New Delhi: In an escalation of the continuing face-off between the Centre and the West Bengal authorities, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s authorities accusing PMO of spreading “fake and one-sided news” within the media.
The blowout was a results of tussle over a overview meeting on Cyclone Yaas the place the CM purportedly saved the Prime Minister ready.
Banerjee, in a virual press convention within the state capital, claimed that the PM’s workplace was getting used to tarnish her picture. “They humiliated me by working one-sided info circulated by PMO. Please don’t humiliate me,” she mentioned.
On the difficulty of her determination to skip overview meeting with Modi on cyclone Yaas devastation, she mentioned, “I had different conferences to attend, and I took PM’s permission earlier than leaving.”
“By the time were reached the place where the PM-CM meeting was to be held, we found out that the PM had already arrived and that there was a meeting going on. We were asked to wait outside, told that there will be no entry at the moment because a meeting is going on. We waited patiently for a while. Then, when we asked again, we were told that no one can enter for the next one hour,” she mentioned.
Later when she reached the convention corridor, the PM was in a meeting with the Honourable Governor, central leaders and even some MLAs of the opposition social gathering, Banerjee mentioned.
“This was clearly against the brief. It was supposed to be only a PM-CM meeting. So, we decided to submit our report to the PM and then with the Prime Minister’s permission we went to Digha. I sought the Prime Minister’s permission three times,” she mentioned.
Further, she mentioned, “Bengal is my priority and I will never put it in danger. I will remain a security guard for the people here. If the Prime Minister asks me to touch his feet for the welfare of Bengal people, I am ready to do that; but I should not be insulted.”
She additionally appealed to PM Modi to finish political vendetta and, withdraw the order recalling West Bengal Chief Secretary Alapan Bandopadhyay and permit him to work for COVID-infected. The Centre on Friday night time sought providers of the Chief Secretary and requested the state authorities to relieve the officer instantly.
The face-to-face encounter on Friday was the primary between PM Modi and Banerjee for the reason that April-May meeting election that the Chief Minister’s Trinamool Congress social gathering received, regardless of a no-holds-barred marketing campaign marked by in depth poaching and coarse rhetoric.
