Amit Shah should not speak like a ‘goon’: Mamata Banerjee

TIL Desk/National/Kolkata/ West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday slammed Home Minister Amit Shah for his “undemocratic” and “unconstitutional” remarks that the Triinamool Congress government won’t survive beyond 2025 if the Bharatiya Janata Party wins 35 seats in the next year’s Lok Sabha polls. She also called for his resignation over the comments he had made during a rally on April 14.

“On Friday, Amit Shah addressed a rally. That is fine. But how can the Union home minister of the country talk about toppling a democratically elected government of a state? Is the constitution of the country being changed?

“He can never make such a comment that if BJP wins 35 Lok Sabha seats, the state government won’t complete the full term,” Banerjee told reporters in Kolkata. The TMC supremo claimed Shah’s remarks prove that “a conspiracy is being hatched to dislodge the state government”, and added that the home minister should not speak like a “goon”.