In his speech in Kerala where the Congress is pitted against the CPI-M, Gandhi is seen calling the Left’s ideology “obsolete” while his address in Bengal where it has entered into an electoral understanding with the Marxists, Gandhi is seen asking people to vote for the “Left-Congress alliance and oust Mamata Banerjee”. “But not a single person has got employment”, Gandhi said. “When Modi comes to Bengal, he speaks against Mamata but back in Delhi he asks his press friends not to write anything against the Trinamool and even asks them to support Mamata”.
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“Mamata ji and Modi ji are making false promises”.
He charged Mamata and Modi, whose Bharatiya Janata Party is battling the Congress-CPM alliance, with “telling lies about action against corruption and unemployment”.
Referring to the recent flyover collapse in Calcutta, which claimed several lives, Rahul alleged that the Trinamul government had given supply contracts to party members, who then supplied substandard material. In the 2014 general elections, TMC orchestrated violence, accompanied by electoral fraud, especially in the tribal-dominated districts in western Bengal, reached a nadir.
Seeking support for the Congress-Left alliance in the Assembly polls in West Bengal, he said if the alliance government was formed, its first task would be to provide employment, stop syndicate and corruption and take action against those involved in Saradha and Narada scam.
“Gandhi said the survivors told him of the “‘syndicate raj and mafia raj.
Mocking the Left Front-Congress alliance, she said they had teamed up as they were afraid of her.
Gandhi used the example of Hilsa, the exquisite gourmet fish of Bengal, to launch a scathing attack on both Banerjee and Modi.
“Mamata Banerjee had given a call for change. But the fact is in it has been Amavasya in Bengal in the last five years”, he added. Earlier when polls ended, we used to hear it was largely peaceful.
“A government’s job is to provide you with health, education and jobs; this government did not do that”.
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The chief minister has clearly been rattled by the “Choreder sarkar, ar nei dorkar” (we don’t need the thieves’ government) slogan which has been raised against her party, feels the Opposition.
