Modi cites Malda gherao to brand TMC rule ‘maha jungleraj’, frames polls as ‘bhay vs bharosa’

COOCH BEHAR: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday made the Malda gherao of judicial officers the centrepiece of the BJP’s campaign on lawlessness in West Bengal, alleging it reflected the TMC’s “sponsored maha jungleraj” and framing the assembly polls as a battle between the “bhay” (fear) spread by the ruling party and the BJP’s “bharosa” (trust).

Addressing his first rally in Bengal after the election schedule was announced, Modi used the Malda incident to sharpen the BJP’s twin campaign planks of collapsing law and order and alleged demographic change, while also invoking issues like Sandeshkhali, infiltration, corruption and unemployment to attack the Mamata Banerjee government.

Modi cast the coming election as a battle for Bengal’s future and warned that “chun chun ke hisab hoga (all atrocities will be accounted for)” for the alleged atrocities committed by TMC goons once the results are declared on May 4.(PTI)