‘Dangabaaz and dhandabaaz’: Mamata Banerjee’s response to PM Modi’s ‘tolabaaz’ jibe

Image Source : PTI Mamata Banerjee addressed a rally in Hooghly a few days after PM Modi’s rally there.
A few days after PM Modi hit out at Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress rule in West Bengal accusing the state authorities of rampant extortion, the Bengal chief minister on Wednesday responded in the identical vein. Launching a blistering assault on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Mamata Banerjee reiterated the problem of ‘outsider, insider’. 

“Every time you (BJP) say that Trinamool Congress is ‘Tolabaaj’ but I say you (BJP) are ‘dangabaaz and dhandabaaz’,”  Mamata Banerjee stated addressing a rally in Hooghly, the place PM Modi had held a public gathering on Monday.

“Bengal will rule Bengal. Gujarat will not rule Bengal. Modi will not rule Bengal. ‘Gundas’ (miscreants) will not rule Bengal,” the Trinamool Congress chief went on so as to add in an obvious reference to PM Modi and Amit Shah’s Gujarat background.  

During the Hooghly rally, India cricketer Manoj Tiwary joined the Trinamool Congress in presence of Mamata Banerjee.

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PM Modi had stated that West Bengal will not have the ability to progress if “tolabazi (extortion)” continues to persist. He stated the folks of the state have made up their thoughts for “poriborton (change)”. 

“Development in Bengal not possible as long as cut money culture, syndicate rule and “tolabazi” (extortion) persists,” he stated. 

The prime minister had additionally alleged that the financial advantages of schemes in West Bengal by no means reached the poor. 

“Centre transfers money directly into bank accounts of farmers & poor. But monetary benefits of schemes of Bengal Govt does not reach the poor without the consent of all the ‘tolabaaz’ of TMC. This is why TMC leaders are becoming richer & normal families are becoming poorer,” he had talking after inaugurating a number of initiatives. 

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