In the run-up to the third phase of polling in West Bengal on Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a scathing attack on Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, urging Muslim voters to support his party in the ongoing assembly elections. Prime Minister Modi said that Mamata’s statement was a clear indication that she had also lost the support of minority voters.
Addressing a rally in Cooch Behar, PM Modi said that had BJP made such an appeal to Hindus it would have received severe flak from the media and as well as the Election Commission.
“Didi recently asked all Muslims to vote en bloc for her. It shows that the Muslim vote bank is slipping out of her hands. Had we said the same thing that all Hindus should unite, everybody would have criticised us. The EC would have sent us notices. We would have been censured,” PM Modi said.
“There is no need to trouble God to find out who is losing and who is winning. Janata Janardhana (public), in the form of God, has given their response, it is known which way the wind is blowing. Didi’s exit is imminent. That is clear after the first two phases of polling,” he added.
Later speaking at a poll rally in Howrah’s Dumurjala PM Modi said the Bengal CM was ‘heaping abuse’ on him as she can foresee her defeat.