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A week after dramatically announcing his resignation from the TMC on the floor of the Rajya Sabha, Dinesh Trivedi on Wednesday launched a frontal attack on Mamata Banerjee’s party, saying its “corruption and violence model” will no longer work and take West Bengal back to “dark days”. The former union minister also termed the “insider- outsider” debate started by Banerjee “antithetical” to Bengal’s liberal ethos.
The former railway minister praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi, hailing his popularity and insisting people have faith in his leadership, but kept under wraps his political plans. Trivedi had resigned from the Rajya Sabha and the TMC last Friday, saying he felt “suffocated” because of the violence going on in West Bengal and his inability to do anything about it.
He also insisted that the rule of law needed to be established in the state for bringing about the “real change”. “In Bengal, we talk about icons and their ideals but what we see is contrary. The (TMC) model of violence and corruption is not what Bengal stands for. This model will take Bengal to dark days. The state has so much potential and we can’t just let it go waste,” Trivedi said in an exclusive interview with PTI.
