Kolkata, Oct 5: Amidst dissidence by a section of BJP MLAs and leaders in Tripura, a ruling party legislator Ashis Das on Monday praised West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee.
Das, who was elected to the State Assembly from northern Tripura’s Surma Assembly seat in 2018, reserved for the people belonging to Scheduled Caste, while talking to the media in Kolkata, also criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for “selling out most government properties to the private parties.”
Highly praising TMC chief for her election in the Bhabanipur Assembly bypoll on Sunday by a record vote margin, the BJP MLA said many people and organisations want Banerjee as Prime Minister and her elevation to the post of Prime Minister is very crucial as she is a Bengali.
“Mamata Banerjee is now a very popular political face in India.”
“Once Modi’s messages had stirred the minds of people of all sections across the country. Modi once had said that ‘Na khaunga, na khane dunga….’ but now it has become a popular jumla (joke) in the country,” the 43-years-old saffron party legislator said.
He said that at the centre and the states, the BJP has been running governments in an “autocratic style”.
Das has been in Kolkata for the last two days.
Das and four other BJP MLAs — Sudip Roy Barman, Ashis Kumar Saha, Diba Chandra Hrangkhawl and Burba Mohan Tripura – recently held a big gathering in Agartala and hundreds of BJP local leaders and workers attended the meet.
