As the West Bengal Assembly election 2021 dates near, all parties are eyeing to capture power in the state. Leaders cut across party lines are at their fiery best. On Tuesday, addressing a public rally at Behrampore in Murshidabad district, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee branded the BJP as an ‘outsider party’. She said that “BJP is not Bengal party, it’s a party from Gujarat”.
Mamata Banerjee also added that “people of Bengal will rule the State”.
Compares party defectors to Mir Jafar
Comparing herself to a Royal Bengal Tiger, Mamata Banerjee said that she is not a weak person who can be intimidated by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Addressing a rally in Murshidabad’s Baharampur, the capital of Nawab Siraj-ud-Daullah’s empire, CM Mamata Banerjee also compared those who left the TMC to join the saffron party to Mir Jafar, a commander of his army who betrayed him in the Battle of Plassey against the British in 1757.
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