As Mamata Banerjee hates on Gujaratis, this is how WB misplaced to Gujarat

On Sunday (April 4), West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee stirred a brand new controversy by selling regionalism and sectarianism forward of the third part of polling within the State.
In a blatant show of hatred in opposition to Gujaratis, she alleged, “Gujaratis are trying to capture Bengal by bringing goons from UP and Bihar.” Mamata Banerjee additionally vowed to not let her State flip into Gujarat. The West Bengal CM emphasised, “We will not allow Bengal to become like Gujarat.” She made the remarks throughout an election rally within the Howrah district.
Gujaratis try to seize Bengal by bringing goons from UP and Bihar. We won’t enable Bengal to turn into like Gujarat. BJP tries to create communal disturbance: West Bengal CM & TMC chief Mamata Banerjee in Howrah pic.twitter.com/nd8TfiYaS3— ANI (@ANI) April 4, 2021
Rahul Gandhi peddled hatred in opposition to Gujaratis
Ahead of the State Legislative elections in Assam, Congress scion Rahul Gandhi additionally focused the Gujarati neighborhood within the hope to show round his occasion’s political fortunes. On February 14 this 12 months, he introduced that he would take cash from Gujarat tea merchants and hand it over to the tea backyard staff in Assam.
Letting his hate for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, each Gujaratis, spill on to the individuals of Gujarat, Rahul Gandhi claimed that Assam tea staff receives a commission Rs 167 per day wage whereas ‘traders in Gujarat’ get tea gardens. He didn’t give any proof to again his claims. He ‘promised’ that ought to Congress come to energy in Assam, the employees will get Rs 365 per day wage. “Where will the money come from? It will come from Gujarat’s traders”, he claimed.
Textile Minister Smriti Irani dared Rahul Gandhi to take cash from the small tea merchants in Gujarat. Smriti Irani additional emphasised, “I want to challenge Rahul Gandhi to try Gujarat if he has guts. I also challenge him to contest polls from Gujarat. That will clear all his misconceptions.” She referred to as out Rahul Gandhi’s hatred for Gujaratis as he and his occasion had earlier opposed the development of the Statue of Unity.
How did Bengal lose to Gujarat in 2008?
While Mamata Banerjee has vowed to not let West Bengal flip into Gujarat, the previous had misplaced to the latter within the notorious Tata Nano Singur controversy in 2008. Following widespread protest, the Tata Nano plant was moved out of Singur to Gujarat’s Sanand.
In 2006-07, there was huge protest in opposition to land acquisition for the Tata Manufacturing plant, which escalated into violence and bloodshed when police forces below the Left Front authorities opened hearth on the protesters. Mamata Banerjee, as the first opposition then, led the cost in opposition to the identical.
Years later, nonetheless, locals who took half within the protests, expressed remorse relating to the identical. One of them stated, “We got nothing out of the agitation. We were used and later dumped to fend for ourselves by the political parties to serve their own purposes. No industries came up in the region, nor the land which was returned to us in 2016 is cultivable. We are living in extreme poverty.”
The widespread sentiment is that in the event that they got an opportunity to ‘atone’ for his or her mistake, they positively would.