Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in Bangladesh for “vote marketing” and his go to had violated the mannequin code of conduct (MCC) in power for the West Bengal Assembly polls. She mentioned she would quickly complain to the Election Commission (EC).
Addressing a rally at Kharagpur in Paschim Medinipur, she mentioned, “They (BJP) used to say that I have brought people from Bangladesh and encouraged infiltration. But he went to Bangladesh for vote marketing… The election is underway in our state and he… delivered a lecture on Bengal. It is a total violation of MCC.”
On a two-day tour to the neighbouring nation, Modi on Saturday supplied prayers at a temple, the birthplace of Matua neighborhood’s non secular guru Harichand Thakur, at Orakandi in Bangladesh’s Gopalganj district.
Between 2011 and 2016, Matuas, who hint their ancestry to Bangladesh, rallied behind the TMC. However, within the 2019 Lok Sabha election, the neighborhood in North 24 Parganas and Nadia shifted to the BJP. According to consultants, Matuas have direct or oblique affect in a minimum of 70 Assembly seats in West Bengal. In its manifesto, the BJP has promised to implement the Citizenship Amendment Act.
Citing the instance of Bangladeshi actor Ghazi Abdul Noor who was served a “Leave India” discover for campaigning for the TMC within the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Banerjee requested if Modi’s visa needs to be cancelled too.
“In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, when a Bangladeshi actor attended our rally, the BJP spoke to the Bangladesh government and got his visa cancelled. When the polls are underway here, you (Modi) went to Bangladesh to seek votes from one section of people. Why shouldn’t your visa be cancelled? We will complain to the EC.”
In his speech at Orakandi, Modi mentioned his authorities would improve a women’ faculty and arrange a major faculty within the space.
“I was speaking to some people here. They were saying who could have thought that India’s Prime Minister would visit Orakandi. I am feeling the same emotion,” he mentioned.