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    PM Modi pitches 6-point 'guarantee' for West Bengal ahead of Assembly polls

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    Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledges a 'double-engine government' for West Bengal post-assembly polls. He promises to remove infiltrators and ensure government employees receive Seventh Pay Commission benefits. Modi also vows to end the 'mafia raj' and 'syndicates' plaguing the state. Corrupt Trinamool workers will face punishment, and all scam-related files will be reopened.

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    PM Modi pitches 6-point 'guarantee' for West Bengal ahead of Assembly polls
    Murshidabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that BJP's 2021 victory in Nandigram will be replicated in Bhabanipur this time and West Bengal will have a "double-engine government" after the assembly polls.

    Elaborating on a six-point 'Modi guarantee' during his Haldia public rally, he has promised to weed out infiltrators, provide government employees benefits of the Seventh Pay Commission, ensure accountability by the new BJP government, replace fear by faith and ensure the safety and security of women. PM also raised the Malda Mothabari incident and called it TMC's mistake and said the TMC was threatening the CRPF.

    Talking about BJP's stand on infiltration, Modi said people who helped infiltrators would be jailed after his party's government comes to power. "Bengal has now become a factory of infiltrators, making fake documents and is engaged in cattle smuggling. Trinamool's politics is based on "fear". Factories, industries and investments prosper when faith is bestowed. Here, nothing happens without cut-money and goonda raj," the PM said. Modi said corrupt Trinamool workers would be punished and all scam and corruption-related files would be opened, and "every injustice committed against our daughters, and every case of rape will be reopened."


    The PM slammed Trinamool for giving reservation based on vote bank and appeasement politics. "The Mahishya Samaj has been deprived (of reservation) as it is not TMC's vote bank," the PM said. "We will establish growth and prosperity in Bengal on the basis of faith. The first step towards this will be to change the "cruel" TMC government from power," Modi said.

    During the rally in Asansol, Modi said people will need the BJP's "good governance" and freedom from the "mafia raj and syndicates" of the Trinamool Congress. Modi claimed that syndicates and the mafia linked to the state government have been looting the state's resources. He warned that all those goons will be held accountable and answerable after the election results on May 4.

    The Congress, Left and the Trinamool Congress have done one thing in common -- destroy the dreams of Bengal, he said.

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