Gujarat, Narendra Modi won't rule Bengal: Mamata Banerjee attacks BJP

Addressing a gathering at Dunlop Football Ground, where Modi held a rally barely a couple of days ago, Banerjee said, "Gujarat and Narendra Modi won’t rule Bengal but only Bengal will rule the state."

"Let the Prime Minister and his assistants speak for two more months and then we will see who are powerful enough," Banerjee added.

Banerjee's comment came at a time Trinamool Congress-turned BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari repeatedly urged people to "handover" the state to Modi by voting in favour of the saffron unit.

In a bid to paint the Prime Minister and his BJP as culturally "outsider", the Trinamool supremo said, "The Prime Minister used to speak in Bengali reading lines from papers while addressing crowds."

Accusing the BJP of political vendetta in the backdrop of the quizzing of her parliamentarian nephew Abhishek Banerjee's wife Rujira Naroola by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the 66-year old politician said, "They (BJP) are disrespecting our daughters while they are hobnobbing with corrupt people. The Prime Minister should answer where the demonetised money went. Why are they selling SAIL and Rail?."

"I challenge them to arrest 20 lakh Trinamool workers including me. I will fight back even after that," she added.

Almost turning the upcoming assembly elections as a fight between herself and the entire Opposition, Banerjee said, "In 2021, the game is on. On one side the BJP, CPI-M and Congress will be there and I will be on the other side. I will be the goalkeeper. Let me see how many goals they can score. Their shots will hit the bar posts."

At the India Today conclave very recently, Banerjee claimed her party will be voted back to power for the third time with not less than 221 seats, while the BJP is confident to win more than 200 seats in the upcoming polls, due to be held in the summer.