BJP is “quaking in its boots”: Trinamool, in post decrying denial of trains for ‘Jonogorjon Sabha’
In a post on X yesterday, the All India Trinamool Congress alleged that the Narendra Modi government is scared of the support of the people of Bengal that the party has and so, is hell-bent on stifling it any which way.
It posted a letter from the IRCTC which said the latter was unable to keep the party’s request of providing special trains from Alipurduar Junction and New Jalpaiguri Junction to Sealdah and back on March 8.
The request had been made to enable people from the northern regions of Bengal to attend Trinamool Congress’s rally at the Brigade Parade Ground in Maidan, which is being called ‘Jonogorjon Sabha’, or ‘Roar of the People Rally’.
The mass meeting has been called to protest the BJP government’s depriving the people of Bengal in various ways, and to call out to the people of Bengal to vote for the Trinamool Congress in large numbers in the forthcoming general election.
The party posted that the BJP is “quaking in its boots” because “[t]hey know fully well that the #JonogorjonSabha will shake the very foundations of the Modi Govt”. The post goes on to say that “[i]n a tactic similar to the one employed during Shri @abhishekaitc ‘Dilli Chalo’ andolan, they have started cancelling trains meant to carry people to Kolkata”.
The post ends by saying that “the prospect of millions unitedly roaring against them is sending shivers down their spine!”.
Criticising the Union government, Rajya Sabha MP Derek O’Brien questioned whether the Railways would have encountered the same constraints if the request came from Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. In a social media post, he accused PM Narendra Modi’s Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw of pettiness and double standards.
