Amit Shah: ‘Tata Bye Bye’ to Didi by 1 PM on May 4
I want to tell Rahul Baba that Congress will not be able to cross a double digit in Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry.
Kolkata: Union home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday predicted that Trinamul Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee will be ousted as West Bengal chief minister by 1 pm on May 4, the date the Assembly poll results will be announced for West Bengal.
Mr Shah, while addressing a BJP poll campaign rally in Dum Dum, also accused the TMC government of turning Kolkata into “a city of slums” in its bid to offer shelter to the infiltrators and to turn them into the party's votebank. He vowed to bring back Kolkata's lost glory.
Referring to Ms Banerjee's fate, Mr Shah said, “On May 4, the counting of votes will start in the morning. The ballot boxes will be opened at 8 am. The first round will be done at 9 am. The second round will be over at 10 am. The counting will end at 1 pm and Didi will be out of power… Tata, goodbye."
Lamenting the dilapidated condition in Kolkata, Mr Shah claimed, “It has become a city of slums due to the long misrule of the TMC and the Communists. There are many cities in the country which have become free of slums. But Didi does not think about it.”
“Mamata Didi wants to provide shelter to the infiltrators to turn them into her votebank. That's why she has no intention of uplifting people's lives," Mr Shah alleged.
Targeting the Congress party, Mr Shah asserted that Lok Sabha Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi's party will fail in the ongoing Assembly elections. “I want to tell Rahul Baba that the Congress will not be able to cross a double-digit mark in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. In West Bengal, you may not even be able to open your account, and in Assam, the Congress will face its biggest defeat ever,” the BJP key strategist claimed.
The Union home minister condemned Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge for calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi a "terrorist".
Later in the day, Mr Shah campaigned in three more places, including North 24 Parganas and Hooghly, and led a roadshow in Sonarpur South in the evening.
The Union home minister, who at a meeting asked the BJP leaders to ensure at least a 20,000-vote victory margin for party candidates in ongoing polls, will be camping in Bengal till April 27.
