Hitting out at West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, Union home minister on Tuesday alleged that she did not attend the Ram temple inauguration ceremony in Ayodhya due to fear of losing out on her 'infiltrator' vote bank.
His remarks came while addressing a rally at Memari in Purba Bardhaman district.
The senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader further said that this Lok Sabha election is about deciding whether people want "parivar raj or Ram rajya" in the country. Meanwhile, he also alleged that the Trinamool Congress (TMC) wanted to "protect the Sandeshkhali culprits", but the BJP will punish them.
"Mamata Banerjee and the TMC leaders didn't attend the Ram Mandir consecration program, as she was afraid that infiltrators, who are her party's vote bank, might get offended," Shah said.
Shah's remarks came days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'wealth redistribution' statement which had sparked a massive controversy.
Modi, while addressing a rally in Rajasthan's Banswara, had suggested that if the Congress came to power, it would redistribute the wealth of people to Muslims and cited former PM Manmohan Singh’s remark that the minority community had the first claim on the country’s resources.
“This urban-naxal mindset, my mothers and sisters, they will not even leave your ‘Mangalsutra’. They can go to that level,” Modi had said.
“The Congress manifesto says they will calculate the gold with mothers and sisters, get information about it, and then distribute that property. They will distribute it to whom – Manmohan Singh’s government had said that Muslims have the first right on the country’s assets,” he claimed.
Following his remarks, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge wrote to the PM and sought time from him to explain in person his party's manifesto titled 'Nyay Patra'. Kharge, in his two-page letter, told the Prime Minister that he is being misinformed by his advisors about things that are not even written in the Congress' manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections 2024.
"The Congress 'Nyay Patra' aims at providing nyay (justice) to the youth, women, farmers, laborers, and marginalized people across all castes and communities," Kharge said. "You are being misinformed by your advisors about things that are not even written in our manifesto. I would be more than happy to meet you in person to explain our Nyay Patra so that as the Prime Minister of the country, you don't make any statements that are false," he added.
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