Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday at Barasat Kachari Maidan in North 24 Parganas district. (Express photo by Shashi Ghosh)
Drawing a cricket analogy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that the people of West Bengal have hit so many fours and sixes in the first four phases of the Assembly elections that the BJP has already completed its “century”, and that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been “cleaned bowled”.
Referring to the death of four people in firing by CISF personnel in Cooch Behar, he slammed Banerjee for disrespecting the security forces on poll duty.
Modi, who addressed rallies in Bardhaman and Kalyani on Monday, said: “…Even the Cooch Behar incident is the outcome of her instigation. Didi has never urged for peaceful voting but spoke of violence through her slogan ‘khela hobe’ (game is on).”
Meanwhile,
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday said the proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC) would have no impact on Gorkhas.
Addressing party workers after a roadshow in Kalimpong in north Bengal, Shah said Gorkhas would not be harmed as long as the Narendra Modi-led BJP government was at the Centre.