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Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday called BJP, the “most corrupt party”, and claimed that it would not be able to win 200 seats in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
“The BJP will not win the 2024 elections. They had claimed ‘200 paar’ in Bengal. In the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, they won’t even win 200 seats. Will they use ED, CBI, BSF, CRPF and other agencies to manipulate the elections? We don’t even know what is going on with the EVMs,” the TMC chief said as she urged mediapersons to cross-check with her before publishing “fake news”.
Referring to TMC legislators’ arrest by central agencies in cases of corruption, the CM alleged that ED and CBI are being used to threaten her government. “Four of my MLAs have been arrested by these agencies just so that our MLA count can be reduced. Money is being given to these agencies… We know everything that is going around in West Bengal. A team has come, which has taken BSF and CRPF officials to dinners to conspire against our government,” she alleged.
“To avoid answering questions, they create encounters. In the Pulwama attack, the former Governor made some startling remarks… Why is the government silent on this?” she added.
On the question of Opposition unity, she said, “The Opposition parties are together. We believe that silence is golden, hence we are all quiet now.”