Tripura CM Biplab Deb said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has not only planned to expand across the country but also in neighbouring nations like Nepal and Sri Lanka. Biplab Deb has run into another controversy over his remarks on politics and policy, and this time it is international politics.
While speaking at a BJP event in Agartala, Deb said that Amit Shah, who was then BJP national president talked about ‘overseas’ expansion after winning in all the states in India. Biplab Deb said Home Minister Amit Shah has plans to set up BJP governments in Nepal and Sri Lanka.
“We were talking in the state guest house when Ajay Jamwal [North-East Zonal Secretary of BJP] said that BJP has formed its government in several states of India, reply Shah said, ‘Now Sri Lanka and Nepal is left. We have to expand the party in Sri Lanka, Nepal and win there to form a government’,” Deb said quoting Shah.
The chief minister further went ahead to praise Shah’s leadership for making the BJP the ‘world’s largest party’. He said the BJP will change the trend of change of government between the Left and the Congress every five years in Kerala and emerge as the winner in the southern state as well.
He also stated with confidence that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress will be ousted from Bengal by BJP in the upcoming polls. He affirmed that the BJP will emerge triumphant in all states that go to polls in the coming months. “The people of Bengal will soon say goodbye to Mamata [Banerjee] didi, as both Modi and Amit Shah have reached the state,” Deb said. “This time the government in Tamil Nadu will be formed by the BJP only, Lotus will bloom across the country.”
Biplab Deb who has often been caught on the wrong foot had earlier stirred a controversy by saying Punjabis and Jats are physically strong but less brainy while Bengalis are known to be very intelligent.
Addressing a program at the Agartala Press Club on Sunday, Deb had said every community in India is known for its certain type and character. “For Bengal or Bengalis, it is said that one should not challenge them when it is regarding intelligence. Bengalis are known as very intelligent and it is their identity,”
In another incident, his comments in April 2018 that internet and satellite communication existed in the days of the Mahabharata were shared widely on social media. “The Europeans and the Americans may claim that it is theirs, but it is actually our technology,” Biplab Deb had said.
