"No one can defeat us": TMC leader Firhad Hakim slams Suvendu Adhikari's remarks

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], March 12 (ANI): Trinamul Congress (TMC) leader and West Bengal Minister Firhad Hakim on Wednesday slammed the BJP, calling it a party of hooligans and asserting that No one can defeat TMC and that BJP will be wiped out from West Bengal in the upcoming assembly elections.
"BJP is a party of hooligans. No one can defeat us. BJP will be wiped out from West Bengal. They only do politics of dividing. All this does not happen in Bengal. In Bengal, we are all together," Hakim said.
His comments came after West Bengal Assembly Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday said that the BJP will defeat Mamata Banerjee and will throw out the Muslim MLAs of her party from there.
"We will defeat Mamata Banerjee and when the BJP government comes, we will throw out the Muslim MLAs of her party from here," Suvendu told the media.
Union Minister and West Bengal BJP President Sukanta Majumdar on Wednesday refrained from commenting on Suvendu Adhikari's controversial statement, saying he would first speak to the Leader of the Opposition to understand the context.
"I can not make a statement on this issue because I want to speak to Suvendu Adhikari first about what he said exactly. Given the way that BJP leaders are continuously suspended and harassed in the assembly, it is understandable why he made such a statement," Majumdar told ANI.
TMC MP Saugata Roy has strongly condemned Suvendu Adhikari's remarks, calling them "communal" and asserting that the BJP will never come to power in West Bengal.
"Suvendu is daydreaming. He is making communal statements. They (BJP) will never come to power in West Bengal," Saugata Roy said.
TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee slammed Suvendu Adhikari's remarks and said that if the BJP hated Muslims, they should remove them from voter lists.
"He has a habit of dreaming, let him dream. Is it right to do Hindu-Muslim like this in the country? If BJP hates Muslims so much, then they should expel all Muslims from the country and also remove Muslims from the voter list. They are the leaders of the country; can they say this? They have no culture and education. They only say Jai Shri Ram. They are mafia," Banerjee said. (ANI)