Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Abhishek Banerjee unleashed a fiery attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at the TMC’s Martyrs’ Day rally in Kolkata, branding it a “Bangla-Birodhi” (anti-Bengal) party and vowing to “send them to detention camps” after the 2026 Bengal Assembly elections.

Banerjee, the TMC’s national general secretary, accused the BJP of targeting Bengalis for speaking their mother tongue and plotting to send them to detention camps. “After 2026, it’s the BJP we’ll wipe out electorally,” he declared, predicting the party’s seats would plummet from 77 to under 50.

Addressing a charged crowd, Banerjee challenged the BJP’s silence on Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s alleged attacks on the Bengali language. “Why no action against him? It exposes their anti-Bengal stance,” he said. He further threatened that TMC MPs might speak in Bengali during the ongoing Parliament session, daring the BJP to stop them.

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The Diamond Harbour MP emphasized his trust in the people of Bengal, stating, “I don’t predict; I analyse. The central government is torturing our people.” He credited Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for first calling out the BJP as “Bangla-Birodhi,” insisting it’s not just a slogan but the truth.

Banerjee also mocked the BJP’s shifting rhetoric, noting, “They’ve gone from ‘Jai Shri Ram’ to ‘Jai Ma Durga’ and ‘Jai Ma Kali.’ In ten months, they’ll be chanting ‘Joy Bangla.’”

The TMC leader’s bold claims come amid heightened political tensions in West Bengal, with the 2026 elections shaping up as a fierce battleground. Banerjee’s speech signals TMC’s aggressive strategy to rally Bengali pride and counter the BJP’s influence in the state.

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