Amid heightened politico-legal battle with the Trinamool Congress, the ruling BJP on Monday sought to take the battle into the broad opposition camp and said the manner in which Congress and other parties have backed embattled Mamata Banerjee only show that the proposed Gathbandhan, is nothing but an “opportunistic alliance”.
“The fundamental question today is that the Gathbandhan, we see, we can call it an opportunistic alliance,” BJP leader and Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told reporters here.
“It is also the coalition of the corrupt….saving each other,” he said.
“And in doing so all ‘maryada (decorum and propriety)’ have been abandoned,” the Minister charged.
Taking a dig at Mamata Banerjee sitting on a Dharna since Sunday evening despite being the Chief Minister in office, he said, “Sometime back Arvind Kejriwal had done so….and now Mamata Banerjee is following the same”.
Mr Prasad also wondered why Ms Banerjee had maintained silence when several big leaders and sitting lawmakers were arrested. “What is special about this Police Commissioner (Rajeev Kumar) that she has to jump to his defence,” Prasad said.