West Bengal Panchayat polls: Opposition hits out at Mamata Banerjee for party campaigning, check details
2 min read 26 Jun 2023, 08:27 PM ISTEarlier on Monday, Trinamool Congress supremo Banerjee kick started her party's campaign from North Bengal's Cooch Behar.
PremiumWest Bengal BJP state unit chief Sukanta Majumdar hit out at state Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for campaigning in the Panchayat polls, saying 'shows how strong the BJP has become'.
"These people [Trinamool Congress] were saying after May 2, 2021, [State Assembly election results] that the BJP has gone. But today a leader like Mamta Banerjee has to return to the ground after 12 years for the Panchayat elections, this shows how strong the BJP has become," Majumdar told ANI on 25 June.
Earlier on Monday, Trinamool Congress supremo Banerjee kick-started her party's campaign from North Bengal's Cooch Behar.
"Mamata Banerjee is returning to the ground to campaign for the panchayat polls. This is a great achievement for us. Now she is thinking that her opposition has become so powerful that she has to return to the ground and that too from North Bengal," Sukanta Majumdar said.
Meanwhile, West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhary also took a swipe. "Mamata Banerjee's campaigning for the panchayat elections after 12 years shows the weakness of the TMC party. She has realized that if she will not come into the ground then what will happen to her party," he said.
Mamata was seen making and serving tea to people at a tea stall in Jalpaiguri's Malbazar, as a part of her campaign for upcoming Panchayat polls.
"BJP wants to sell the country. Their double engines will soon vanish. They will lose their first engine in the Panchayat Elections of the state and the second engine in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections...We are trying to do a 'Maha Jota' (larger alliance) against BJP and it will be done soon," CM Mamata Banerjee said in Cooch Behar earlier in the day.
The panchayat election will be held in a single phase on July 8, with the counting of votes scheduled for July 11.
With agency inputs.
