Kolkata: Former AICC Chief Rahul Gandhi criticized BJP that it never calls TMC – Mukt Bharat, but it calls Congress Mukt Bharat. He appeared first time in West Bengal election campaign on Wednesday, after the completion of four phases of election. He criticizes the West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC Chief Mamatha Banerjee and the Prime Minister Narendra Modi who campaigned for BJP in West Bengal.

Rahul Gandhi in his election speech in Uttar Dinajpur district on Wednesday criticized that “The people of Bengal gave an opportunity to Trinamool but they failed. Has Mamata built roads… colleges? People have to venture out for jobs… this is the only state where you have to pay ‘cut money’ (bribes) to get jobs”.

He reminded voters the BJP calls for a ‘Congress-mukt Bharat’ and not ‘TMC-mukt Bharat’. He also said “We have never aligned with the BJP and the RSS (the BJP’s ideological mentor). Our fight is not just political but ideological too. For Mamataji, it is a political fight… they have been former allies,” he said, in a reference to Ms Banerjee’s time as a minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Government.

Rahul Gandhi accused the BJP party of wanting to “destroy Bengal’s culture and heritage” nothing to offer except for hatred, violence and divisive politics”. “In every state, they say similar things like ‘sonar Bangla‘ (golden Bengal) but they only divide people on the basis of religion, caste and language,” he added. “In Assam, they are doing this. In Tamil Nadu, they are trying to do the same thing with AIADMK (their allies)”.