This story is from November 26, 2020

Will win polls even if locked up in jail, says Mamata at Bankura rally

Will win polls even if locked up in jail, says Mamata at Bankura rally
Bankura: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday launched a high-pitch campaign against BJP for the 2021 assembly polls from Bankura, a district where her party had trailed in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, saying she would win the election even if she was locked up in jail.
She accused BJP of trying to poach her party workers with a bagful of money.
The CM kicked off the electoral campaign with a public rally at Bankura’s Sumukpahari with an appeal to Adivasis, Dalits and minorities to stay by her side against the BJP-Congress-CPM trio, which she called the jagai-madhai-gadai combine.

Calling BJP the “biggest curse for the country” that has been using central agencies against opposition leaders to make them “surrender” to the party’s cause, Banerjee dared the saffron party to arrest her. “There is no use browbeating me. I am not afraid of BJP or its agencies. If they have the guts, they can arrest me and put me behind bars. I will fight elections from jail and ensure Trinamool’s victory,” she said, pointing to the impressive performance of RJD in Bihar even though its leader Lalu Prasad has been languishing in jail.
Banerjee complained that BJP was approaching Trinamool MLAs and offering them money to switch sides. “They are saying: we will give you Rs 2 crore, come to our fold. They are telling an MLA: we will give you Rs 15 lakh now and Rs 15 lakh after. But the game is not easy,” the CM said.
She refused to recognize BJP as a political party. “BJP is not a political party; it is a garbage of lies,” Banerjee said while hitting out at Union home minister Amit Shah for eating lunch with an Adivasi family with food “cooked in a five-star hotel”.

At the same time, Banerjee sent out a stern signal to “fence sitters” in Trinamool. “There are some who are lining up with BJP in case it comes to power. There is no such chance. I am keeping a tab on who is getting in touch with whom. I ask you to keep a watch on such leaders who are going out in a car late at night,” she said.
Banerjee urged people of Bankura to not rely on the Dilli ka laddoo, pointing to the five BJP national leaders sent to Bengal. “These outsiders are here to fool you all. Trinamool won’t bring harm to you. They were not by your side when the super cyclone hit the state,” she said.
“Do you remember the incidents at Joyrambati, Kamarpukur, Sihar during the Left rule?” Banerjee continued. “I used to frequent these places when people left their homes. Now peace has returned to these places,” she said, reading out a list of facilities, from hospital to university, set up in the area during the Trinamool regime.
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