Intellectuals not behind my success: Didi
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said that it was wrong to think that the campaigning by intellectuals and prominent members of civil society was responsible for her victory in 2011 Assembly election.
On Thursday, famous filmmaker Aparna Sen had said that the Mamata Banerjee which she had voted to power in the hope of a change in the state was not the same person who was occupying the chair of chief minister today. In an apparent reply to Ms Sen, Ms Banerjee said: “Some people are hatching conspiracies from the morning to evening against the government. Some people are saying that this is not the pariborton they had desired. They had participated in one or two rallies towards the end. I have come to this position through a 35-year long struggle with the sacrifice of 55,000 of our party workers.”
Actually, she is peeved with a section of intellectuals like Aparna Sen and Sankha Ghosh who had passionately campaigned for pariborton, but who had now started criticising her government. Ms Banerjee continued to defend her government’s handling of rape cases in the state and accused the Opposition and media of ganging up against her.
“Our government is doing such a fine job. But the CPI(M), Congress, BJP and some television news channel have joined hands and are systematically spreading canard against the government,” she added.
Ms Banerjee was addressing a panchayat election rally at Asansol. Clearly rattled by the growing criticism over her mishandling of Kamduni incident, Ms Banerjee said that the media and Opposition were going berserk over one or two incidents of rapes. “TMC was not involved in the rape. What should be taken note of is whether the government took action or not. The government arrested the culprits within 24 hours,” she added.
Ms Banerjee also reiterated her claim that a conspiracy was being hatched to kill her.
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