West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday called upon opposition party leaders in the country to unite and start preparing for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections right now and start taking initiatives for building a front of opposition parties.
바카라Democracy in danger. We have to start our planning for 2024 right now. But our phones are all tapped. Even ministers바카라 phones are tapped. Pegasus is dangerous, ferocious. I can바카라t speak to Chidambaram-Ji, Sharad-Ji, or the Shiv Sena바카라s chief minister because our phones are tapped,바카라 she said while calling upon opposition party leaders to start working fast.
Significantly, even though she was addressing the state바카라s people 바카라 virtually 바카라 from the party바카라s flagship event dais, the majority of her speech was in English and Hindi, whereas she is used to delivering this speech mostly in Bengali every year.
바카라We have two years and a half left. We won바카라t gain by allying just ahead of the elections. Every day matters now,바카라 she said, adding, 바카라We have to forget our interests. Our only interest should be in saving the nation and the states.바카라
The TMC wanted this event to turn into a gathering of opposition party leaders from different parts of the state. Since the program was conducted virtually due to the prevailing situation over the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, several senior opposition leaders gathered at the Constitution Club in New Delhi at the TMC바카라s invitation to listen to the speech.
The leaders included Sharad Pawar and Supriya Suley of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), P Chidambaram and Digvijaya Singh of the Congress, Ramgopal Yadav and Jaya Bachchan from the Samajwadi Party, Tiruchi Siva of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam), Keshava Rao of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), Sanjay Singh of Aam Admi Party (AAP), Manoj Jha of Rashtriya Janta Dal (RJD), Priyanka Chaturvedi OF Shiv Sena and Sardar Balwinder Singh Bhunder of Akali Dal.Â
Political strategist Prashant Kishor was beside her at the Kolkata venue.
바카라Let us start working right now to build a front,바카라 Banerjee said, addressing opposition party leaders, adding, 바카라The more we delay it, the more time will be wasted.바카라Â
She even gave an instant proposal of a meeting of opposition party leaders in New Delhi within a week. 바카라I am going to Delhi soon. If Chidambaram-Ji or Pawar-Ji could convene a meeting between July 27 and 29, I will be able to attend it.바카라
Repeating the party바카라s hit 2021 Assembly election slogan 바카라Khela Hobey바카라 (Game on!), she said, 바카라Khela Hobey will now happen in all states.바카라
Taking swipes at the Modi government over the Pegasus snooping controversy, the TMC chief said, 바카라This scandal is bigger than the Watergate. They will not spare anyone.바카라
She also displayed her mobile phone on which she had covered all the cameras with tapes. 바카라You see, I have plastered (read covered) the camera of my phone so that they can바카라t record. This is where the situation has brought us to.바카라
바카라Not just us politicians, you people better be aware that you are all under surveillance. They have entered your phones, too. They know when you are sleeping and what you eat. They are trying to build a surveillance state. Instead of democracy, there is spying everywhere to shut people바카라s mouth.바카라
She alleged that the 바카라election commission became just like a BJP party office바카라 and appealed to the Supreme Court to start a suo moto case on Pegasus snooping or form a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe into the allegations of snooping by the government on political opponents, bureaucracy and the judiciary.Â
