PM Modi Insecure, Did Not Let CMs speak, We Aren’t Puppets: Mamata Banerjee

                                

PM Modi insecure, did not let CMs speak, we aren’t puppets: Mamata Banerjee

 A FORTNIGHT after Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren complained that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would only speak and not listen, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee described the PM meeting with CMs on Thursday as “one-way humiliation”.

“This was not a one-way communication… it was one-way humiliation… One nation, all humiliation,”

 Banerjee told media persons after attending the PM meeting with District Magistrates and some Chief Ministers on the Covid situation.

Mamata Banerjee

“Eto insecure keno je Chief Minister der kotha bolte deoa hobe na? Eto bhoy kiser? Chief Ministers ra puppets noy. Amra bonded labourers noi (Why so insecure that he is not even allowing Chief Ministers to speak. 

What is this fear about? Chief Ministers are not puppets. We are not bonded labourers),” she said.

Describing the meeting as “casual, super flop”, she said, “All the CMs are feeling insulted and humiliated… 

All the CMs were sitting just like puppets. Nobody was allowed to speak. Then how do we speak about the public demands?” she said.

Criticising the Prime Minister for taking the Covid-19 situation “lightly” and “evading” queries from states on vaccines, oxygen and medicines, the Chief Minister said, “Eto bhoy je mukh lukie palie 

jache (He is so scared that he is running away hiding his face).”

“Today, the federal structure is being bulldozed. The Centre has time to build massive buildings and statues but has no time to listen to the Chief Ministers.

 The country is at a critical juncture but the PM is so casual (in his approach).

 Delhi’s Shahenshah is saying sab theek hai (all is well) when everyday people are dying,” said Banerjee.

On May 6, after the Prime Minister spoke over phone with several CMs, Hemanth Soren, Chief Minister, Jharkhand, had said in a tweet,

 “Aaj aadarniya Pradhan Mantri ne phone kiya. Unhoney sirf apne mann ki baat ki.

 Behtar hota yadi woh kaam ki baat karte aur kaam ki baat sunte (The Prime Minister called today.

 He said only what he had in his mind; would have been better had he heard the other side too).