One lakh of your workers will go to jail: Mamata warns BJP

  Malda (West Bengal), May 4 (IANS): In a fierce attack on the BJP, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday accused the party of “maligning” her state and using obscene language against her. She said if even one of her party workers is sent to jail, a lakh of BJP workers will be put behind bars in the state. “I want to know one thing from the BJP. I want a clarification. I am a citizen of this country and I have every right to know. A BJP leader from Indore for the last two days has been saying that on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s instructions, (Trinamool MPs) Tapas Pal and Sudip Bandyopadhyay were arrested and others will be arrested. Is he God or Allah? Is he CBI chief or director? Or has the PM whispered these things in his ears,” Banerjee said here in an apparent reference to BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya. The Trinamool Congress supremo lashed out at the BJP, which claimed on Wednesday that tribal couple Raju and Geeta Mahali were abducted and forcibly made to join the Trinamool. Banerjee also flayed a BJP leader who compared her to an “eunuch.” “I saw on TV. I am ashamed to say that he was saying ‘Is Mamata Banerjee a woman, or a man, or a eunuch?’. Just imagine. This is the language they are using. I am ashamed that I was born here. So much audacity and arrogance they have. How dare they question my birth, my mother, my father, my religion? How arrogant of them. Don’t listen to a word they say... humble them,” Banerjee said. Addressing a street corner protest, Bharatiya Janata Party’s observer for West Midnapore district Shaymapada Mondal said on Sunday: “Today, you cannot understand whether Mamata Banerjee is a female or a male. Those who have been eunuchs in trains and buses, I will say our Didi (as Banerjee is called) has become an eunuch.”