We will send BJP to detention camps after 2026 Bengal assembly polls, claims TMC's Abhishek Banerjee
leader
Abhishek Banerjee
on Sunday tore into the BJP, branding it a 'Bangla-Birodhi' party, alleging that it wants to send Bengalis to
detention camps
.
He also claimed that after the 2026
Bengal Assembly polls
, it is the BJP that will be electorally "sent to detention camps and wiped out" from the state.
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"The BJP wants to take Bengalis to detention camps. I want to tell them clearly - after the 2026 elections, it is you whom we will send to the detention camps," the TMC national general secretary said, addressing the TMC's Martyrs' Day rally here.
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Claiming that the BJP is a "
Bangla-Birodhi party
" (anti-Bengal party), Banerjee alleged that it has consistently targeted Bengalis for speaking their mother tongue.
"Just because we speak Bengali, we are being targeted. Why doesn't the BJP take action against Assam Chief Minister
Himanta Biswa Sarma
for his continuous attacks on the Bengali language? It shows their true colours," he asked.
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Banerjee said that if required, TMC MPs would speak in Bengali in Parliament in the ongoing session.
"Let the BJP try to stop us. If needed, we will speak in Bengali inside Parliament during this session and see if they dare silence our voice," he said.
"They won 77 seats last time. In 2026, we will bring them down and wipe them out electorally. From Diamond Harbour, I had predicted they would be reduced to under 50 seats, mark my words, it will happen," Banerjee said at the rally.
The Diamond Harbour MP claimed that he does not go by predictions but by people's voices.
"I don't make predictions. I analyse. I trust the people of Bengal and their sentiments. And this (central) government is torturing people," he alleged.
Banerjee quipped, "Earlier they used to say 'Jai Shri Ram', now they are saying 'Jai Ma Durga', 'Jai Ma Kali'. Mark my words, in ten months, they will start saying 'Joy Bangla'."
He credited Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee
for first branding the BJP as 'Bangla-Birodhi' (anti-Bengal).
"This was not a political slogan, it is the truth for the BJP," he added.
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