Bengal lagging behind under Mamata rule, says BJP chief Nadda; TMC hits back

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BJP national president JP Nadda on Sunday said West Bengal, once a cradle of the country's renaissance, is now lagging behind because of TMC misrule. Criticising West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for establishing a «jungle raj» in the state, Nadda said she should stop behaving like a «champion of democracy» nationwide. «West Bengal was once the cradle of the renaissance of the entire nation. It was Bengal which showed the path to the entire nation. But in the last few decades, Bengal has been lagging behind. After years of misrule by the Left regime and then by the TMC, Bengal now tops the charts in crime against women, corruption, and unemployment,» he said at a party programme here. «Prime Minister Narendra Modi is taking the country forward and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is taking the state backwards. The misrule of the TMC has led to Bengal lagging by several years,» he said. Nadda said the «jungle raj» is going on in the state under the TMC regime.

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«People are not allowed to speak. There is no democracy in Bengal. Complete anarchy is going on. But Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee talks about democracy in the country and is acting as if she is the champion of democracy. She should first look at her own backyard as she and her party are prevailing over complete lawlessness and jungle raj in the state,» he said. The BJP national president also mocked political parties which bred on dynasty politics and asserted that dynasty politics is a bane for democracy. «We are fighting regional parties, which have turned into dynastic outfits. These parties neither have any principles