Kolkata, Sep 25 (UNI) Apparently targeting the BJP and the CPI-M, Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said many leaders would have been behind bars for their activities had her party practised the “politics of vengeance” after taking over the reins of the state.
Banerjee reminded people that before coming to power in 2011 by defeating the CPI-M-led Left Front that had ruled for 34 years, her party had coined the slogan “badla noi, bodol chai” (we want change, not revenge).
Releasing the festival number of her party’s Bengali mouthpiece Jago Bangla, she took on the opposition, saying “you can abuse us, we are not bothered. Those who are indulging in such things, are most welcome to practise the art if that helps them to sleep in peace.
“We don’t believe in vengeance. We had said we want change, not revenge. So we did not arrest any of those who were…
