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Mamata Banerjee: “I formed an INDIA alliance in Bengal; don’t waste your vote on Congress.”

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee declared that the opposition front in the state has disintegrated and criticized the CPI (M) and Congress, the opposition bloc’s INDIA partners, for “joining hands with the BJP” in West Bengal on Thursday.

Additionally, the Chief Minister asked voters not to support the Congress and the CPI (M). She was speaking at a Murshidabad polling campaign event.

“In West Bengal, there is no INDIA alliance. I was a major player in the opposition alliance INDIA’s inception. I even came up with the alliance’s name. However, the CPI (M) and Congress in West Bengal are BJP employees, according to Mamata Banerjee.

“Don’t cast your vote in favour of the Congress and the CPI (M) if you are hoping to defeat the BJP,” she stated.

In defiance of the Congress leadership’s attempts to broker a seat-sharing arrangement, Mamata Banerjee declared earlier in January that her party will run alone in West Bengal for the Lok Sabha.

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Mamata Banerjee declared that the violence in the Murshidabad area was “pre-planned” and accused the BJP of encouraging violence during the state’s Ram Navami celebrations.

However, the BJP retaliated against Mamata Banerjee, claiming that she ought to answer for her failure to shield Bengali Hindus and that she was accountable for the violence that occurred during the Ram Navami celebrations in the district of Murshidabad.