Clad in her usual modest white sari and chappals, a delighted Mamata claimed that had the elections been “free and fair in the first phase”, they would have won all the 42 seats.
“People wanted an end to 32 years of CPI(M)’s oppression and terror. History was made today. Even during and after the elections so many of my party colleagues died. Our struggle against the CPI(M) will continue,” she added.
Mamata thanked the people of Nandigram and Singur, where for the last three years she has been engaged in an unrelenting agitation against the state Government, and the minorities, and Scheduled Castes and Tribes.
She vowed to work for development of Bengal with agriculture and industry coinciding peacefully. “People voted against the CPI(M)’s policy of grabbing land in the name of industrilisation and bogus development. Our prime agenda is the development of Bengal with the right balance between agriculture and industry,” she said.
She said her motto ‘Ma, Mati and Munush (Mother, land and people)’ was ultimately accepted by the people of Bengal.
(with inputs from Delhi)
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