Modi is a cockroach says Mamata

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said the BJP will never win West Bengal and Odisha, and dubbed it as “a cockroach dreaming of becoming a peacock by putting on its feathers”.

She said the result in Tripura was due to CPM’s “surrender” and the “failure” of the Congress to agree to an alliance.

The result could have been different had Rahul Gandhi agreed to an alliance with the Trinamool Congress and local hill parties, she said and claimed the poll results will not help the BJP in the upcoming assembly elections in several states.

“There is nothing to rejoice in the win in a state having only about 26 lakh voters and two parliamentary seats with a difference of about only five per cent votes,” Banerjee said reacting to BJP’s win in Tripura ending the 25 year-long Left regime there.

“The CPI-M has done well in the poll. It is a difference of about five per cent votes only. But the CPM in Tripura had never shown any seriousness to resist the saffron party in that state. I don’t know why. We need to analyse this,” Ms Banerjee said.

Despite the BJP’s success in Tripura, “it will not be possible at all to get through in West Bengal and Odisha.
BJP will concede defeat in Karnataka, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. In Gujarat it was a moral defeat for them,” she said.