Kolkata, April 9 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders on Thursday launched a blistering attack on the Trinamool Congress-led state government and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, accusing the latter of attempting to “spread” illegal infiltrators in the country. The BJP also held the Trinamool accountable for developmental issues in the state.

The BJP leaders campaigned in different parts of the state for the upcoming two-phased Assembly elections, scheduled for April 23 and 29.

BJP MP Raju Bista told reporters, “Mamata Didi (Banerjee) wants to spread illegal infiltrators, including Rohingyas, all over the country but the people of West Bengal won’t allow that.”

He said that if such a statement is given by the Chief Minister of West Bengal that the Bengalis and the people of Bengal are being beaten up, “then it is our misfortune that we got such a Chief Minister”.

Bista alleged that Chief Minister Banerjee has made Bengal’s people “weak”.

“And the people of Bengal do not go out and get beaten up. It is an atmosphere created by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee,” he added.

Holding the Trinamool government accountable, BJP leader Rohan Gupta told IANS, “If a government (Trinamool Congress) was given such a huge majority mandate by the people of West Bengal for 10 years, it was the Trinamool government’s responsibility to work. But what has it done?”

He alleged that the West Bengal government does not even have a single issue to highlight.

“Why are they (Trinamool Congress) opposing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and speaking against the Constitution. They were in power, for how long could they oppose it?” Gupta asked.

“The public will show them a mirror this time. Trinamool does not have anything to say about what it has done for the people in the past 10 years of being in power in West Bengal. That is why they oppose everything,” the BJP leader asserted.

Moreover, he said that this time Trinamool will have to “pay a price for taking West Bengal 10 years back”.

Meanwhile, BJP candidate from Chanditala Assembly constituency, Debashish Mukherjee, flagged flooding issues in Dankuni.

Taking a jibe at the ruling party in West Bengal, he told IANS, “They (Trinamool Congress) worked so much for development in the past 15 years that even utensils from people’s houses are floating (in the flood water), that, too, during the summer season. The monsoon is yet to come.”

“The drainage system here needs to be reconstructed which they (Trinamool) have not been able to. They basically don’t know how to work,” he added.

–IANS

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