Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that May 4, when votes will be counted, would mark the “expiry” of the “TMC’s 15-year-old syndicate system and maha jungle raj” in West Bengal. He claimed that the massive poll turnout in the state indicated that the TMC’s regime of ‘bhoy’ (fear) was “surely getting defeated” by the ‘bharosa’ (trust) the BJP had promised.

“There’s not one sector in Bengal where work gets done without bribes, where TMC syndicates and their middlemen don’t take cut money. That 15-year-old syndicate system and the ‘maha jungle raj’ of TMC have reached their expiry date, which is May 4,” Modi said.