Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee today dismissed the possibility of the BJP coming to power and Narendra Modi becoming the prime minister after the Lok Sabha elections, saying it would not be easy for them to get the requisite numbers to form government.
Taking a dig at the hullabaloo over Narandra Modi, Banerjee said, "BJP may have enough money for advertisements, but they wont' come to power. I was a seven-time MP and so far as I understand politics, BJP has no chance to come to power."
"I see some people are saying that the BJP is coming to power. Even before the elections, some are chanting NaMo, NaMo as if the prime ministerial candidate is going to become the prime minister. I don't agree. Our understanding of national politics is no less than others. It is not that easy," Banerjee said.
Addressing her party's election campaign at Pailan in South 24-Paraganas district, she expressed surprise. "Where will they (BJP) get the numbers? As the days will pass, the arithmetic will become hazy," she said, adding that BJP hardly had that strength in many states like West Bengal, Odisha and Tamil Nadu and Bihar.
"We will not allow divisive politics. For just one seat in (Darjeeling) Hills, they are trying to divide the state," Banerjee, the West Bengal Chief Minister, said about BJP taking Gorkha Janmukti Morcha's support in the Darjeeling Lok Sabha seat for its candidates.
She claimed that neither the Congress nor the BJP, but the Federal Front would run the government at the Centre after the general elections.
"This time, it will be neither the BJP nor the Congress, but a Federal Front which will be able to give stable government. We will emerge as the third largest party in the country after elections," she said.
Dissmising any prospect of the Third Front becoming a viable alternative, Banerjee in an obvious dig at the Left, which suffered a jolt after the seat-sharing fiasco with AIADMK, such a front was "opportunistic" and it would not be able to provide a stable government in the country.
"From our experience we have seen they do no good," she said.
