Slamming at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said that the second COVID-19 wave in the country and its management is a ''Modi-made disaster''.
While addressing an election rally at Balurghat in Dakshin Dinajpur district, where the TMC chief asserted that West Bengal will be run only by a ''Bengal engine government'' and not by ''Modi's double-engine''.
''The second COVID wave is more intense. I would say this is a Modi-made disaster. There are no injections or oxygen. Vaccines and medicines are being shipped abroad even as there is a scarcity of these items in the country,'' she told the rally. She claimed that this election is a fight to save West Bengal and ''protect the honour of the Bengali mother''.
''Our state will be run by a Bengal engine government and not by Modi's double-engine government. We will not allow Gujarat to capture our state or run it from Delhi. Bengal will rule Bengal,'' she said. The term ''double-engine government'' often used by BJP leaders denotes the government of the same party at the Centre and the state.
The TMC chief also urged people not to vote for Left- Congress-ISF alliance candidates claiming that voting for them will strengthen the BJP's hand. Banerjee said that the Centre had said seven months ago that the pandemic has subsided.
Banerjee claimed that the BJP is saying different things at different places on the Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA and the National Register of Citizens (NRC).
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Assembly Polls for West Bengal Sixth phase begins on April 22