Dantan:Launching a stinging attack on Union Home Minister Amit Shah over the cancellation of his Jhargram rally due to "technical glitches", TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee on Monday said more people watch excavation work by an earthmover or sip tea at a shop than those attending the senior BJP leader's public meeting.
The parliamentarian from Diamond Harbour constituency, also Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's nephew, wondered whether the BJP was planning to make 'Sonar Bangla' by extracting gold from cow milk, alluding to an earlier statement by state BJP Dilip Ghosh that had triggered outrage and ridicule.
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"Union Home Minister Amit Shah's scheduled rally at Jhargram was cancelled due to some technical glitch, it seems.
Anyways, the photos of the rally that I have received show very few people. More people watch excavation work done by an earthmover or sip tea at a village shop than those present at the senior BJP leader's public meeting.
"On the other hand, the massive participation of people in the TMC's rallies indicate that the party will return to power in the state on May 2 by bagging over 250 seats," he said while addressing a rally at Chandrakona in Paschim Medinipur district.
Calling for "driving out outsiders" coming to the state to seek votes, he said the "leader of the outsiders" is in Paschim Medinipur, where Shah is canvassing for party candidates.
"When there is no Sonar UP, Sonar Assam or Sonar Gujarat, how can the BJP promise to deliver Sonar Bangla? It appears Dilip Ghosh will build Sonar Bangla by extracting gold from cow milk," he said in another rally in Dantan in the district.