Left-Cong grand alliance will defeat TMC, BJP: Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury

Alleging that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and West Bengal Chief Minister  Mamata Banerjee have the “same political DNA”, Leader of Congress in the Lok Sabha, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said on Sunday that the alliance of the Left Front, Congress and the Indian Secular Front (ISF) would come to power in the state.

“While Modi gave the call for a ‘Congress mukt Bharat’ in Delhi, Didi speaks of ensuring zero opposition. Didi and Modi have the same political DNA,” said Chowdhury. He was addressing the mega rally of the Left Front, Congress and the Indian Secular Front at the Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata.

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He also said that the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the BJP wanted to project the Assembly elections as a two-way fight as the two parties want no other rivals in Bengal.

“Those who wanted to project the Assembly elections as a two-way fight have been proved wrong by the alliance. They want nothing but the TMC and the BJP to remain in Bengal. But in future only the Sangyukta Morcha will remain,” said Chowdhury.

He said that the alliance was set up with the aim of uniting the secular and democratic forces and defeating the communal forces in the State.

“It has been founded with the aim of coming to power in Bengal,” said Chowdhury.

During the rally, Chattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel alleged that the TMC and the BJP were resorting to “divisive politics”.

He also said that “while the country needs to be saved from the BJP, Bengal needs to be saved from the TMC.”

Taking potshots at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Baghel said that while the “Chattisgarh government named the police academy in the State after Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose on his 125th birth anniversary, Modi got a stadium named after himself

He alleged that despite raising the slogan earlier that the country would not be sold Modi was privatising Railway stations and airports.