Victory chariot won’t stop till Bengal is won, says Amit Shah

Kolkata: Vowing to uproot the Trinamul Congress in its bastion BJP president Amit Shah made it clear on Saturday that the saffron party’s victory in 19 states in the country would be “insignificant” if it can not come to power in the native place of its founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee.

He affirmed that the BJP’s ‘chariot of victory’ must not stop till Bengal is won. With the call for Parivartan (Change), a slogan coined by the Trinamul supremo Mamata Banerjee to come to power in West Bengal in 2011, Mr Shah pleaded to the people of West Bengal to give ‘one chance’ to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to usher development in the state.

Addressing a massive BJYM rally on Mayo Road in heart of Kolkata on the martyrdom anniversary of Bengali freedom fighter Khudiram Bose, Mr Shah also declared that the West Bengal chief minister’s opposition with the help of Congress president Rahul Gandhi to the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam would not succeed. Accusing them of patronising illegal immigrants for votebank politics he sought them to clarify their stand whether the nation’s security was their priority. Mr Shah said, “This huge rally clearly indicates that Parivartan is going to take place in Bengal. Mamataji, I will tour the districts and take our movement there to uproot the Trinamul.”

Revealing the BJP’s goal with come to power in West Bengal Mr Shah elaborated, “We are definitely anti-Mamata. We are here to oppose the Trinamul surely. The BJP now rules 19 states in the country. This accounts almost 70 per cent of the land of the country. A Trinamul leader was boasting that the BJP is however not in Bengal.” The BJP chief added, “I call upon all the party workers and supporters from West Bengal that those 19 governments are insignificant untill the BJP forms government in the land of Syama Prasad Mookerjee, Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore. Our chariot of victory shall not stop till then.” Mr Shah told the rally, “If you can not bring the change, uproot the Trinamul from power. Bring a BJP government under Narendra Modi’s leadership.

Only then Bengal can be in the path of development. The Congress, Communists and Trinamul could not bring progress here. Please give one chance to Narendra Modi. He will undertake development.”

Lambasting Ms Banerjee for her vehement opposition to the NRC in Assam Mr Shah claimed, “She put up opposition to the NRC in New Delhi. I want to tell the people of Bengal that the NRC is the process of selecting the infiltrators in Assam and throwing them out. Tell me loudly whether the Bangladeshi infiltrators should be taken out or not.”

Referring to the Trinamul chief for her call against the Bangladeshi infiltrators in 2005 he mentioned, ”Didi, the NRC will not stop by your opposotion. Even if you and Mr Gandhi oppose, we are committed to complete the NRC process properly in Assam and select each and every infiltrator. How hard you try, we will not halt.”

Mr Shah complained, “Bangladeshi infiltrators have now become her votebank. That is why she wants them to stay in Bengal and Assam. She and the Congress president must clarify whether they want to uphold the nation’s security or votebank politics or not. To us, nation always comes first, votebank later.”

After seeing banners saying: Anti Bengal BJP, Go Back while coming from the Kolkata Airport to the rally venue earlier he wondered, “How can we be anti-Bangla? Afterall our party was founded by Bengal’s great son Syama Prasad Mookerjee.”