Mamata Banerjee Launches Meghalaya Campaign, Slams "Delhi, Guwahati Proxy"
NDTV
Mamata Banerjee stated that the Trinamool is the only alternative for the people of Meghalaya who want to change the current "corrupt and discredited" government.
West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress boss, Mamata Banerjee, officially launched her party's campaign for next month's assembly elections in the northeastern states of Meghalaya, Nagaland, and Tripura on Wednesday.
The campaign kick-off took place at a large public rally in Mendipathar, North Garo Hills district of Meghalaya, where Trinamool leaders, including Abhishek Banerjee, were present. It came on the same day when election dates for all three states were announced.
In her speech, Ms Banerjee announced that the Trinamool's primary focus in the elections is to fend off the BJP and its "proxies."
She specifically accused the government of Meghalaya, led by Conrad Sangma of the National People's Party (NPP), of being "a proxy government" for the BJP and "taking dictation" from Delhi and Guwahati - a veiled reference to Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, the BJP's strategist in the northeast.
