Priyanka Tibrewal, the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate for the Bhabanipur Assembly bye-election, has taken the fight to the Trinamool Congress’ den by claiming on Friday that it is she, and not Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who is a local.
Taking a dig at Mamata’s ‘Bangla nijer meyekei chaaye’ (Bengal wants its own daughter) campaign during the high-octane Assembly elections earlier this year, Tibrewal took it to ‘Bhabanipur nijer meyekei chaaye’.
“Bhabanipur nijer meyekei chaaye. I was born in Bhabanipur, Mamata was not born in Bhabanipur,” Tibrewal said when asked what her slogan will be for the bypolls
Mamata Banerjee today filed her nomination from the Bhabanipur constituency, her otherwise ‘home’ seat, after losing the Assembly polls to BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari in Nandigram.
“The candidate opposite me (Mamata Banerjee) has lost an election, that’s why a bye-election is being held in Bhabanipur. They (TMC) had already won Bhabanipur but they don’t care for democracy or for what people say,” the BJP candidate said.
West Bengal Agriculture Minister Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay had vacated the Bhabanipur seat for Mamata after winning it in May.
“People had given mandate to someone from TMC over there but Mamata Banerjee decided to remove him as she wanted to contest. That’s the condition of democracy here. They have no respect for people’s thoughts and votes,” Tibrewal said.
The Bhabanipur bye-election will be held on September 30, along with bypolls in Samserganj and Jangipur constituencies of West Bengal, and Pipli in Odisha on the same day. The counting of votes will be done on October 3.
“My fight is not against any individual but against injustice. This fight is to save the people of West Bengal. Yes, it is against one particular person (CM) who remained silent during violence in the state,” the BJP candidate added.
