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The Trinamool Congress on Sunday

hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his remarks that

people have to chose between a 'majboor' (helpless) or a

'majboot' (strong) government in the general elections, and

said the 2019 Lok Sabha polls would be a fight between

dictatorship and democracy.

Criticising Modi for his assertion at the BJP national

convention in New Delhi on Saturday, senior TMC leader

Abhishek Banerjee wondered whether the saffron party-led NDA

government from 1999-2004 or various coalition governments

that it was a part of were "majboot" or "majboor".

"I want to ask them whether the BJP-led NDA government

of Atal Bihari Vajpayee from 1999-2004 was a strong government

or a helpless one? I would like to ask them whether the

governments they had formed in Kashmir with the PDP or in the

north eastern states, were strong or helpless," Banerjee said.

The national president of All India Trinamool Youth

Congress and the nephew of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata

Banerjee, was speaking at a rally here.

"The upcoming Lok Sabha elections will be fight

between an authoritarian rule, and fight to save democracy and

constitution of this country," he said.

At the BJP national convention, the prime minister had

said that the opposition parties were coming together as they

wanted to form a "majboor" government to promote nepotism and

corruption, whereas the saffron party wanted a "majboot"

dispensation for an all-round development of the country.

Several allies have deserted the BJP-led NDA in the

last four-and-a-half-years, the TMC MP said.

"The BJP should stop lecturing us and others on

dynasty politics when several top leaders of their party have

sons and daughters as MPs and MLAs... The TMC doesn't believe

in dynasty politics. Those who are efficient get elected," he

added.