Battle For Bengal
'BJP's Bengal CM will be from the soil': Amit Shah countering Trinamool's 'outsiders' attack
Kolkata/IBNS: At a time the ruling Trinamool Congress is labeling the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as an "outsider" trying to conquer West Bengal, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said the Chief Minister from his saffron party, if voted to power, will be from the state.
"Mamata Banerjee (current CM of West Bengal) has been from a national party, Congress. What she used to say when Indira Gandhi, Pranab Mukherjee visited the state? She has a memory loss over the approach of a national party," Shah said in Bolpur.
"Can't Mamata Banerjee see a line of BJP leaders from the state? No one from Delhi will have to come to battle Mamata Banerjee. The leaders from the state will only fight her and our Chief Minister will also be from the soil," he added.
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However, Shah refused to co-relate his statement with the joining of former Trinamool heavyweight leader Suvendu Adhikari in the party.
Though Lok Sabha MP Dilip Ghosh-led BJP in the state is set to fight the elections, no CM has been projected yet by the saffron party amid rumours of importing a former cricketer for the top job.
Amit Shah during roadshow in Bolpur (Image Credit: BJP)
On the law and order situation in the state in the backdrop of the attack on BJP president Jagat Prakash Nadda's convoy earlier this month, the Home Minister said, "The political violence is at its peak in the state and over 300 BJP workers have been killed."
On the second day of his West Bengal visit, Shah visited Visva Bharati University, ate lunch at a folk singer's house and addressed a massive roadshow in Bolpur, which is the stronghold of the ruling Trinamool.
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