It has been an event of one more face-off between the Centre and the state of West Bengal. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on a go to to Odisha and West Bengal on Friday to evaluate the harm attributable to Cyclone Yaas. After ending his Odisha leg of the tour, when PM Modi arrived in Bengal, chief minister Mamta Banerjee, who was current on the premises, didn’t come and obtain him on the airport.
Sources mentioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankar, together with Union Ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and Debashree Chaudhari, had been made to attend for half an hour earlier than the Banerjee briefly confirmed up. Those current within the assembly inform us the Banerjee stormed into the assembly just for a couple of minutes and handed over a bunch of papers to the prime minister as an evaluation of the harm attributable to the cyclone earlier than excusing herself and speeding out citing sure beforehand deliberate commitments.
What got here as a much bigger shock is that regardless of the presentation being loaded on the display, Banerjee didn’t permit the chief secretary or the house secretary to even do a presentation earlier than the prime minister. Critics name this an instance of deep-rooted conceitedness and disrespect for the best chair within the Government of India.
This is the most recent flash within the pan so far as Banerjee and her face-off with Prime Minister Narendra Modi is worried.
But is it the primary time? The reply is actually no.
Banerjee had expressed displeasure for not being allowed to talk on the assembly of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the district magistrates of various States on May 20 the place different chief ministers had been additionally invited.
A visibly upset Banerjee attacked the prime minister calling this assembly a flop present and one-way site visitors the place she as a chief minister was insulted. Interestingly, no different chief minister spoke at this assembly, or within the earlier assembly, which was held on May 18, with chief ministers of another states.
Sources within the authorities had mentioned that the district Justice of the Peace of North 24 Parganas was meant to talk on the assembly however he was, nonetheless, blocked by Banerjee saying that if she was current she would communicate.
Banerjee had expressed her anger publicly in opposition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier too, on January 23, 2021 on the Victoria Memorial the place the one hundred and twenty fifth start anniversary of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose was being noticed.
Objecting to the welcome by slogans of ‘Jai Shri Ram’ by BJP supporters, Banerjee, who was current on the dais with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, refused to talk when her flip got here. She protested saying that shouting such slogans at a authorities programme was an insult to an elected chief minister and her place.
Sources within the authorities mentioned that out of six to eight conferences known as by Prime Minister Modi within the final 12 months on Covid, the TMC chief has attended simply two. This additionally features a assembly that was held amid election campaigning the place Mamata had refused to attend a gathering citing election marketing campaign precedence.
In December 2014, Banerjee had given a miss to the planning committee assembly known as by the prime minister. Also in July 2015, when the federal government had known as a gathering of all chief ministers to debate the land acquisition invoice situation, Banerjee gave it a miss.
In June 2019, Banerjee skipped the assembly of the Niti Aayog governing physique. In the identical month, when the prime minister had known as for a gathering of all social gathering presidents to debate the ‘one nation one election situation and to have a look at the potential for placing that into observe with the consensus, the TMC chief together with DMK chief MK Stalin and TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu had chosen to skip that assembly.
Early this 12 months too in February, Banerjee had skipped the Niti Aayog assembly chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Banerjee has been a fiery fighter. She has simply been elected because the chief minister of Bengal for the third time period in a row. Her utter disdain for the BJP management, particularly within the backdrop of the bitterly fought Bengal elections, has been out within the open.
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