Just Like Indira Gandhi, People Won't Excuse PM Modi: WB CM Mamata Banerjee
Banerjee was commenting on PM Modi's handling of the whole farmers' protest issue over the last one year.
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday, 2 December, said that people wouldn't excuse Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the way he handled the whole farmers' protest issue.
Banerjee also compared PM Modi to former prime minister Indira Gandhi, who had declared a state of emergency in the country in 1975.
"Indiraji was a very powerful leader, but the message reached - 'emergency, emergency, emergency'. She apologised in 1977, but people did not excuse her. Our PM has apologised to farmers, but the message has already reached, so he won't be excused either," Banerjee said, as per NDTV.
"Today, he has repealed the farm laws without discussion. But why did he repeal the farm laws... because of the UP election. Everybody knows that. They are also afraid. Don't think they (the BJP) are very safe. Only the country must be saved. Don't worry. Everything will work out," she added.
Banerjee Attacks Both Congress and BJP
Banerjee, who is on a three-day visit to Mumbai and has met leaders of Shiv Sena and the Nationalist Congress Party during the same, has constantly been attacking both the BJP and the Congress party.
On Wednesday, 1 December, Banerjee had said, "there is no United Progressive Alliance (UPA) now", after meeting NCP chief Sharad Pawar at his residence in Mumbai.
Later, she was quoted by PTI as saying: "We want to say BJP hatao, desh bachao."
She also said that the "cruel and undemocratic BJP" had victimised Shah Rukh Khan.
Tensions between the Congress and the TMC have also heightened after 12 out of 17 MLAs of the Congress in Meghalaya recently defected to the Trinamool Congress.
(With inputs from NDTV, ANI & PTI.)
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