BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad on Friday mocked West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her comment on vote counting, saying the TMC supremo became chief minister twice by voting EVM, adding that his comments were baseless, ANI reported.
He further said that BJP’s performance in West Bengal Lok Sabha polls will be historic.
“She sometimes complains about EVMs. Mamata Banerjee became Chief Minister twice through EVM voting… Everything is transparent. Proper videography is done. These are baseless comments, defeated and frustrated people talk like this. This time, the Lok Sabha results in Bengal will be historic,” he told ANI.
The comments came after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday: “If the recount is done correctly, the BJP will not come to power this time.”
According to the ANI report, he also criticized former Chhattisgarh CM and Congress leader Bhupesh Baghel for his comment against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 45-hour meditation in Kanyakumari.
“Narendra Modi has only one vision: to advance India, to make India a global power, to make India the third economic power in the world and to uphold the honor of Sanatan values, culture and traditions. He ( PM Modi), a cultural practitioner, sometimes meditates in the Kedarnath cave and today meditates at the feet of Vivekananda, will not understand this, and we do not want them to understand it because the vote bank has a lot of influence on him and his. leaders,” Prasad said.
Reacting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 45-hour meditation at Kanyakumari, former Chhattisgarh CM and Congress leader Bhupesh Baghel on Thursday said: “Someone who is not an ordinary person and sent by God, what need to remember? God? Kangana Ranaut and Sambit Patra made it God… Why is he doing this drama?”
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi has gone to Kanyakumari to get more publicity. When leaders like Dharmendra Pradhan of Orissa, Sambit Patra and Kangana Ranaut compare him with God, then what was the need for him to go to Kanyakumari? Prime Minister Modi should have led the meditation away from the media glare,” Baghel added.
Notably, in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections too, Prime Minister Modi made a similar trip to the Kedarnath shrine before the final phase of elections and meditated in a cave.
Prime Minister Modi will meditate from the night of May 30 to the night of June 1 at the same place where Swami Vivekanand did meditation, the Dhyan Mandapam.
Six phases of the Lok Sabha elections have already been completed and the final phase will be held on June 1 in 57 constituencies across eight states and Union Territories. The counting of votes will take place on June 4.