BJP tried to redefine its role in the coming West Bengal assembly elections while releasing its manifesto or a vision document as the party put it on Tuesday.
In a measured attack evenly rolled out against the Left, Trinamool Congress and Congress, party’s general secretary from Karnataka Anant Kumar said: “Bengal needs to know how to distinguish between CPI(M)-engineered misrule and destruction from TMC-proposed anarchy.”
“If CPI(M) stood for the stagnation and all that is bad for the last 34 years, Mamata Banerjee represented sheer anarchy in coming days,” Kumar added, though he admitted that winds of change have actually been lashing the gates of Writers’ Buildings. The party manifesto talked about all issues from economic stagnation to unemployment and laid out “Atal Behari Vajpayee’s development vision”.
“Mamata Banerjee must know that intention of Congress isn’t very good. They had pushed out Left from first UPA, let us not forget it,” Kumar said. BJP also did not forget to attack Mamata for maintaining silence over high corruption against UPA II and its failure to reign in price rise.
“She is with Congress which is involved in mega scams and failed to control price rise,” Kumar said, backing up issues Left would like to stir up against TMC.
“We do not hear any criticism against these issues from Mamataji,” he added.
Interestingly, what made the BJP manifesto a little different from three major players has been the issue of Bangladeshi infiltrators.
