In 2026 assembly polls, BJP will get less than 50 seats in West Bengal: Abhishek Banerjee in a scathing attack on BJP in Satgachia
Trinamool National General Secretary & MP
Abhishek Banerjee
said on Wednesday that BJP will get below 50 seats in the coming Bengal assembly polls in 2026
'I promise that in 2026, total number of seats won by BJP will be under 50. In 2021, BJP's count stopped at 77. I had said that Trinamool's seats would increase in 2024, and it turned to be true…. BJP's talkative president Sukanta Majumdar won by 9000 votes. He even dared to organise people against me. If he does politics for 50 years and contests 10 elections, even then his margin wouldn't come near 7.1 lakh, which I got in Diamond Harbour,' Banerjee claimed while speaking in Satgachi today, which is part of his Constituency.
Banerjee , attacking BJP Leader of Opposition
Suvendu Adhikari
, said, 'Suvendu Adhikari claimed that
Mamata Banerjee
would become a grandmother from Didi if he weren't there. He left the party in 2020. After that, how did Mamata Banerjee win in 2021, 2023 panchayat polls? After he joined BJP, the party did not win a single election. BJP lost in all the 11 bypolls in Bengal. They even said that they would conduct Operation Bengal here, which means they will buy MLAs.'
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'West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has become the CM on her own strength, after ousting the 34-year-long CPI(M) government with the people's blessings. He might become a grandfather, but will never be able to remove Trinamool from people's hearts in the next 50 years,' Abhishek said.
Banerjee came down heavily on BJP's attack on Jagannath Temple. 'Those who claim to protect Hindus are mocking the Jagannath Temple. Suvendu Adhikari mocks it. Sukanta Majumdar called it an amusement park. This is what BJP leaders said. I am thankful to Mamata Banerjee and the State Government for the Jagannath Temple, else people would not see BJP's true face,' Banerjee said.
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Talking about the Pahalgam attack, the Trinamool Secretary said, 'The Pahalgam attack occurred on April 22 this year and 26 people were killed by four terrorists who crossed the border with AK-47s and shot them in broad daylight. They escaped, and the Central Government has no clue where they went. Who is responsible for border security and the IB, CRPF, CISF? If you demanded Mamata Banerjee's resignation over RG Kar, why shouldn't we demand Amit Shah's resignation for Pahalgam?'
A book 'Nishobdo Biplab' silent Revolution launched
'After being elected as an MP for the first time in 2014, I held the first
Nishobdo Biplab book launch
event in Amtala in 2015. The book published today will be distributed to all. It consists of 695 pages. When it was first published, it had only 50-60 pages. Later, after being elected as an MP, the work I was able to do has been detailed in this book. It only has details of my work as MP fund of Rs 5 crore. Detailed accounts regarding the same are provided in the book. Apart from this, it also includes details of the works undertaken with the help of various departments of the Maa-Mati-Manush government led by CM Mamata Banerjee,' Abhishek said.
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