New Delhi: “If we unite, the BJP will lose the 2024 elections,” West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee mentioned Monday, including that solely the judiciary may “save the nation”.
Banerjee accused the BJP of focusing on Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLAs in a “deliberate method”, whereas no motion was taken towards wrongdoers within the BJP, the chief minister mentioned.
On Monday, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested get together MLA Jiban Krishna Saha within the West Bengal academics’ recruitment rip-off.
It’s alleged that Saha acted as a conduit in gathering cash from candidates by promising them jobs within the schooling division as academics — within the recruitment strategy of the primary West Bengal State Degree Choice Check (SLST) 2016 for courses 9 and 10.
The Supreme Court docket, nonetheless, introduced some cheer to the TMC Monday when it stayed the Calcutta Excessive Court docket’s 13 April order calling for a CBI and Enforcement Directorate (ED) probe of Abhishek Banerjee within the recruitment rip-off.
Banerjee additionally demanded Union Residence Minister Amit Shah’s resignation Monday for saying in a latest rally that her authorities would fall earlier than time.
“As an alternative of defending India, Residence Minister Amit Shah is conspiring to topple my authorities,” Banerjee mentioned.
Final Friday, whereas inaugurating a celebration workplace in Birbhum, Shah mentioned if the BJP obtained 35 seats within the state, Mamata’s authorities wouldn’t survive past the 2025 Meeting elections.
“Each time elections are due, BJP makes feedback that polarise communities,” Banerjee mentioned, reiterating her stance that she wouldn’t enable implementation of the Nationwide Register of Residents and the Citizenship Modification Act in West Bengal.
She additionally criticised the BJP authorities in Uttar Pradesh after the homicide of gangster-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf on Saturday evening. “Encounters have turn out to be a standard factor for the individuals of Uttar Pradesh. Individuals of UP ought to protest towards these encounters. If something occurs in West Bengal, they (BJP) ship central businesses. BJP is double engine… double customary,” Banerjee mentioned.
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