Home Minister Amit Shah is conspiring to topple my government.”
Inaugurating a party office in Birbhum last Friday, Shah said that if the BJP gets 35 seats in the state, Mamata’s government will not survive beyond the 2025 assembly elections.
Reiterating her stand, Banerjee said, “Whenever elections are round the corner, the BJP makes comments that polarize communities.”
He also criticized the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh after the killing of gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf on Saturday night. “Encounters have become a normal thing for the people of Uttar Pradesh. The people of UP should oppose these encounters. If something happens in West Bengal, they (BJP) send central agencies. BJP is double engine… double standard.
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