Tribune News Service
Kolkata, May 7
West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, while addressing a meeting at Santura in Purulia district today, attacked Modi saying she feels like giving one “tight slap of democracy” to the PM.
Banerjee said Modi deserved the slap for accusing her party of using extortion money for canvassing. She likened the prime minister to villainous character from the epics Ramayana and Mahabharata.
"When Modi comes to Bengal and says that I am a top extortionist, I wish to give him one tight slap of democracy", Banerjee said and claimed that her party was run with money collected from the sale of her paintings and books.
In the absence of Modi, it fell upon the broad shoulders of Amit Shah, who was here, to turn the heat on Mamata. Addressing an election meeting at Ghatal, Shah ridiculed Banerjee’s assertion that she did not consider Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister. Shah said she should rather prepare herself for another five years with Modi at the helm.
“Mamatadi (Banerjee) has recently said that she does not consider Modiji the Prime Minister. Tell me, Mamatadi, do you have faith in the country's Constitution or not”, Shah asked.
“The Constitution states that whoever is chosen by the people becomes the PM. It does not matter if you accept him or not”, Shah said. “Be prepared for another five years as Modi is going to become the Prime Minister once again”, shah said amid massive chants of "Modi-Modi" by the BJP supporters.
Eight Lok Sabha constituencies of West Bengal, including Purulia and Bankura, are slated to go to polls on the sixth phase on May 12. BJP, it may be mentioned, did well in Purulia in last year’s Panchayat elections. On Monday, Congress president Rahul Gandhi and Banerjee, top leaders of two rival parties, addressed separate election rallies in Purulia district on Monday but neither of them spent any time criticising the other. Both leaders targeted Modi.
Rahul took Mamata Banerjee's name only once when he said she had failed to provide jobs to people. Rest of his address was directed against Modi. “If Modi addressed a rally in Maharashtra, he would be found saying that people from UP and Bihar should not come to the state. Similarly, if Modi addressed a rally in Haryana, he would instigate a clash between the Jats and Non-Jats, Rahul said.
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