TMC is anti-tribal, anti-women, and anti-youth party: PM Modi

PM Narendra Modi during a public rally in West Bengal

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday alleged that the "tukde-tukde" gang had threatened to snap the strategic Siliguri Corridor to cut off the Northeast from the rest of the country, and the TMC gave them support from the streets to the Parliament because of its "appeasement politics".

Addressing an election rally at the Kawakhali ground in the northern West Bengal city of Siliguri, Modi called the TMC an "anti-tribal, anti-women and anti-youth party", whose appeasement politics has brought about untold misery to the state.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. PICS/PTI

"The country has a ‘tukde-tukde' gang, and it threatened to cut off the Siliguri Corridor. They wanted to separate the Northeast from the country. TMC, which indulges in appeasement politics, supports such people from the streets to Parliament. That is the real face of TMC," he alleged, addressing his eighth rally in the state since assembly elections were declared.

He alleged that the TMC has destroyed the state during its 15-year tenure and halted implementation of central schemes like the one for providing piped drinking water to remote tribal areas, as a result of which less than 25 per cent of work could be completed.

BJP threatening TMC candidates: Mamata

Addressing poll rallies at Asansol in Paschim Bardhaman, Chhatna, and Onda in Bankura district, and Khandagosh in Purba Bardhaman, West Bengal Chief Minster Mamata Banerjee on Sunday alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is threatening Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidates, including state ministers, seeking their support if it falls short of the majority mark after the assembly elections. The majority mark in the West Bengal assembly is 148. The BJP won 77 seats in the 2021 polls.

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