Banerjee had said in a presser yesterday: “I am going to the Iftar party. You all also please come. "I appease Muslims, no? I will go there a hundred times. 'Je goru dudh dei tar lathio khete hoi; (if a cow gives milk, one has to be prepared for its kicks also).”
Hitting back at Mamata Banerjee over comment showing solidarity with Muslims and attending iftar, her former number 2 and BJP leader Mukul Roy asked Mamata if she was calling Muslims ‘cows’.
He further claimed that Mamata Banerjee ate Hilsa in the afternoon before attending Iftar.
Banerjee had said in a presser yesterday: “I am going to the Iftar party. You all also please come. "I appease Muslims, no? I will go there a hundred times. 'Je goru dudh dei tar lathio khete hoi; (if a cow gives milk, one has to be prepared for its kicks also).”
The Trinamool saw its bastion breached in 2019, with BJP picking up 18 seats in Bengal.
1. Mukul Roy switched colours
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Interestingly, Mukul Roy, who was once a close aide of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, joined BJP in 2017 after a fallout with the TMC supremo.
"I had said that Bijpur will give Dinesh da (Trivedi) a lead. But I failed. BJP took the lead. So, I lost against my father. I do not have any regrets and I do not need to blame anyone. I gave my best to my party, my father gave his best to his party too," he said at a press conference here on Friday.
Subhrangshu Roy won from the Bijpur Assembly seat twice in 2011 and 2016. The Assembly segment falls under the Barrackpore Lok Sabha constituency.
In a veiled jibe at TMC general secretary Partha Chatterjee's remarks on Mukul Roy, where he had called him 'Kanchrapara boy', Subhrangshu Roy said, "They always talk about Roy family. If anything happens, all will point fingers at us. Only Subhrangshu Roy is not there. There are other members in our family as well."
In this year's general elections, ruling TMC won 22 out of 42 Lok Sabha constituencies in West Bengal.
The Banerjee-led party had won 34 parliamentary seats in the state in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
2. BJP takes giant strides
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BJP made huge strides in the state by garnering 18 seats, 16 more than it had bagged in the 2014 polls. While Congress managed to win just two seats, the Left parties drew a blank.
Declaring that she did not want to continue as chief minister, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee on Saturday attributed her poor performance in the Lok Sabha polls to the "division" of Hindu-Muslims votes.
"I said at the beginning of the meeting that I don't want to continue as the Chief Minister. I trying hard to convince my party," she told the meeting after a meeting of her party leaders called to discuss the reverses in the elections.
3. Banerjee blames central forces
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Banerjee said the central forces worked against her party.
"An emergency situation was created. Hindu-Muslim division was done and votes were divided. We complained to the Election Commission of India (EC) but nothing was looked into," she said.
The Chief Minister alleged that a bribe of Rs 5000 was given to each family. "I still believe BJP has a lot of money," she said.
In the recently held Lok Sabha polls, TMC could win only 22 of the 34 Lok Sabha seats it had won in 2014. The BJP made deep inroads in the state this election by winning 18 states. (ANI)
