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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday claimed that the Election Commission of India has formulated a seven-phase polls to enable Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Cabinet colleagues to leverage state resources for a broad campaign Activity.

While party leader Mamata Banerjee was addressing a public meeting in support of Maldaha Uttar TMC candidate Prasun Banerjee at Gajol in Malda district, the former IPS officer and party supremo Mamata Banerjee said the polls have been scheduled from April 19 to June 1 so that Modi and his cabinet colleagues can He previously traveled across the country on a special plane to “overwhelm the opposition.”

“Previously, the elections usually ended in May, but this year, the elections were extended to June 1 so that Modi could visit various places on military aircraft, while we had to arrange our own transportation, including helicopters,” he said. Leaders book so we barely have space,” she claimed.

She added: “The hot weather has caused great inconvenience to people, but Modi is not disturbed as they (BJP leaders) are campaigning in the comfort of a VVIP environment with all the facilities at hand. Everything.”

Ms Banerjee claimed that while the Narendra Modi-led Union Council of Ministers was a caretaker cabinet after the elections were announced and the Election Commission ran the administrative machinery, the polling body “followed the line laid down by Modi and his party colleagues “”.

Ms Banerjee attacked the BJP and Congress MPs in West Bengal, claiming that despite being elected from the state in 2019, none of them supported the cause of the state, including the release of MGNREGA funds by the Center or the support of Prime Minister Awas ·Construction of houses for the poor under Awas Yojana.

“On the other hand, our (TMC) MPs were manhandled and arrested when they went to Delhi last November to demand the release of MGNREGA funds,” she said.

“But what have the Congress and BJP MPs done for the poor? What has the (Maldahar North) BJP MP Hargan Mumu done for the job card holders of the state?” she asked.

Ms Banerjee accused the CPI(M) and Congress of supporting the BJP in the state and urged people not to vote for any non-TMC candidate.

“I coined the name India Group. But India Group does not exist in Bangladesh. For us, it exists outside the country,” she said.

“Our MP Mahua Moitra was expelled from Parliament for exposing the misdeeds of the Modi government and its links with big business. TMC MPs are being targeted by this vindictive government,” she added .

Banerjee said that after the names of 1.9 million Bengalis were excluded from the NRC, TMC MPs including Mamata Bala Thakur and Derek O’ Brien, who was sent back from Guwahati airport while traveling to Assam, Banerjee claimed that her party always stood by the “atrocities committed by the BJP government”.

“While churches, mosques and other places of worship in Manipur were vandalized during ethnic violence and the BJP government in the state and the Center turned a blind eye, the TMC stood by the affected people,” he said.

“While we are building places of worship, they are destroying them. The BJP boasts about Ram temples, but how many temples have they actually built in the past few years? It was the TMC that built Durga temples, Lord Kali Temple and Jagannath Temple,” she claimed.

Ms Banerjee accused the BJP of conspiring to create unrest by spreading fake news and videos on social media.

She claimed that the polls aired on TV channels were “BJP-inspired” and claimed that the TMC would get a large number of seats in the polls.

Addressing another public rally in support of TMC candidate Shahnawaz Ali Raihan at Manichak in Maldaha Dakshin constituency, Ms Banerjee raised the issue of the Uniform Civil Code, accusing the BJP of “conspiring to impose a Uniform Civil Code by taking away people’s personal rights and freedoms” Code”.

“I would oppose the UCC’s enforcement of teeth and nails,” she said.

On the BJP’s target of winning more than 400 seats, Ms. Banerjee said, “They will not win even 200 seats. In most states in the south and north, their situation will be bleak.” A political party, she said One cannot rely solely on central forces to win the polls.

“We are not afraid of the CBI, the Rajya Sabha and the NIA. No matter how hard the BJP tries to exploit these institutions, it will not come back to power in Delhi,” she said.

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