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News Desk: Addressing an election rally in West Burdwan on Wednesday, TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee accused the BJP of doing ‘temple-mosque politics’ and also slammed the central government for the worsening covid situation in the country. He even claimed that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has done politics of infrastructure and development and people of the state are getting its benefits.
He said “In Madhya Pradesh-Uttar Pradesh-Gujarat, bodies are being cremated one hand away. The Corona situation is deteriorating. One of the reasons for this is that they (BJP) have been in power for many years in all these states. There they have done temple-mosque politics. Gujarat has a population of 60 million and 18,000 hospital beds. But the population of Bengal is 10 crores. And the number of hospital beds here has been more than 1 lakh 10 thousand. They (BJP) have built temples and mosques. And Mamata Banerjee has built and developed health infrastructure in the state”
Condemning the central Election Commission (EC) for holding eight-phase elections amid growing Covid infection, he said “Mamata Banerjee wrote a letter to the commission to club the last three phases together. So that the meetings are less, the people are less out on the streets. But the commission did not listen to that request. Because BJP does not want a one-time vote. They are doing politics with people’s lives”
