"Genocide Happened In...": Mamata Banerjee's All-Out Attack On BJP
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The dharna has also seen Mamata Banerjee change tack for the 2024 general election.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today ripped into the BJP, referring to the 2002 Gujarat riots and accusing the party of behaving like a "feudal landlord" sending critics to jail.
"They say there is genocide in Bengal. Do you understand the meaning of genocide? It happened in Godhra. It happened with Bilkis and it happened with NRC/CAA. What happened in Delhi?" Mamata Banerjee said from the stage of her two-day dharna in Kolkata.
She also slammed what she called the targeting of opposition parties through probe agencies. "BJP is behaving like a feudal landlord. If someone says something against BJP, they send them to jail. If someone says something against the BJP, they throw them out of the house. If someone says something against the BJP, they send ED and CBI after them. What an honest party they are. Not only in India, even BBC is saying it. We are with the country. We are not inclined to listen to anything against it," the Trinamool chief said.
Over the course of her two-day dharna ahead of the panchayat polls in the state, Ms Banerjee has doubled down on her allegations that the BJP is withholding funds to Bengal and misusing central agencies.
