Hooghly (West Bengal) [India], January 18 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday hit out at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, asserting that West Bengal is prepared for ‘paltano dorkar’ (wanted change) and to bid farewell to the TMC’s ‘mega-Jungle Raj’.
Recalling the NDA’s landslide victory within the Bihar meeting elections final yr, ending ‘Jungle Raj’, the Prime Minister expressed confidence that West Bengal could be subsequent, saying the BJP and the NDA had already put an finish to ‘Jungle Raj’ in Bihar.
Addressing a large public rally in Singur, PM Modi mentioned,’ The BJP and NDA have as soon as once more stopped the return of Jungle Raj in Bihar, West Bengal can be able to bid farewell to TMC’s mega-Jungle Raj. This large public tide in Singur, this vitality and enthusiasm of all of you, is telling the brand new story of West Bengal. Everyone has include the identical feeling, the identical hope that we wish actual change. Every single particular person desires to finish the 15-year jungle raj.’
Calling for an finish to ‘utter lawlessness’ beneath the TMC authorities, PM Modi mentioned, ‘It may be very obligatory for TMC’s reign of jungle raj to finish in Bengal and for BJP’s good governance to return. For this, we must comply with the trail proven by Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar.’
He added that Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar had made girls’s energy and youth energy the medium of change, and mentioned the identical forces should now lead Bengal’s transformation. ‘Under TMC’s rule, daughters will not be protected, and the schooling system can be within the grip of mafias and corrupt parts,’ the Prime Minister alleged.
Urging voters to again the BJP within the upcoming Assembly elections, he mentioned, ‘Your one vote for BJP will be certain that incidents of rape and violence in schools listed here are curbed, it should be certain that incidents like Sandeshkhali don’t occur once more in Bengal, and that hundreds of lecturers in Bengal don’t lose their jobs once more (lecturers’ recruitment ‘rip-off’).’
In July 2024, Sandeshkhali, a village in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, had been in a political storm after villagers, largely girls, got here out on the streets in opposition to the ruling TMC and its strongman Shahjahan, accusing him and his aides of ‘land-grab and sexual assault’ beneath coercion.
The Prime Minister additionally accused the TMC of compromising nationwide safety by facilitating infiltration. ‘The TMC authorities is enjoying with the safety of West Bengal and the nation as properly. TMC gives all types of services to infiltrators right here. It holds protests to guard infiltrators,’ he mentioned, including that regardless of repeated letters from the Centre over the previous 11 years looking for land for border fencing, the TMC authorities had didn’t act.
Stressing the necessity for a ‘double-engine’ authorities, Modi mentioned West Bengal may obtain speedy improvement provided that the BJP is in energy within the state as properly.
‘Wherever there’s a double-engine BJP authorities, exceptional progress is being made. Let me spotlight the success of the Har Ghar Jal Scheme. In Tripura, beneath the earlier authorities, solely 4 out of each 100 households had piped water. Today, beneath the BJP authorities, 85 households out of 100 obtain piped water,’ he mentioned.
PM Modi accused the TMC of blocking central initiatives in Bengal, together with Ayushman Bharat, PM SHRI colleges and schemes for fishermen beneath the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana.
‘Every authorities that obstructs improvement work is now constantly punished by conscious voters. In Delhi, we saved telling the earlier authorities to implement the Ayushman scheme totally free therapy of poor households, however they would not hear. Now, the folks of Delhi are benefiting. Similarly, the folks of Bengal have resolved to show a lesson to TMC’s ruthless authorities in order that Ayushman Bharat can attain the poor right here as properly,’ PM Modi mentioned.
The PM additional accused the TMC of denying entry to high quality schooling for Bengal’s youth. ‘While hundreds of recent PM SHRI colleges are being established nationwide, TMC is denying youngsters in West Bengal entry to high quality schooling. It is time to exchange the TMC authorities to safe a greater future for the youth of Bengal,’ he mentioned.
PM Modi additionally touched upon central initiatives for fishermen and cultural achievements. ‘The central authorities has created a digital platform to assist fishermen, however in Bengal, this work has come to a halt. TMC will not be cooperating, stopping fishermen from benefiting from schemes just like the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana. Bengali language and literature have a wealthy heritage, and it was solely after the BJP got here to energy in Delhi that Bengali acquired the standing of a Classical Language, and Durga Puja was recognised by UNESCO as an Intangible Cultural Heritage,’ he mentioned.
Before addressing the rally, PM Modi laid the muse stone of, and flagged off improvement tasks price greater than Rs 830 crore, together with the Extended Port Gate System and the Jayrambati-Barogopinathpur-Maynapur rail line at Singur, Hooghly, in West Bengal.
Earlier at this time, addressing a public gathering in Nagaon district, Assam, the Prime Minister focused the Congress and accused the occasion of compromising Assam’s land and pursuits for political achieve.
‘The Congress occasion handed over Assam’s soil to infiltrators simply to type governments and garner just a few votes. The Congress occasion shaped governments in Assam for many years, and through this time, infiltration saved rising,’ PM Modi mentioned.
In the backdrop of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) file mandate in Maharashtra and Bihar, and the main electoral setbacks suffered by the Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday mentioned the Congress would obtain a ‘resounding response’ from the folks of Assam as properly within the subsequent meeting polls.
PM Modi laid the muse stone of the Kaziranga Elevated Corridor Project (4-Laning of the Kaliabor-Numaligarh part of NH-715), price over Rs 6,950 Crore, in Kaliabor, Nagaon district.
The Prime Minister additionally flagged off two New Amrit Bharat Express trains, Guwahati (Kamakhya)-Rohtak Amrit Bharat Express and Dibrugarh-Lucknow (Gomti Nagar) Amrit Bharat Express. The undertaking will cross by way of Nagaon, Karbi Anglong and Golaghat districts and can considerably enhance connectivity to Upper Assam, notably Dibrugarh and Tinsukia. (ANI)