Mamata Banerjee asks if BJP leaders’ choppers will also be searched, warns of ‘one nation and one leader’ autocracy

Banerjee said the BJP would destroy India’s federal structure and wanted to form an autocratic government. “When I said this everyone said it is not true. Now from their (BJP’s) manifesto, you can see their policy. There is a fish whose head is the CAA, tail is the NRC and stomach is the Union Civil Code. Minorities, tribals, mothers and sisters will not have their rights. What you have to eat in the morning and at night will also be decided by them,” she said.

“If this government returns to power, there will be no election in this country. They will destroy the federal structure. There will be one nation and one leader. An autocratic government will be formed,” she added.

“The BJP is a party of dacoits. Gali gali mein shor hai, BJP chor hain. If they have guts they should publish a white paper on why they did not give MGNREGA wages for two years. They should also publish details of corruption that happened in West Bengal as well as Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra,” she said.

Banerjee once again expressed her fear of possible unrest breaking out in the state on the day of Ram Navami.

Cooch Behar will vote on April 19 in the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections.

Meanwhile, in a post on X, the TMC said, “The chopper was undergoing a trial run at Behala Flying Club for Abhishek Banerjee’s visit to Haldia in Purba Medinipur district on Monday when a team of I-T officials arrived and extensively searched it.”

Abhishek Banerjee wrote on the platform, “Instead of removing the NIA DG and SP, EC and BJP chose to deploy minions from I-T (dept) to search and raid my chopper and security personnel today, resulting in no findings.”

Income Tax Department sources, however, said on Sunday that there was no enforcement action such as a search or survey and that the TMC leader was not even present in the chopper.