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Indian national cricket team captain Rohit Sharma seen wearing a ‘saffron’ practice jersey. (Photo: Archive/BCCI)
West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party president Sukanta Majumdar on Saturday lashed out at Mamata Banerjee saying India is incomplete without saffron and CM Banerjee is only doing vote bank politics and appeasement.
Banerjee accused the BJP of changing the practice jersey of Indian cricketers to saffron and said, “We are proud of our Indian players and I believe they will be World Cup champions. They (BJP) have even dyed their practice jerseys saffron in color”. “.
“The tricolor has the color saffron. Can you (CM Mamata Banerjee) remove it from there too?…India is incomplete without the color saffron. So CM Mamata Banerjee is only doing vote bank politics and appeasement,” he said. Majumdar. .
Earlier, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee lashed out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), saying that while the state government does all the work, the BJP-led central government only focuses on publicity.
“We work and they do advertisement. If they had given the money spent on advertisement to the workers, then there would have been no MGNREGA protests. We have never seen anything like this,” the Chief Minister said at Calcutta Posta while inaugurating the Jagadhatri Puja . organized by the Posta Bazar Merchants Association.
“You can only get something through advertisements, but they are not permanent. Seats can come and go,” he added.
Mamata claimed that the BJP government is “selling out” India and that thousands of industrialists have left the country.
The country will go to the polls in 2024. Mamata Banerjee is one of the strongest opponents of the Narendra Modi-led BJP government and is part of the opposition INDIA bloc that will take on the giant Modi.
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First published: November 19, 2023 | 8:24 a.m. IS
