Kolkata: Currently visiting parts of West Bengal, BJP chief Amit Shah on Thursday said that his party will win 22 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal in the 2019 parliamentary polls.
He also slammed state Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for unleashing violence on her political rivals, stating that the people who are used to listening Rabindra Sangeet are now hearing the noise of bombs.
Addressing a rally in Purulia, the BJP chief said sacrifice of his party workers will not go in vain and that it will win 22 of the state’s 42 Lok Sabha seats in the 2019 parliamentary polls.
“Violence has never been the culture of Bengal. This is the state of great personalities like Gurudev Rabindra Nath Tagore, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhya among others. But you can see what Mamata has done to the state,” Amit Shah said.
He added if people of West Bengal “want to stop the illegal immigration from Bangladesh, they have to dethrone the Mamata-led TMC government.”
Earlier in the day, Amit Shah visited the families of the BJP workers who were allegedly killed in the political violence.
“More than 20 of our party workers were killed in the state in recent past. Their sacrifice will not go waste. I challenge Mamata Banerjee that we will dethrone you in coming days,” he said.
Ridiculing Mamata’s efforts to form a grand alliance against the Modi government, Shah said that the TMC is losing political ground in the state.
“We have no objection to her move to cobble up an alliance of opposition parties, but before doing that she should be worried that the political ground in Bengal is slipping out of her hands,” he said.
“The TMC had unleashed terror in the last panchayat polls but despite so much of violence it could not stop the BJP from winning so many seats,” he said, adding 20 BJP workers were killed during the panchayat elections.
