Jail me if you can
Cornered on the Saradha scam, Mamata Banerjee came out all guns blazing at BJP on Saturday. Just 72 hours after paying courtesy visits to senior BJP leaders in Delhi, the Trinamool chief sounded the war cry against PM Narendra Modi, accusing his government of pursuing "selective vendetta" against her party.
Mamata dared the Modi government to impose president's rule in Bengal and arrest her. And in a sign of how things are in Trinamool, Mamata taunted the fence-sitters in her party to "go and join BJP". The arrest of Trinamool Rajya Sabha MP Srinjoy Bose has proved to be a turning point in her political trajectory.
"If we are hit, we will retaliate. Let them send me to jail, I will see how big a jail they have," Mamata thundered at a party activists' meet at Netaji indoor stadium in Kolkata.
Mamata claims BJP targeted her because she went to Delhi to attend Jawaharlal Nehru's 125th birth anniversary on the invitation of Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
Sensing the vacillation among a section of her party organisers after BJP's surprising rise in Bengal, Mamata said: "There is no need to fear BJP. Keep up your good work, carry out our development agenda. Those who want to join BJP may leave the party."
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