Mamata Banerjee challenges Prime Minister Narendra Modi's claim of saffron party win

Khanakul (WB), April 4

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday wondered whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi was “God or a superhuman” to have made claims of a BJP triumph in the Assembly elections, six phases of which still remained.

The TMC chief, without naming the Indian Secular Front (ISF) or its founder Abbas Siddiqui, said the BJP was giving money “to a person” to eat into minority votes.

“What do you (Modi) think of yourself, are you God or superhuman?” Banerjee said, referring to remarks by the PM at public meetings that he would attend the oath-taking ceremony of the BJP government in Bengal and request it to implement the PM-Kisan Nidhi scheme as early as possible.

She claimed the PM breached the model code of conduct by “asking officers of the state government to be ready to attend the oath-taking ceremony.” Addressing back-to-back rallies in Hooghly, Howrah and South 24 Parganas districts, where Assembly constituencies are set to go to the polls on April 6, Banerjee said, “We will not invite you (Modi) for the swearing-in.”

The TMC supremo alleged that Modi’s recent visit to Bangladesh to commemorate its first PM Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s birth centenary had led to “rioting” in the neighbouring country. — PTI

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