Mamata Banerjee to fund election campaign with proceeds of her paintings

She pointed out that the chit fund companies flourished during the 80s and their failure to put up a strict law against these Ponzi companies, she said, "Once the Bill which we have passed is enacted, the government would confiscate the property of the chit fund companies and refund the investors."

The TMC supremo said she had started painting and would fund election campaign with the proceeds of her paintings.

Addressing his party members, she said, "No one will go to anyone for collecting subscription. If anyone does and if anyone gives, they themselves will be responsible for that," albeit adding that there were people who loved the TMC and provided them with festoons, hoardings and loudspeakers during election campaign.

Looking at the overcast weather, she cut short her speech and was in a hurry to exhibit newspaper cuttings and magazines that had pictures of CPM leaders with chit fund companies' heads and advertisements of those companies.

Her language and the mode of attack was very similar here. She talked about the Bill that the Left government had sent to the Centre which was "faulty" and "incomplete". Just like what she said the other day, she reiterated that CPM leaders had 'mogoje morubhumi' and 'brain-e-krimi' (brain is dead and worms in brain). Her media bashing, too, continued. Even the crowd on the stage was same.

Last time, she gave Arabul a clean chit and said he had served a 42-day sentence in spite of being innocent in the Arabul-Rezzak Mollah fiasco.

Today, she reiterated it but was quick to add, "Of course not everything he does is right."

Comparing the "damage" that the Left had done to the state, she said two years is not long enough for her government to repair everything.

"If you are in the process of building a house, there are many things that would turn up at the last moment," she said.

She took a dig at the Centre as well.

She said the Congress was hand-in-glove with the CPM before and now that the TMC has pulled out of the Centre, they have tried to stop all the financial aid to the state. "I challenge the Central government. What is your performance?" she said.

She also said, "Don't try to scare me with CBI. You hit me with a ball and I have learnt to hit it out of the field. We have worked our way up."

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