"Today, West Bengal is grappling with a series of crises. People don't want 'nirmam sarkar'. They want change and good governance. That is why the whole of Bengal is saying they don't want cruelty and corruption anymore," the prime minister said

Turning his guns on the West Bengal teacher recruitment scam, Modi accused the TMC of "ruining the future of thousands of teachers and their families" through rampant corruption and irregularities

PM Modi stated that the youth, poor, and middle-class families of Bengal are bearing the brunt of corruption and said the people of the state have now lost faith in the TMC government

Criticising the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC government for the communal violence in Murshidabad and Malda, the PM said the allegation was that lawbreakers were allowed to operate unchecked under the guise of appeasement, while the police stood by helplessly, failing to act

The PM also expressed disappointment over the West Bengal government's absence from the recent Niti Aayog meeting, accusing the TMC of being more interested in politics than development