Accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government at the Centre of ‘saffronisation’, including the jersey of the Indian cricket team, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said that India would have won had the final match been held at Kolkata’s Eden Garden or at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium.
“I still feel India would have won the finals had the match taken place in Kolkata [Eden Gardens] or Wankhede [Stadium]. Our players are so good in the game. They have changed the practice jerseys to ‘gerua’ [saffron] colour. They had even said that the match cannot be played in blue jerseys. It was because the players objected that they refrained from changing the uniform altogether,” Ms. Banerjee said addressing her party workers at Kolkata’s Netaji Indoor Stadium.
The Trinamool Congress chief claiming that “sinners carry misfortune wherever they go” while referring to the BJP. A few days ago Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, in a poll speech in Rajasthan, had used the panauti (jinx) barb at Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
