Debra (WB), April 10 Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Friday that the people of West Bengal were suffering, but Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was more interested in making her nephew the next chief minister.
Addressing an election rally in Debra, Paschim Medinipur district, Shah accused Banerjee of protecting infiltrators and asserted that if the BJP were voted to power, it would identify and deport every illegal immigrant from the state.
"The people here are suffering, but Mamata Banerjee is more interested in making her nephew the next chief minister," Shah said, apparently referring to TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee.
He also alleged that the TMC government was more focused on building madrasas than building schools for the underprivileged.
"Mamata Banerjee wants to protect infiltrators, but the BJP wants to detect, deport, and eliminate infiltrators... Mamata ji, no matter how hard you try, we will drive out every illegal immigrant from West Bengal," he said.
"Mamata Banerjee came to power with the slogan of 'Maa-Mati-Manush', but the youth are unemployed, women are subjected to atrocities, and farmers' lives are made difficult," he alleged.
Shah also accused the TMC government of institutionalizing corruption through what he described as a 'cut-money' culture.
"The TMC has destroyed West Bengal with its 'cut-money' politics," he said.
The Union minister also sought to woo voters in the flood-prone Ghatal region, promising that the long-pending Ghatal master plan would be implemented within a year if the BJP formed the government in the state.
"We will implement the Ghatal master plan within one year and solve the flood problem in the area," he said.
