Didi asking Muslims to back her reflects minority votes slipping away Modi

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    Cooch Behar, Apr 6 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi
on Tuesday slammed Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for
seeking
en bloc voting by Muslims for the TMC and said had his party
made a similar appeal to Hindus, it would have been criticised
and censUred.
    Asserting that Banerjee has problems with people
sporting a Tilak and wearing saffron, Modi said the TMC
supremo's appeal to the Muslims reflects that her "minority
votes are slipping out of her hands."
    Claiming a BJP wave was blowing across West Bengal and
his party would form the next government, Modi said Banerjee's
angry reactions indicates that she has lost the polls.
    "Didi recently asked all Muslims to vote en bloc for
her. It shows that the Muslim vote bank is slipping out of her
hands. Had we said the same thing that all Hindus should
unite, everybody would have criticised us.The EC would have
sent us notices. We would have been censored," he said while
addressing an election rally here.
    Taking a dig at Banerjee's comment, rhetorically
questioning whether BJP leaders predicting the party's victory
were gods or superhumans, Modi said no one needs be superhuman
to predict BJP's victory as the wave in favour of the saffron
camp speaks for itself.
    "Didi's exit is imminent. That is clear after the
first two phases of polling," he said.
    Modi also claimed Banerjee had hurt Bengalis' self-
esteem by alleging people come to his rallies for money.
Accusing the TMC dispensation of indulging in rampant
corruption, Modi said: "Didi has started a new tax in Bengal -
'Bhaipo Service Tax'!".
    "For 10 years, your goons continued to loot Bengal,
and you were a mute spectator. For 10 years, injustice with
North Bengal continued, but you chose to be a mute spectator,"
he alleged.
    Modi said, sensing defeat, Banerjee has turned jittery
and was criticising everybody and everything, from EC to EVMs.
    Referring to some TMC leaders' claim that Banerjee
might contest elections from his Lok Sabha seat Varanasi in
2024, Modi mocked the TMC boss, saying this proves that Didi
has accepted her defeat and is looking for another seat.
    "Didi is now looking for a place for herself outside
Bengal," Modi said, who had won the Lok Sabha election twice
from Varanasi in 2014 and 2019. PTI PNT
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