Bankura (West Bengal): Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Thursday that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is insulting the Indian Constitution by stating that she is not ready to accept him as the Prime Minister of the country.
Addressing a rally here, Modi said “Didi (Banerjee) is publicly saying that she is not ready to accept the country’s PM as the head of the nation, but she feels proud in acknowledging Pakistan PM as that country’s Prime Minister.” He added that Banerjee was insulting the Constitution out of anxiety of losing the general elections.
The Prime Minister also informed the crowd that he had tried to contact the Chief Minister to discuss cyclone Fani but could not do so as his calls were not returned.
Banerjee had earlier said in a rally that she does not accept Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister of the country describing him as the ‘expiry PM’ and that she will talk to the new Prime Minister after the election results. She had also said that no help and relief were forthcoming from the Centre after cyclone ‘Fani’.
“She (Banerjee) did not take calls from me during the cyclone. The Central government wanted to sit with officers of West Bengal to discuss the situation, but Didi did not allow that too,” Modi said.
“She is not interested in the betterment of the state, but in that of her family, nephew and tolabaj (extortionists) of her party,” the PM added.
Modi said that how much the Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo is worried can be understood by the language being used by her. “She is now talking about stones and slaps against me,” Modi said. “I am used to abuses, I have now got the ability to digest abuses from dictionaries from around the world,” added Modi.