Baishnabnagar (WB), April 2 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday that the BJP would not have come to power in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections had the Congress been a strong party.
Addressing an election rally in Malda, a traditional Congress stronghold, she asserted that Bengal would set the path for challenging the BJP in Delhi in the future and claimed that the saffron party would not succeed by trying to demean the state.
"Had they (Congress) been strong, the BJP would not have come to power in the last general elections," Banerjee said.
The TMC, Congress, and the CPI(M) are part of the opposition INDIA bloc at the national level, but are contesting against each other in the West Bengal assembly elections.
Banerjee also accused the grand old party of fielding candidates during elections after remaining silent throughout the year.
The CM said she was forced to form the Trinamool Congress because the Congress, in concert with the CPI(M), pushed her to the edge of her tolerance.
She was a Congress leader and a Union Minister in the Rajiv Gandhi government in her early political years.
"Now, the CPI(M), Congress, and the BJP are all hand-in-glove," she said.
