Mamata mocks Shah's 15-day Bengal plan, also slams Owaisi
Kolkata, April 4 -- West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday mocked Union Home Minister Amit Shah's announcement that he would camp in the state for 15 days, declaring that even 365 days would not help the BJP because "people of Bengal do not like you".
Addressing a poll rally at Habibpur in Malda district, Banerjee also turned her guns on AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi without naming him, accusing the "Hyderabad cuckoo of the BJP" of engineering the protests in Malda in which seven judicial officers engaged in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise were confined for hours inside a block office.
Her remarks came a day after Shah, during BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari's nomination filing programme from Bhabanipur, announced that he would stay in West Bengal for 15 days during the election campaign, underscoring the importance the BJP central leadership has attached to the battle for Bengal.
"Bengal is not Delhi where everything can be managed through agencies and money power. You are saying you will stay here for 15 days. Even if you stay for 365 days, nothing will happen. People here do not like you," Banerjee said, taking a swipe at Shah.
With Malda turning into the epicentre of the row after Wednesday night's blockade of judicial officers in Kaliachak-II block, Banerjee attempted a delicate balancing act -- condemning the incident but simultaneously blaming "outsiders" and opposition parties for stoking the unrest.
"One incident in Malda has tarnished Bengal's honour. The local people are not responsible for it. They may have grievances. But the people who trapped the judges were outsiders. A cuckoo of the BJP has come from Hyderabad along with some communal people. They are behind all this. We have caught them red-handed. CID picked them up from the airport," she said.
She didn't name Owaisi though....
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