Attend no-confidence motion against Modi Govt: Didi to TMC MPs

A day after the Trinamool Congress leadership said Mamata Banerjee will leave no stone unturned to bring the Opposition forces on one platform, the Bengal Chief Minister asked her party MPs to assemble in Delhi by Thursday to take part in the no-confidence motion against the BJP Government.

“The Chief Minister has asked all the MPs to report their presence in Delhi latest by tomorrow (Thursday) so that they are available during the debate on no confidence motion,” a senior party leader said in Kolkata, adding Banerjee had also asked all the MPs to take part in the debate and make their voices heard and views known.

“Mamata Banerjee has told the MPs to make their voices heard and their views known during the no-confidence motion that will be brought against the BJP Government,” the leader said.

“When the entire Opposition and the entire country is trying to get united against this oppressive anti-people Government the Trinamool Congress MPs should not remain behind and should make themselves counted in the effort,” the leader quoting the Chief Minister said.

Meanwhile, in a separate development the Bengal ruling outfit upped the ante against Prime Minister Narendra Modi attacking him for calling the Trinamool Congress, a party run by the syndicates.

Senior Trinamool Congress leader and Minister Firhad Hakim on Wednesday launched a scathing counter-attack against the Prime Minister for making “irrelevant points” instead of raising prime issues that concerned the farmers in a stated farmers’ rally.

“We are expecting the Prime Minister to come out with packages like announcing schemes to provide the farmers with tractors or giving them assistance but here we were taking aback by the stand he took in the meeting that the BJP called a farmers’ rally,” the Minister said.

Attacking Modi for calling the Trinamool Congress a party run by syndicates Hakim said “instead of looking for syndicates in the TMC the Prime Minister should have watched out for BJP’s own syndicates in Gujarat that has churned out big industrial names at the cost of public money.”

At another level the State and Central Governments continued to shift responsibility over the freak accident at Modi’s rally at Midnapore on Monday that left more than 90 people injured after scaffoldings holding huge shamianas collapsed.

While the State PWD said it had discharged its duty by successfully taking care of the “blue-book” area where the Prime Minister and the other VVIPs were supposed to move the BJP and the Centre wondered why the State police handled matter so negligently leading to the accident.