Launching yet another salvo against West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday addressed his third rally in Bengal in four days and claimed that the chants of 'Modi, Modi' were giving her sleepless night. Referring to her as 'Speedbreaker Didi' while speaking at the Rasmela Ground in Cooch Behar, he claimed, "The more you do 'Modi' 'Modi', the more Speed breaker Didi loses sleep and takes out her anger on the Election Commission of India. Her restlessness shows what happens to a person who is afraid of losing support at the ground level."
Later in the day, when addressing a rally in Tripura, he also attacked the Left and the Congress and claimed that "the Opposition will stoop to any level to oust me". He even took a jibe at Congress' manifesto, alleging that it seems to be blowing Pakistan's trumpet more than that of India.
Interestingly, of his three meetings in West Bengal, two were in north Bengal where the party aims to score the maximum seats in the state.
Pointing to the bamboo structure readied for Mamata's Monday rally at the same ground, Modi said, "The stage there has been put up to prevent people from gathering in my meeting."
"The stage is a monument of Didi's destruction. What she is doing is so child-like. How can one think of winning by doing such childish activities?"
He reiterated that while the Central government had replied to Pakistan's terror attack at Pulwama with an air strike and successfully tested the anti -satellite missile, Mamata was among the first one to criticise and shower canards. "She and her 'milawat' friends had a problem with everything and kept on chanting 'Modi hatao', 'Modi hatao'. He alleged that Mamata had supported people who want to divide the country and make two Prime Ministers within the country — one in India and another one in Kashmir.
Referring to the CPM rule in Tripura he said, "The BJP took over from the CPM, but started its own policies for growth and development, unlike the TMC which had ousted the Left Front rule in Bengal. I cannot imagine how she has been following their footsteps in terms of hooliganism, high-handedness, and corruption. Her leaders were involved in chit-fund scams."
He added that Mamata had tried to put a speedbreaker in the implementation of NRC in Assam, but failed and now she and her friends were trying to stop the Citizenship Amendment Bill, but would not succeed.
In Tripura's Udaipur, PM Modi criticised Congress' manifesto and said, "Congress' fraud document seems to be blowing the trumpet for Pakistan more than that of India. Congress has said that nobody can touch Article 370 (special status for Jammu and Kashmir) of the Constitution. The government in Pakistan has also been taking the same stand. What is the connection?" Modi asked.
(With agency inputs)
