The BJP and NDA have stopped the “jungle raj” in Bihar and West Bengal is ready to bid farewell to Trinamool Congress’s “maha jungle raj”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today, throwing an open challenge to the Mamata Banerjee-led party ahead of the Assembly polls this year. Addressing a rally in Bengal’s Singur, the Prime Minister appealed to the people to take a pledge: “paltano dorkar (change is necessary)”.
“It is a BJP government that installed a statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in front of India Gate. For the first time, the contribution of the Azad Hind Fauj was honoured at the Red Fort. An island in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands was named after Netaji. The Bengali language got the status of a classical language when you elected a BJP government in Delhi. It is due to the efforts of the BJP government that Durga Puja got the UNESCO World Heritage tag. These people in Trinamool were partners in Sonia Gandhi’s (UPA II) government. Couldn’t they have got these done? It is Modi who has so much love for Bengal,” he said.
The Prime Minister said it is his government that has celebrated Bengal’s icons such as Raja Rammohan Roy, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar and Swami Vivekananda on the national level. “Because the BJP works on a model of development and heritage,” he said. Bengal, he said, has a lot of potential, including larger rivers, a long coastline and fertile land. “Every district has something special. People here have intelligence, capability and dedication. BJP will enhance every district’s capability,” the Prime Minister promised.