West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee
firmly stated that she is not a weak person who can be intimidated by the
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in a rally at Murshidabad on Tuesday, PTI reported. The TMC
leader compared the turncoats, who joined the saffron party, to Mir Jafar, a
commander of Nawab Siraj-ud-Daullah’s empire who betrayed him in the Battle of
Plassey against the British in 1757.

“There is no reason to think I am weak, I am not a person to be
afraid of anything. I am a strong person and will keep my head high as long as
I live and till then I will live like a Royal Bengal Tiger,” Banerjee
said.

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She claimed that the Centre did not provide any aid to West Bengal
when cyclone Amphan wreaked havoc in the state. She also accused Prime Minister
Narendra Modi of wrongly claiming that employees in West Bengal do not get
salaries properly. She alleged that it is the Centre that is selling off BSNL,
SAIL and privatising the Railways and insurance companies.

Raking up the outsider issue, the TMC supremo claimed that the BJP is a
party of Gujarat and Delhi, which is bringing in National Register of Citizens
(NRC) and National Population Register (NPR).The state chief minister asserted
that she will not allow these in West Bengal.

“People from Gujarat will not rule Bengal, the Trinamool Congress
will rule Bengal,” Banerjee said at the rally held ahead of the assembly
elections in the state due in April-May.

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Banerjee said that the turncoats are free to join the BJP.

Alleging that some people are joining the saffron party out of fear that
they could be implicated in cases related to smuggling of cattle or coal,
Banerjee said, “The BJP seems to be a washing machine, those having dirty
hands emerge clean after joining it.”

She also attacked the Congress and the Left, which will contest the
assembly polls jointly in the state.