Opposition will unite to oust BJP from energy in 2024, says Mamata

By PTI

KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday stated she and her counterparts in neighbouring Bihar and Jharkhand will be a part of palms with a number of different opposition leaders to oust the BJP from energy within the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

Addressing a celebration programme right here, Banerjee, additionally the Trinamool Congress supremo, claimed that the BJP would face a rout as folks had been displeased with the saffron party-led Centre’s insurance policies.

“There is Nitish Kumar in Bihar, Akhilesh Yadav in Uttar Pradesh, Hemant Soren in Jharkhand. We will all unite and defeat the BJP in 2024. Opposition parties will join hands to defeat the BJP. All of us will be on one side and the BJP on the other. The BJP’s arrogance, its hope of bagging 300 seats will be its nemesis. ‘Khela Hobe’ in 2024,” she stated.

‘Khela Hobe’ (sport to be performed) had been the battle cry of the TMC through the Assembly polls final yr, during which the occasion defeated the BJP to storm again to energy for the third consecutive time period.

“The ground for ‘Khela Hobe’ in 2024 will be prepared in Bengal itself. The BJP will lose 100 seats in these five states I named. They should remember that during Rajiv Gandhi’s tenure, Congress had over 400 seats, yet they lost the next elections. BJP leaders’ assertion that it would bag 300 seats will also bite the dust,” she stated.

Banerjee insisted that the “arrest of Jharkhand MLAs with hordes of cash by the Bengal police recently” had stopped horse-trading within the neighbouring state and prevented the autumn of the Hemant Soren authorities.

Three Congress MLAs of Jharkhand had been arrested on July 30 after almost Rs 49 lakh in money was discovered within the automobile that was intercepted at Panchla in West Bengal’s Howrah district.

The Congress, part of the JMM-led authorities in Jharkhand, claimed that the BJP was making an attempt to topple the Soren authorities by providing Rs 10 crore every and ministerial berths to the MLAs.

“The BJP thinks they can threaten us with CBI and ED. The more they pursue such tricks, the more they will get closer to defeat in next year’s panchayat election and 2024 Lok Sabha polls,” she stated.

The CM slammed the opposition, particularly the BJP, and a piece of the media for allegedly unleashing a malicious marketing campaign in opposition to her and her occasion leaders following the arrest of senior leaders Partha Chatterjee and Anubrata Mondal by central businesses in numerous circumstances.

Meanwhile, rebuffing Banerjee’s claims, BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar stated the TMC supremo ought to cease “daydreaming”.

“We have seen TMC’s national overdrive in 2014 and 2019. It’s high time that the party learns its lessons,” he stated.

KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday stated she and her counterparts in neighbouring Bihar and Jharkhand will be a part of palms with a number of different opposition leaders to oust the BJP from energy within the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

Addressing a celebration programme right here, Banerjee, additionally the Trinamool Congress supremo, claimed that the BJP would face a rout as folks had been displeased with the saffron party-led Centre’s insurance policies.

“There is Nitish Kumar in Bihar, Akhilesh Yadav in Uttar Pradesh, Hemant Soren in Jharkhand. We will all unite and defeat the BJP in 2024. Opposition parties will join hands to defeat the BJP. All of us will be on one side and the BJP on the other. The BJP’s arrogance, its hope of bagging 300 seats will be its nemesis. ‘Khela Hobe’ in 2024,” she stated.

‘Khela Hobe’ (sport to be performed) had been the battle cry of the TMC through the Assembly polls final yr, during which the occasion defeated the BJP to storm again to energy for the third consecutive time period.

“The ground for ‘Khela Hobe’ in 2024 will be prepared in Bengal itself. The BJP will lose 100 seats in these five states I named. They should remember that during Rajiv Gandhi’s tenure, Congress had over 400 seats, yet they lost the next elections. BJP leaders’ assertion that it would bag 300 seats will also bite the dust,” she stated.

Banerjee insisted that the “arrest of Jharkhand MLAs with hordes of cash by the Bengal police recently” had stopped horse-trading within the neighbouring state and prevented the autumn of the Hemant Soren authorities.

Three Congress MLAs of Jharkhand had been arrested on July 30 after almost Rs 49 lakh in money was discovered within the automobile that was intercepted at Panchla in West Bengal’s Howrah district.

The Congress, part of the JMM-led authorities in Jharkhand, claimed that the BJP was making an attempt to topple the Soren authorities by providing Rs 10 crore every and ministerial berths to the MLAs.

“The BJP thinks they can threaten us with CBI and ED. The more they pursue such tricks, the more they will get closer to defeat in next year’s panchayat election and 2024 Lok Sabha polls,” she stated.

The CM slammed the opposition, particularly the BJP, and a piece of the media for allegedly unleashing a malicious marketing campaign in opposition to her and her occasion leaders following the arrest of senior leaders Partha Chatterjee and Anubrata Mondal by central businesses in numerous circumstances.

Meanwhile, rebuffing Banerjee’s claims, BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar stated the TMC supremo ought to cease “daydreaming”.

“We have seen TMC’s national overdrive in 2014 and 2019. It’s high time that the party learns its lessons,” he stated.