West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee expressed fears that the saffron party is targeting her and her nephew and party candidate Abhishek Banerjee and claimed that they “are not safe”.
Her remarks came a day after Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly Suvendu Adhikari said that there would be a “big explosion on Monday which will shake the TMC and its top brass”.
“The BJP is targeting me and Abhishek, we are not safe, but we are also not afraid of the saffron party’s conspiracy. We urge everyone to be on guard against a conspiracy against TMC leaders and the people of West Bengal,” she claimed while addressing an election rally in Kumarganj in Balurghat Lok Sabha seat in favour of party candidate and state minister Biplab Mitra.
Hitting back at Adhikari, who was once a TMC leader, the party chief termed him a “traitor” and said, “There is a traitor who joined the BJP to protect his family and ill-gotten wealth. Let me tell him, his threat to trigger a chocolate bomb explosion is treated with contempt by us”.
“We will counter him by bursting firecrackers. For us firecrackers are unravelling discrepancies in PM Care Fund and ‘jumla’ of crediting Rs 15 lakh in every citizen’s bank account. He only peddles falsehood,” she said.
Accusing the Narendra Modi government of painting independent institutions such as Doordarshan in saffron hues, Mamata said that the BJP “appropriating the colour” was an insult to sacrifices made by monks and spiritual leaders of the country for ages.