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West Bengal elections: Calling the Mamata Banerjee government's policies a 'mirror image' of the erstwhile Left Front which 'destroyed West Bengal', Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Sunday said the biggest disappointment has been the Mamata Banerjee led Trinamool Congress's vulnerability to corruption. On a campaign trail in the state for the assembly polls, the BJP leader said one could find a scandal in every transaction by the Trinamool. Here are the top 5 Arun Jaitley quotes: (AP)
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1. "It's not just the chit fund scam or some sting operation or a flyover collapse, you lift one transaction, and you will find a scandal in it," said Arun Jaitley, referring to the controversies surrounding the Trinamool including the multi-crore-rupee Saradha scam and the recent sting operation in which many Trinamool leaders were purportedly caught taking bribes. (AP)
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2. "The biggest disappointment has been the vulnerability of the Trinamool to corruption. Scandals have been emerging one after the other, but these are not isolated incidents. That one or two of the leaders committed mistakes, it's a pattern. All the cases display a pattern," Jaitley added. (AP)
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3. "Instead of giving alternative policies and alternative political culture, the Trinamool followed the Left's mirror image policies. Coupled with that are the syndicates, law and order collapse, vindictiveness, and widespread corruption. "If the Left destroyed Bengal, the Trinamool belied the people's expectations. If the Left (rule) was a nightmarish experience, the Trinamool certainly has been a disillusionment," he said. (AP)
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4. "Taking bribe is not an act of party indiscipline that they are conducting an internal probe. Through an internal inquiry, you can expel somebody from the party. But how can an internal inquiry deal with the penal consequences of bribery? It's a crime which needs to be investigated by police or the CBI," he said. (AP)
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5. "Their leadership is getting tainted in scandals one after the other. Donations to a party are subjected to certain law and regulations which needs to be followed. The donor's name has to be given if the amount is in excess of Rs 20,000. The details need to filed with the Election Commission, have they done that? Let them do that first," Jaitley said. (AP)
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