PM Modi Interview: Prime Minister Says TMC Fighting For Survival, Shares Thoughts On OBC Reservation

In a new interview to news agency ANI, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday came out heavily on West Bengal's Trinamool Congress (TMC) saying Mamata Banerjee's party is fight for survival. Confident of saffron party's victory in state, PM Modi said BJP is going to win maximum number of seats in West Bengal and he will retain power with a thumping majority.

"TMC party is fighting for survival in the Bengal elections. We were 3 before the last Assembly elections. The people of West Bengal gave us 80 seats the last time. This time, the best-performing state in India is going to be West Bengal. BJP is getting maximum success in West Bengal. The elections of West Bengal is one-sided and the people are leading it. The TMC is rattled and the attacks are being carried out. The BJP workers are being locked up in jail ahead of the elections. Despite all these, the people are voting in large numbers," PM Modi said.

Replying to Calcutta High Court's recent decision to cancel all OBC certificates issued in West Bengal after 2010, the Prime Minister slammed Chief Minister Mamata Benerjee for "abusing the judiciary" and doing "vote bank politics".

"They have a modus operandi. First, they started the sin of giving it to minorities by making a law in Andhra Pradesh, they lost in the Supreme Court and the High Court rejected it because the Constitution does not allow it. So they cleverly started the game from the back door and these people overnight made all the castes of Muslim as OBCs and they robbed the OBCs of their rights...When the High Court's judgment came, it became clear that such a big fraud was taking place. But what is even more unfortunate is that for vote bank politics, now they are also abusing the judiciary...This situation cannot be acceptable under any circumstances," he said.