PM Modi Slams Mamata Over Cooch Behar Audio Leak, Says ‘TMC Playing Politics With Dead Bodies’

A day after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s audio clip — wherein she is allegedly heard proposing a rally with Cooch Behar victims’ useless bodies– was launched, Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused her of “politicising” the Cooch Behar firing incident wherein 5 folks misplaced lives at Sitalkuchi on April 10.

Addressing a public assembly in Asansol on Saturday, the Prime Minister claimed the Trinamool Congress supremo has an outdated behavior of doing politics with useless our bodies.

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“You might have listened to an audiotape over what happened in Cooch Behar. After the death of five people, Didi is doing politics. In this audiotape, Cooch Behar TMC leader is being told to hold a rally with the bodies of the 5 deceased. Didi, how far will you go for vote bank? The truth is that Didi thought of her political benefit through those deaths. Doing politics on corpses is an old habit of Didi,” PM stated.

His remarks got here after purported audio clip surfaced whereby, Mamata in dialog with TMC Sitalkuchi candidate Partha Pratim Ray, allegedly proposed a rally with the our bodies of Cooch Behar firing victims.

Five folks had been killed in firing by safety forces on April 10 after violence broke out at a polling sales space at Sitakulchi in Cooch Behar district when voting was happening for the fourth part of the Bengal meeting election.

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The BJP has demanded {that a} Special Investigation Team (SIT) should examine TMC Chief Mamata’s purported audio clip on the rally with Cooch Behar firing victims’ our bodies.

Meanwhile, Banerjee on Saturday alleged that her cellphone is being tapped and stated she is going to order a CID probe into it. “I will order a CID probe into the issue. I will not spare anyone involved in such snooping activities. I have already come to know who is behind this,” she stated. the TMC had described the audio clip as “bogus”.