BJP does not respect Gandhi, Tagore: Mamata’s latest swipe at BJP   

In the latest attack on the BJP, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said those who don’t respect Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore are claiming to build “Sonar Bangla”. She also asserted that the land of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore will never allow hate politics to triumph over secularism.

"Those who don't respect Mahatma Gandhi and other icons of the country are talking of building 'Sonar Bangla' (Golden Bengal). Rabindranath Tagore has already created 'Sonar Bangla' several decades ago, all we need to do is to protect the place from the communal onslaught of the BJP," Banerjee said during a rally in Bolapur, following a 4-km roadshow in Bolpur.

The TMC chief also said that the BJP was pursuing 'communal politics' in West Bengal.

“Conspiracies are being hatched to destroy the culture of Bengal. Stop this politics of violence and divisive politics,” CM Banerjee said while addressing her supporters in the Birbhum district.

Mamata has been issuing strong remarks against the Centre ever since Union Home Minister Amit Shah, during his two-day Bengal visit, criticised the Trinamool government severely over various issues. Amit Shah had said that Bengal, under the Mamata regime, has failed to deliver on several fronts.

The TMC supremo also accused the saffron party of “buying” TMC MLAs ahead of next year’s state Assembly elections.

"You can buy few MLAs, but you cannot buy TMC,” she said, adding “the grassroots cannot be eliminated by buying rotten MLAs with money. Do not try to drive a nail into the rock. The nail will break.”

The chief minister held a 4.5 km mega roadshow from Dak Bangla More to Chowmatha More in Bolpur, Birbhum district. The entire stretch was filled with large cut-outs of Mamata Banerjee and Rabindranath Tagore.

Earlier, Home Minister Amit Shah attacked West Bengal the government said that the Gujarat model of development will be implemented in West Bengal if BJP returned to power in the eastern state.

Shah had also slammed Banerjee for her references to BJP as 'the party of outsiders' and said that the next chief minister of West Bengal will be a son-of-the-soil.