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This is not time for revenge in Bengal but change: Modi targets Mamata-Avishek at Diamond Harbour rally

| @indiablooms | May 15, 2019, at 06:49 pm

Diamond Harbour, West Bengal: Attacking West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew Avishek Banerjee vehemently at a rally in Diamond Harbour in West Bengal on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the reign of terror and cries of revenge on the BJP would soon be answered with change in power by the state's people.

Attacking Mamata Banerjee as well as her nephew Avishek Banerjee, on whose constituency the rally was held by Modi, the PM said the BJP will keep fighting for Bengal and ensure that the border of Bengal get modern fencing and infiltration is dealt with.

"In Mamata Banerjee's Bengal, only the infiltrators are living without fear," he said.

Attacking both the CM and Avishek Banerjee on corruption, he said tolabazzi (extortion) is rampant in Bengal. 

Urging the people to vote for BJP, Modi hollered: "Chup chap, kamal chap" (Silently stamp on the lotus symbol). 

"The expiry date of Didi's goondaism has passed, Modi said, attacking Mamata drawing from her words with the Bengal CM terming Modi as expiry PM again and again.

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