Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee criticized the BJP, CPI(M), and the Congress for teaming up in trying to bring down her government.

Calling the BJP a party of “Bhakshak” (predator) CPI(M) a “Rakshak” (facilitator of BJP) and Congress a “Takshak” (snake) Banerjee said that she would never let these parties to conspire and let the saffron outfit capture Bengal and make it an anarchic state like Gujarat.  She said, “Remember we will not let BJP make Bengal a Gujarat. We will not let you give rise to riots here.”

Stopping short of asking Prime Minister to resign from his post, the Chief Minister said that the BJP led government was tormenting the people from all sides and all walks of life adding that the farm laws were the last in the line of its oppressive legislations. She said that the government “should immediately repeal the triple laws or resign from power,” adding that “it had no right to remain in power after sacrificing the rights of the farmers.”

Reminding the people of her struggle at Singur and Nandigram and her 26-day hunger strike, Banerjee said, “I have not forgotten Singur, I have not forgotten Nandigram. I have full support for farmers.” She added that she fully supports the farmers’ causes.

The Trinamool Congress (TMC) has opposed strikes since coming to power nine years ago. Clarifying the adjustment in position, Banerjee said at a meeting here, “We have never supported bandhs since we came to power because the government cannot uphold strikes. As a chief minister, I cannot support a bandh. However, as a TMC leader, I uphold the interest of farmers. We are supporting the requests and appeals being made by farmers as they are genuine. I have not failed to remember Singur and, Nandigram.  I am promising full help to farmers.”

Asking the people of Bengal not to fall in the trap of the “outsiders”, Banerjee called the BJP a “party of outsiders” adding that she would “never allow the saffron camp of outsiders to take control of Bengal” and urged the people to resist any such attempt by the outsiders. In the TMC campaign, Mamata and her core team have kept the insider vs outsider as the main theme for pitching of the party in the upcoming state polls.

Taking a jibe at the leaders of her party who were in touch with the BJP she recently said that BJP was a “big identity card” showing which it was “breaking other parties.”  There were people who were blackmailing her ahead of the elections but she would never succumb to such blackmailing, she said in an apparent reference to the recent alienation of powerful party satrap Suvendu Adhikari and the disgruntled leader, Rajib Banerjee.

Incidentally neither Adhikari who recently resigned from his Cabinet post, nor his father and former Union Minister Sisir Adhikari and the younger brother Dibyendu, both TMC MPs, were to be seen in the Chief Minister’s function.