Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a scathing attack at the TMC government on Sunday, of 'playing with national security by aiding infiltrators' for vote-bank politics, and said it was necessary to end its 'maha jungle raj' in West Bengal to pave the way for development and good governance.
Addressing a rally in Singur in Hooghly district, he claimed that the state government had "failed" to cooperate with the Centre on critical security measures, including border fencing.
“The TMC is playing with national security. They are trying to protect infiltrators because they consider them their vote bank,” the prime minister claimed.
He asserted that illegal immigrants living in the state by forging documents must be identified and sent back to their countries.
“For the last several years, the Centre has been writing to the TMC government seeking land for border fencing, but the state dispensation did nothing,” Modi alleged.
The prime minister also accused the TMC of "helping" groups that allegedly facilitate the settlement of infiltrators in Bengal, and asserted that a BJP government would “weed out illegal immigrants” from the state.
“Your vote to the BJP will help weeding out infiltrators from Bengal,” he told the rally, reiterating the party’s pitch for a “double-engine government” in the state.
Calling for a change of guard, the prime minister said it was essential to end the TMC’s “maha jungle raj” and bring a BJP government committed to good governance.
“Bengal must have a double-engine government of the BJP, as it will give a thrust to development,” he said.
News agency ANI also reported the prime minister saying, "There was a similar government in Delhi that did not allow the central schemes to be implemented, therefore, the people of Delhi showed them the door.
"The people of Bengal have resolved that the people here are going to teach a lesson to the ruthless TMC government so that a BJP government is formed here too and the Ayushman Bharat scheme is implemented in Bengal as well," he alleged.
He also added, "Industries will be established in Bengal, investments will come only when law and order improves here, but in Bengal, rioters, looters, and mafias have been given free rein. Here, syndicate tax is imposed on everything. Only the BJP government will end this syndicate tax, this mafia rule, and this is also Modi's guarantee."
(with PTI inputs)