In a first before a State Assembly election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday wrote an open letter in Bangla saying he was “heartbroken by the deceit and anguish” faced by a cross-section of citizens under the current Trinamool Congress led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. The letter comes months after PM had asserted that Ganga will now flow to West Bengal after massive electoral win in the Bihar Assembly polls, where the RJD-Congress combine was routed in November last year.
It coincides with the State BJP’s ongoing house-to-house Griha Sampark Abhiyan during which party leaders will distribute the PM’s communication to households during their grassroots outreach programme.
“Bengal used to be the nation’s vanguard in both financial and industrial sectors in post-Independence India. It pains me to witness the brittle and sick State it has turned into. It is impossible to describe the irreversible damage which six decades of misgovernance and appeasement politics have caused,” the PM wrote in his letter.