Hooghly (West Bengal) [India], January 18 : Asserting that "change is necessary" and no one can stop it, Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar on Sunday said that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is working like a "speed breaker" in West Bengal.
Speaking to ANI, Majumdar hailed PM Modi and said that without fixing law and order, investment cannot be done in Bengal. He added that after winning the 2026 assembly election, the prime minister will work for development, and industry will also be set up.
"Today, Prime Minister Modi has laid out everything before the people of West Bengal--that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is working like a speed breaker in Bengal. He said that investment in Bengal will happen only when law and order are in place. Without fixing law and order, investment cannot be done. Change is necessary, and no one can stop it," the Union Minister said.
Earlier today, while addressing a massive public rally in Singur in Hooghly district, Prime Minister Narendra Modi hit out at CM Mamata Banerjee, asserting that West Bengal is ready for "paltano dorkar" (needed change) and to bid farewell to the TMC's "mega-Jungle Raj".
Recalling the NDA's landslide victory in the Bihar assembly elections last year, again stoping return of RJD's "Jungle Raj", the Prime Minister expressed confidence that West Bengal would be next.
PM Modi said," The BJP and NDA have once again stopped the return of Jungle Raj in Bihar, and West Bengal is also ready to bid farewell to TMC's mega-Jungle Raj. This massive public tide in Singur, this energy and enthusiasm of all of you, is telling the new story of West Bengal. Everyone has come with the same feeling, the same hope that we want real change. Every single person wants to end the 15-year jungle raj."
Calling for an end to "utter lawlessness" under the TMC government, PM Modi said, "It is very necessary for TMC's reign of jungle raj to end in Bengal and for BJP's good governance to come. For this, we will have to follow the path shown by Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar."
The Prime Minister also accused the TMC of compromising national security by facilitating infiltration. "The TMC government is playing with the security of West Bengal and the country as well. TMC provides all kinds of facilities to infiltrators here. It holds protests to protect infiltrators," he said, adding that despite repeated letters from the Centre over the past 11 years seeking land for border fencing, the TMC government had failed to act.
Stressing the need for a "double-engine" government, Modi said West Bengal could achieve rapid development only if the BJP is in power in the state as well.
"Wherever there is a double-engine BJP government, remarkable progress is being made. Let me highlight the success of the Har Ghar Jal Scheme. In Tripura, under the previous government, only 4 out of every 100 households had piped water. Today, under the BJP government, 85 households out of 100 receive piped water," he said.
Before addressing the rally, PM Modi laid the foundation stone of, and flagged off development projects worth more than Rs 830 crore, including the Extended Port Gate System and the Jayrambati-Barogopinathpur-Maynapur rail line at Singur in Hooghly district.