Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday mounted an attack on the ruling Trinamool Congress Government in West Bengal with “playing with national security by protecting infiltrators” for vote-bank politics. With the State Assembly polls a few months away, both in West Bengal and Assam, Modi framed the electoral contest as one between maha jungle raj and good governance” and urged voters to back the BJP’s “double-engine Government” model everywhere.
Addressing rallies for the second consecutive day in poll-bound West Bengal, where he launched several projects, the PM said ending the ruling party’s maha jungle raj was vital to restore law and order, development and investor confidence in the State. Earlier in the day, while addressing a rally on the second day of his visit to poll-bound Assam, Modi said infiltration “kept increasing” during the Congress rule in the State for decades, with illegal immigrants “encroaching upon forests, animal corridors and traditional institutions”.