With the Trinamool Congress [TMC] leadership facing the heat after the arrest of two of its heavyweight leaders, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on August 29 said that attempts are being made by the Bharatiya Janata Party [BJP] to spread canards against her and paint everyone in the party as “thieves”.
“If Partha Chatterjee has indulged in corruption, law will take its course, But Partha is a thief, Bobby (Minister Firhad Hakim) is a thief, Aroop (Minister Aroop Biswas) is a thief, Abhishek (Banerjee) is a thief. I am also a thief. We are all thieves and you are saints,” the TMC chairperson said addressing a gathering of the party’s student wing in Kolkata.
Ms. Banerjee said that If she wasn’t in politics and had not occupied the ‘chair’ then the manner in which the entire TMC is being branded as corrupt she would have asked her sisters to “snap the tongues of those trying to slander us”.
