‘Conceitedness’: Bengal BJP Not Prepared To Take TMC’s ‘Outsider’ Tag This Time – News18
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The TMC vs BJP battle is about to warmth up forward of the 2026 West Bengal meeting elections
(Left) Bengal BJP’s reply to TMC’s artistic (proper).
With the West Bengal election a 12 months away, Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee held an organisational assembly and despatched clear disciplinary directions, even to high occasion leaders, to not badmouth advisor agency I-PAC.
Whereas it gave the opposition Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) sufficient fodder, what irked them was a social media artistic launched by the occasion the place the occasion is proven to be scoring “out” within the 2026 meeting election and known as an “outsider” and “anti-Bengal”.
This tag price the BJP pricey within the 2021 meeting election when the BJP’s slogan was ‘Do sau paar’. The occasion couldn’t cross 100. In a post-election evaluation, many senior Bengal BJP leaders advised inside occasion boards that the “outsider” tag was a key cause.
TMC cadres broadly campaigned on floor that if the BJP involves energy, primarily fish-eating West Bengal will probably be turned vegetarian, Bengali will probably be changed with Hindi as the primary language, and jobs will go to these from the Hindi heartland. This resulted in a worry psychosis which compelled many BJP supporters to vote the opposite manner in 2021, the BJP’s post-poll evaluation acknowledged.
Not like in 2021, the BJP doesn’t need these allegations to be left unchallenged. The second the artistic got here out, the BJP got here out with its personal artistic calling it TMC’s “vanity”. Apparently, the BJP selected to phrase it in Bengali first after which in English, studying their lesson.
BJP Rajya Sabha MP Samik Bhattacharya advised News18, “The TMC-led Bengal administration has introduced a conflict on linguistic minorities… The BJP has began to flush out Rohingya from the voter record. This appears to be revenge.”
Whereas the TMC has been attempting to make a case to construct a picture of the BJP-led Centre denying funds for key tasks akin to MGNREGA, just lately Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman too used sturdy phrases like “institutionalised corruption” whereas speaking about alleged rampant corruption in MGNREGA and PM Awas Yojana within the Trinamool Congress-ruled state. “The TMC has institutionalised corruption, gutted establishments and Trinamool has turn out to be a byword for exploitation,” she had mentioned in Parliament.
In December 2023, Banerjee claimed the Centre owed Bengal over Rs 1 lakh crore below varied schemes.
