Tarun Chugh lashed out at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over her statement that she would not allow the Waqf (Amendment) Act to be implemented in the State. File
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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national general secretary Tarun Chugh on Thursday (April 10, 2025) lashed out at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over her statement that she would not allow the Waqf (Amendment) Act to be implemented in the State.
He alleged that she is misleading the people, Mr. Chugh also called out Ms. Banerjee for emerging as the “new Jinnah of India”, and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) is playing the same role that the erstwhile Muslim League did before India’s Independence.
Mr. Chugh was in Patna to address the workshop of Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar Samman Abhiyan organised at Bihar BJP State Office.
“The Waqf Act has been implemented in the country and Mamata Banerjee is unnecessarily and absurdly misleading the people. The country functions on a federal structure, the country functions as per the Constitution and the Parliament is the highest empowered body. The Act has been passed and implemented across the country,” Mr. Chugh said while speaking to the press at the party office.
“Mamata Banerjee has emerged as the modern Jinnah of India and TMC is playing the same role that the Muslim League used to do before India’s Independence. Mohammad Ali Jinnah used to spread tension and speak lies; she is doing the same thing. The way two days back, TMC goons attacked the house of a Hindu it proves that TMC is Muslim League of modern India,” he claimed.
Mr. Chugh alleged that she is insulting the Constitution and its federal structure. “She is wearing the mask of secularism for mere vote-bank politics,“ the BJP leader added.
Asked about Rahul Gandhi also calling the Waqf Act “anti-Muslim”, Mr. Chugh said: “Rahul Gandhi is a retarded child. I want to ask him whether Pasmanda Muslims should get their rights or not? Does he want to give the Waqf money benefit collected through Zakat to the land mafia?”
He also made a scathing attack on the Congress and its allies, mainly Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD).
Lashing out at INDIA leaders, Mr. Chugh said the parties of the ‘Indi’ alliance have worked to crush the rights of the backward and deprived sections for years and have conspired against the ideas of Ambedkar.
“Parties like Congress and RJD, which call themselves protectors of Dalits and backward, are actually their biggest betrayers. These parties committed the sin of hanging the reports of Kaka Kalelkar Commission (1956) and Mandal Commission (1980) for years and opposing them in Parliament. From Nehru to Rajiv Gandhi, the Congress leadership opposed reservation and today RJD is worshipping the same Congress,” Mr. Chugh said.
He further alleged that Rajiv Gandhi’s anti-reservation speech in Parliament on the Mandal Commission report and Rahul Gandhi’s advocacy for abolition of reservation on foreign soil expose the mindset of the Congress and its real attitude towards the backward classes.
The BJP leader claimed that for the last seven decades, the Congress has continuously insulted Dr. Ambedkar, the Constitution of India and the spirit of social justice, while the RJD has been doing petty vote-bank politics.
In a sharp tone, Mr. Chugh asked whether this is the same Lalu Prasad who participated in the JP movement opposing the Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi. “If yes, then due to what selfish motive or greed is he today standing with the same Congress which murdered democracy, crushed the Constitution and held the country hostage?” Mr. Chugh said.
He alleged that Indira Gandhi toppled 50 elected governments and about 90 governments were dismissed during the rule of the Congress in total.
Published – April 11, 2025 05:51 am IST
