BJP to Emerge As Biggest Gainer In West Bengal, TMC Fighting For Existence: PM Modi

New Delhi: As Lok Sabha election enters the final phase, Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed that West Bengal will become best-performing state for the BJP and that the party will emerge as the biggest gainer in TMC-ruled state. 

Affirming that West Bengal Lok Sabha election is ‘one-sided’ and TMC is fighting for its existence, PM Modi said that BJP will get maximum success in the state. 

“In Bengal elections, TMC party is fighting for existence. You must have seen it in the last assembly elections, we had three seats. The people of Bengal took us from three to 80. We got a lot of support in the Lok Sabha in the last elections. This time, the best-performing state in India is going to be West Bengal. BJP is getting most success in West Bengal,” the Prime Minister said in an exclusive interview to news agency ANI. 

How BJP Made Inroads in Bengal: PM Modi Explains

The Prime Minister recalled the 2019 Lok Sabha election in which BJP made strong inroads in the state by winning 18 seats out of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal. 

He mentioned that atrocities performed by the TMC workers, including murder and attacks on BJP workers, has made public aware of party's true face. 

"There are constant murders and attacks. The BJP workers are being locked in jails before the elections. Despite all these atrocities, the public is coming out in large numbers to vote," PM Modi added.

Taking swipe at the TMC, he raised the Calcutta High Court's decision to cancel all OBC certificates issued in West Bengal after 2010. PM Modi referred to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's earlier remarks of not accepting the High Court verdict on OBC certificates and said "they are abusing the judiciary".

“They have a modus operandi. First, they started the sin of giving it to minorities by making a law in Andhra Pradesh, they lost in the Supreme Court and the High Court rejected it because the Constitution does not allow it. So they cleverly started the game from the back door and these people overnight made all the castes of Muslim as OBCs and they robbed the OBCs of their rights...When the High Court's judgment came, it became clear that such a big fraud was taking place.”

"But what is even more unfortunate is that for vote bank politics, now they are also abusing the judiciary. And they are even saying that no matter what happens, we are not going to listen to the court. This situation cannot be acceptable under any circumstances," he said.

The six phases of the Lok Sabha elections are over and the final phase will be held on June 1 in 57 constituencies in eight states and union territories. The results of the elections will be declared on June 4.