Citing example of people from Assam coming to the state after violence in that state, she said “I will keep them, I will provide them food and clothes and allow them to stay as long they want.”
“If they dare to touch a single citizen of Bengal, we will not sit silent,” she said, adding “Gandhiji, Bhagat Singh, Netaji, Maulana Azad - they never talked of any particular community.”
Targeting BJP Prime Ministerial candidate, she said “He is nobody. Do not forget that you are Chief Minister of a state which is smaller than West Bengal. You have 28 MPs. We have 42.”
Banerjee said “I am in politics for long. Everyone is equal to me, she said underlining that Gujaratis, Punjabis and Biharis lived in West Bengal.
“Learn from Bengal. Have you ever made a Bengali MP or MLA in your state? I have made Dinesh Trivedi (former railway minister) a party MP, she said.
“Becoming PM does not entitle him to interfere into the state's rights. Bengal has a democratic government and we will decide what needs to be done for the state, she said. “BJP can never become a banyan tree. They are not inclusive,” she said.
She also alleged that the BJP was spending an ‘unimaginable amount of money to create a gas balloon'.
