KOLKATA: Kicking off Trinamool Congress election campaign in Meghalaya, Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday asked Why should a de-facto prime minister from Guwahati run all the northeastern regions? She likewise questioned why the Assam-Meghalaya land dispute has not been dealt with by the proxy Conrad Sangma-led alliance in Meghalaya.The Election Commission on Wednesday announced that assembly polls in Meghalaya will be held on February 27.
Stating that Meghalaya can not take its own decisions , Banerjee described a conversation she had with someone at the top of the Meghalaya federal government.
I had asked for some police for the ensuing panchayat elections in Bengal.
I was told that he requires to talk to Delhi.
Why should he ask Delhi? He ought to be in Delhi, not Shillong, she said.
Both the chief minister and partys nationwide general secretary Abhishek Banerjee stressed consistently that it will be Meghalaya locals , and not outsiders , who will be running the federal government if Trinamool pertains to workplace in the hill state.
If voted to workplace, individuals of the soil would run the government in Meghalaya, unlike those leaders who run governments from the ivory towers of Guwahati and Delhi, Abhishek said.
Meghalayas former chief minister and TMCs state opposition leader Mukul Sangma likewise raised this problem.
We need to defend our tribe and battle against the BJP, not with mere weapons however with the power of unity.
In the border issue between Meghalaya and Assam, we saw that the lands were offered to Assam.
It is due to the failure of the remote-controlled government.
Over 13,850 acres of land have been offered to Assam and we have to retrieve it.
The celebrations meeting was kept in Mendipathar in the North Garo Hills.
The Garo Hills has 24 assembly sectors in the 60-seat Meghalaya assembly.
Sangma has a strong toehold in this belt, which is now thought to be TMCs strongest base.
I can state that the NPP will not have the ability to win a single assembly seat from Garo, Abhishek said.
Both Meghalaya and Tripura-- which goes to surveys on February 16-- will likewise see TMC taking on the Congress.
Abhishek speaking in Mendipathar, stated, You have seen what took place in Goa (describing the mass defections to BJP after surveys).
A vote to the Congress will be a vote to BJP.
If you desire change then Congress is neither the party, nor the platform to vote.
It is TMC which has actually proven it can single handedly handle the BJP.
CM Banerjee likewise made a 100-day guarantee to individuals to execute the We Card plan, modelled on Lakshmir Bhandar in Bengal.
She also highlighted the monetary addition schemes for females, and students, drawing a sharp distinction from what she called BJPs double-faced technique.
BJP is double-faced.
It states something during elections and does something else after that.
The BJP government at the Centre just offers cash to states ruled by the saffron party, she stated, advising individuals to elect the TMC.