Kolkata, April 26 -- Congress leader Rahul Gandhi accused Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee of paving the way for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal, where assembly elections are underway. "Mamata ji is paving the way for the BJP in Bengal. This is the truth. If Mamata ji had worked properly, if she had worked for Bengal, had not encouraged corruption and had taken actions in cases such as the rape and murder in RG Kar Hospital, there wouldn't have been any threat from the BJP," Gandhi said, while addressing an election rally in Hooghly district on Saturday for the second phase of West Bengal assembly elections. The Congress has decided to fight alone in this assembly elections and has fielded candidates in all the 294 assembly seats. The party's vote share dropped from 9.1% in 2011 to 3.1% in 2021. This time, however, the party is eyeing to regain its lost ground in at least four districts. The Congress MP, who is also the leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha, said that what Prime Minister Narendra Modi was doing at the centre, Banerjee was doing in West Bengal. "Neither Mamata Banerjee, nor Narendra Modi is concerned about industrialisation and unemployment. They just want power and are not interested to work for the development of the people. Modi rolled out demonetisation, wrongly imposed GST and deliberately destroyed the small industries. What Modi is doing at the centre, the same thing Mamata is doing in the state. She has destroyed industries and spread unemployment. If anyone wants employment in Bengal, he has to have a relative in the TMC," Gandhi said. "If Narendra Modi is encouraging corruption, Mamata is also not far behind. While Modi encourages riots across the country, Mamata resorts to violence against Congress workers in the state"He also said the Modi-government has filed several cases against him but not against Mamata Banerjee, claiming this is because she does not "directly" fight the BJP....