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Elephants walk on road and people bark from behind: Union Minister on Mamata’s ‘khela hobe in 2024’ call

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said she and her counterparts in neighbouring Bihar and Jharkhand will form come together with several other Opposition leaders to defeat the saffron party in the 2024 General election.

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Updated Sep 9, 2022, 06:38 IST

Union Minister Shantanu Thakur

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Kolkata: Taking a swipe at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over her 'Khela Hobe in 2024' comment, Union Minister and BJP leader Shantanu Thakur said that "elephants walk on the road and people bark from behind".

Expressing confidence in his party to win the next Lok Sabha elections, the BJP leader said that the Trinamool supremo's comment about removing BJP from the government in 2024 will not happen come true even in dreams.

“Removing the BJP party in 2024, will not happen even in the dream. She should not talk like this, because every politician is a public representative who goes to the Parliament or Assembly after winning and that should be respected, but she takes it as a game, the Union minister said.

Thakur's retort came after Mamata Banerjee said she and her counterparts in neighbouring Bihar and Jharkhand will form come together with several other Opposition leaders to defeat the saffron party in the 2024 General election.

"There is Nitish Kumar in Bihar, Akhilesh Yadav in Uttar Pradesh, Hemant Soren in Jharkhand. We will all unite and defeat the BJP in 2024. Opposition parties will join hands to defeat the BJP. All of us will be on one side and the BJP on the other. The BJP's arrogance, its hope of bagging 300 seats will be its nemesis. 'Khela Hobe' in 2024," Banerjee said while addressing a party programme in Kolkata.

The Trinamool Congress had coined the slogan 'Khela Hobe' (game to be played) in the run up to the 2021 West Bengal election in which the ruling party in Bengal defeated the BJP to storm back to power for the third consecutive term.

Mamata Banerjee said that the saffron party has lost people's confidence and will lose at least 100 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand in the next parliamentary elections.

"The ground for 'Khela Hobe' in 2024 will be prepared in Bengal itself. The BJP will lose 100 seats in these five states I named. They should remember that during Rajiv Gandhi's tenure, Congress had over 400 seats, yet they lost the next elections. BJP leaders' assertion that it would bag 300 seats will also bite the dust," she said.

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