Kolkata, May 17: Former Chief Minister of West Bengal and Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee has launched a scathing attack on the state’s new government. She stated that bulldozer politics does not work in Bengal. In a post on the social media platform X, she expressed that the dignity of the people in Bengal is under attack.
Banerjee emphasized that from homes to street vendors, the poor are paying the price for political arrogance. She declared that bulldozer politics has no place in Bengal. “On the land of Tagore and Netaji, governance cannot be carried out through fear, force, and destructive campaigns against ordinary citizens,” she asserted.
She further remarked that what we are witnessing today is an assault on the dignity of the people of Bengal—daily wage laborers, roadside vendors, small shopkeepers, and struggling families who have built their lives brick by brick. The large-scale eviction campaigns around Howrah Station, rising discontent and anger on the streets of Tiljala and Park Circus, and the growing despair among those suddenly rendered homeless and deprived of their livelihoods reveal a government obsessed with appearances over humanity.
The TMC chief stated that a government that demolishes first and listens later has forgotten the very soul of Bengal. True progress is measured by how a state treats its most vulnerable citizens, not by how quickly it can erase them. In a state built on culture, compassion, and resistance to oppression, bulldozer governance cannot prevail.
Meanwhile, Giyasuddin Molla, a former three-time MLA and member of Mamata Banerjee’s previous cabinet, has filed a complaint against party General Secretary and Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee, as well as police officer Mithun Kumar Dey, at a local police station in the Magrahat (West) assembly constituency of South 24 Parganas district.
Confirming his police complaint on Sunday, Molla stated that he had remained silent due to fear of police action and harassment from his own party. Molla, a former MLA from Magrahat (West) and former minister for minority affairs and madrasah education in West Bengal, said, “I was living in fear, which is why I did not have the courage to speak up. I was afraid that my own party workers might attack and harass me. However, I am now filing a complaint with the police because I trust the administration led by the new Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari.”
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