The Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) on Sunday launched a scathing assault on Trinamool Congress (TMC) after the latter introduced its list of 42 candidates in West Bengal for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Taking to X (previously often known as Twitter), BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya labelled Trinamool Congress’s candidate checklist as a ‘damp squib’, stating the inclusion of seven former BJP members, a few of whom he mentioned had been “discards”.
Taking a dig at Trinamool’s number of candidates, Malviya mentioned that Shatrughan Sinha, Kirti Azad and Yousuf Pathan are ‘Bohiragotos’ (outsiders) and questioned if the social gathering “didn’t discover sufficient sons of the soil to discipline?”
“TMC checklist of candidates is such a moist squib. 7 of the 42 (17% of the names) within the checklist are former BJP, some discards. The TMC doesn’t have sufficient candidates of its personal? Of them, Shatrughan Sinha, Kirti Azad and Yousuf Pathan are Bohiragotos. TMC didn’t discover sufficient sons of the soil to discipline?” Malviya wrote in his tweet.
Moreover, Malviya additionally highlighted the candidacy of Abu Taher Khan, whose SUV allegedly dragged and killed a child. “Did TMC have any much less criminals that Mamata Banerjee wanted Taher on the checklist?” he requested.
The BJP leader also questioned the inclusion of Mahua Moitra, who was expelled from Parliament for a number of violations.
Expressing concern about Trinamool’s try to distance itself from the appeasement politics cost, Malviya famous that the social gathering had fielded solely six Muslim candidates in comparison with seven within the earlier elections.
He additional criticised the TMC’s candidate choice course of, asserting that the checklist lacked vigor amid ongoing corruption circumstances towards Abhishek Banerjee and the latest arrest of a number of Bengal ministers.
Referring to the ongoing unrest in Sandeshkhali, Malviya mentioned, “2024 Lok Sabha elections will mark the start of the top of Mamata Banerjee’s misrule in Bengal”.
MALVIYA SLAMS SHATRUGAN SINHA’S CANDIDACY
In one other tweet, Malviya shared a clip of an previous movie that includes Shatrugan Sinha and mentioned, “Trinamool rank is stuffed with rapist, each in actual (like of Shahjahan Sheikh) and reel life”.
“Shocked Mamata Banerjee didn’t ask Shatrughan Sinha to hitch her on the eve of Worldwide Girls’s Day for the sham ladies empowerment march,” he wrote additional.
TRINAMOOL’S CANDIDATE LIST
The Mamata Banerjee-led social gathering introduced the candidate checklist for all 42 Lok Sabha seats of West Bengal, dropping no less than eight sitting MPs and bringing in a number of new faces comparable to former cricketers Yusuf Pathan and Kriti Azad.
The social gathering renominated 16 sitting MPs and fielded 12 ladies.
Cricketer Yusuf Pathan will contest the Baharampur Lok Sabha seat, whereas Kirti Aazd will battle from the Bardhaman-Durgapur constituency. Veteran Bollywood actor Shatrugan Sinha has been fielded from Asansol.
The social gathering additionally renominated expelled Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra from Krishnanagar seat for the second consecutive time period.
From the Basirhat Lok Sabha seat, the place Sandeshkhali is located, Trinamool Congress pitted its former MP Haji Nurul Islam by dropping sitting MP Nusrat Jahan.