Modi calls Mahagathbandhan, an act that shows the fear in opposition party leaders
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that the opposition’s mahagathbandhan (grand alliance) is not just against the BJP, but the people of India as opposition leaders huddled together in West Bengal for TMC’s mega rally.
Addressing a gathering at Silvassa, a tribal town bordering Gujarat which falls in Dadar and Nagar Haveli, PM Modi trained the guns at the mahagathbandhan rally led by West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, calling it a combine of those he prevented from looting India.
“The ‘mahagathbandhan’ or grand alliance is not just against Narendra Modi but also against the people of India. They can make any number of gathbandhan to save their ‘parivars’ but they will never be able to win hearts of the people ,” the prime minister said on Saturday while addressing a public function at Silvassa, the capital of the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
Modi said all these parties once used to abuse the Congress, but now their leaders are together as the ground is slipping beneath their feet.
“Their politics, which is centred around hatred for Modi, can get traction in newspapers and television channels, but it will never be able to win hearts of the people who are watching their every move,” the prime minister said, after laying a foundation stone for a medical college.
Against the backdrop of the West Bengal government denying permission to BJP to organise yatras in West Bengal, the PM said political parties in the TMC-ruled state are not even allowed to carry out their programmes.
“Party workers are killed there during elections and they talk about saving democracy. When those involved in suffocating democracy talk of saving it, then people will say ‘wah kya baat hai…’,” he said, mocking the parties opposing BJP.
In a dig at the opposition rally organised by the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in Kolkata, he said the BJP has only one MLA in West Bengal, “but still they are so afraid of us because we follow the path of truth that they have gathered parties from across the country and are crying ‘bachao, bachao, bachao’ (save us)”.
