“This was not a one-way communication… it was one way humiliation… One nation, all humiliation,” said the Bengal CM, accusing PM of being “arrogant” and “casual”.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, coming down heavily on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accused him of bypassing the federal structure and humiliating Chief Ministers of states at a recent meeting. She said the Prime Minister did not offer any financial support or even allow any Chief Minister to speak.
Ms Banerjee, who was part of several meetings with the Prime Minister on Covid and had skipped a few, said: “This was not a one-way communication… it was one way humiliation… One nation, all humiliation.”
“Is the Prime Minister so insecure that he didn’t want to listen to the Chief Ministers? Why is he so scared? If he didn’t want to hear the Chief Ministers why call us? He let some District Magistrates speak and insulted the Chief Ministers,” said Ms Banerjee, whose party Trinamool Congress recently won a resounding majority in state assembly elections.
The West Bengal Chief Minister, accusing the Prime Minister of being “arrogant” and “casual”, said: “So many states were represented. No one was allowed to speak. What do they think? Are we bonded labourers or puppets? Only they matter? They are completely demolishing the federal structure.”
“No CM was allowed to speak. Only DMs were allowed… one from UP, Chhattisgarh and Andhra… I am not speaking on behalf of all chief ministers. But what is happening is…. dictatorship, like martial law is going on,” Ms Banerjee added.
This comes just a few days after central investigating agency CBI arrested two of Mamata Banerjee’s ministers in Narada bribery case. In an unprecedented step, Mamata Banerjee was made party to the Narada bribery case by the CBI yesterday and accused of creating terror. Earlier, after the arrest of her party leaders, she had reached the CBI office and had demanded that she too be arrested.
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