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Kolkata, Nov 1 (IANS) Trinamool Congress general secretary and party Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee on Saturday launched a scathing attack on Jagannath Sarkar, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Lok Sabha member from Ranaghat constituency in West Bengal’s Nadia district, over his recent comments that no barbed fence will be erected on the India-Bangladesh borders if the BJP comes to power in the state after the 2026 assembly elections.
Banerjee, in a social media post, claimed that the government’s comments prove that the hypocrisy of the BJP has fallen to new depths.
According to the Trinamool Congress general secretary, the government’s public announcement that if the BJP comes to power in West Bengal, there will be no border between India and Bangladesh and the two countries will be reunited, contradicts the party’s allegations against the West Bengal government of not cooperating in protecting the border.
“On the other hand, the same BJP government, including @HMOIndia, Amit Shah, keeps accusing the West Bengal government of not giving land for ‘defense’, the same boundaries their own MPs want to erase!” Banerjee said in the X post.
The Trinamool Congress general secretary had also claimed that if the BJP truly believes in national integrity, the party should immediately suspend the government.
Banerjee said, “His (BJP’s) silence will only expose that he spoke with the full consent of the party’s top leadership. This is not nationalism – this is deception. Fooling and insulting the people of West Bengal in the name of “SIR” has become the BJP’s trademark politics – a dangerous mix of hypocrisy and betrayal! Look at his own words and decide who is fooling Bengal.”
A video went viral in which Sarkar was making this controversial comment at a public meeting earlier this week.
“We make this solemn promise. If we win the elections this time, there will be no thorny fence separating us from Bangladesh. The two countries will be united once again.”
–IANS
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