Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on April 4 claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had not “forgotten or forgiven” the drubbing his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) received in the 2021 Assembly elections in West Bengal and that is why he had chosen to ignore the State other than when it was time to seek votes.
“The PM has never forgotten or forgiven the people of West Bengal for so decisively rejecting the BJP in the last Assembly election — this in spite of his extensive campaign,” Mr. Ramesh told The Hindu while the Prime Minister was on his way to Cooch Behar in north Bengal to address a rally ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.
“He treats Karnataka too similarly after the people there rejected him and his party in the 2023 Assembly elections. He preaches cooperative federalism but practices confrontational federalism when it comes to non-BJP States,” the Congress leader said.
